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Blazor data binding fundamentals

Data binding is a core feature of practically all front-end SPA (Single-page application) frameworks, including Blazor. Blazor provides lots of useful data-binding features that are enabled by using specific Razor syntax within components. In this article, I will cover the fundamental concepts of data binding with Blazor. After reading the article, you will understand the…

Creating your first Blazor component

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Components are the fundamental building blocks used to develop interactive web applications with Blazor. At their most basic level, they are reusable UI (User Interface) segments that can be composed together to create complex layouts, usually containing code that enables dynamic behaviour. Blazor components (also known as Razor components) are one of the first things…

Getting the path to a C# member via a lambda expression

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Are you looking for a way of getting the path to a C# property, or some other type of object member, as a string and want to do so in a strongly-typed manner? For example, perhaps you are building your own API error response model and you want your error messages to contain member names…

Preventing SQL injection in C# applications

InProgramming Security SQL

SQL injection is a common attack vector that remains one of the most prevalent security risks for applications today. One of the reasons SQL injection attacks are so pervasive is the fact that injection vulnerabilities are very easy for attackers to discover and exploit, sometimes with devastating consequences. On the other hand, mitigating SQL injection…

How to create and load an IdentityServer signing certificate for Azure

InSecurity Web

IdentityServer is the de-facto security token service for ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core web applications and it is hugely popular within the .NET community. One of the most important security requirements to consider when setting up IdentityServer is the creation of a key (typically an X.509 certificate) which is used to cryptographically sign and validate tokens…

Stepping up the security of ASP.NET Core web apps with security headers

InSecurity Web

Now, more than ever before, employing security best practices from the start is an absolute must when developing modern web applications. The threat landscape has evolved continuously over the last number of years, however, so have the protection mechanisms which we as software developers can avail of to guard our applications against attackers. In this…

Getting up to speed with Azure Cache for Redis

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If you’re looking for a caching solution to help speed up a web application and Azure is your cloud platform of choice, it makes sense to use Azure Cache for Redis. Azure Cache for Redis is a secure, scalable, and reliable cloud-hosted caching solution. It is based on the very popular open-source Redis database cache…

Why your ASP.NET Core views are not updating at runtime

InWeb

If you have experience with ASP.NET but have only recently started building web applications with ASP.NET Core, you may have noticed that some of the features you are used to having during development, appear to be missing. One of the first things you are likely to notice when you start off with a new ASP.NET…

How to configure your ASP.NET Web Apps and APIs to require HTTPS

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For any application which is hosted on the web, it is essential that security is built in from the start. Enabling your web application to serve secure traffic over HTTPS and enforcing this policy is one of the first things that you should implement and this is just as important for web apps as it…

Protecting access to gRPC services with Auth0

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Having already introduced the concept of gRPC services and having walked through how to consume a gRPC service using .NET Core, I’m now going to cover the next most fundamental topics; authentication and authorization. For production applications, your API endpoints are normally going to be available publicly and therefore they need to be protected from…

Tag: ASP.NET Core

Blazor data binding fundamentals

Creating your first Blazor component

Getting the path to a C# member via a lambda expression

Preventing SQL injection in C# applications

How to create and load an IdentityServer signing certificate for Azure

Stepping up the security of ASP.NET Core web apps with security headers

Getting up to speed with Azure Cache for Redis

Why your ASP.NET Core views are not updating at runtime

How to configure your ASP.NET Web Apps and APIs to require HTTPS

Protecting access to gRPC services with Auth0

Getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio

How to generate batches of SQL Server INSERT statements with the maximum allowed number of row values

Treat Blazor component Warnings as Errors: Found markup element with unexpected name