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

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

InWeb

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…

Recording custom telemetry with Azure Application Insights

InWeb

Azure Application Insights is a powerful monitoring feature within the Azure cloud platform that can provide you with some pretty amazing insights into your web applications. By default, Application Insights captures a plethora of highly useful data points regarding both performance and user behaviour. The analysis of these metrics can assist you with speeding up…

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

InSecurity

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…

Leveraging the DPAPI to encrypt sensitive configuration settings

InSecurity

It is very common that an application will need to store settings in a configuration file and then later retrieve the value of those settings. Quite often, one or more of these settings will be sensitive in nature; such as API keys, database connection strings, or perhaps mail server passwords. Protecting sensitive data is a…

Protecting access to gRPC services with Auth0

InAPIs

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…

How to consume a gRPC service using .NET Core

InAPIs

In a prior post, I introduced the key concepts behind using gRPC to develop an RPC service and walked through the process of creating a sample project. In this article, I build on the previously discussed topics by adding an additional service and a client to the sample project. After reading through the content below,…

Getting to grips with gRPC… A gentle introduction

InAPIs

Before we begin, here’s a quick definition of the term “Get to grips” to mull over. to make an effort to understand and deal with a problem or situation If you’re looking into micro-service communication options for a greenfield project, gRPC is a great place to start. In this article, I take a first look at…

How to generate a random string with C#

InProgramming

On occasion, during day-to-day programming, the problem I am working on requires the generation of a random sequence of characters. For example, when dealing with some sort of account entity, the account might require a unique account reference to be specified upon its creation. Considering this scenario, it would be inconvenient for the end-user to…

Tag: C#

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

Getting up to speed with Azure Cache for Redis

Recording custom telemetry with Azure Application Insights

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

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

Leveraging the DPAPI to encrypt sensitive configuration settings

Protecting access to gRPC services with Auth0

How to consume a gRPC service using .NET Core

Getting to grips with gRPC… A gentle introduction

How to generate a random string with C#

Transforming requests and responses with YARP

Getting started with YARP

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