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Setting up .NET Core Configuration Providers

April 26, 2018 Apr 26, 2018 04/26/18
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ASP Core uses the convenient Provider Pattern to load configuration key/value pairs from various sources and expose those to you as a single Configuration object. This allows you to grab a configuration key like ConnectionString with one line of code regardless of where it was sourced from. However, the configuration API is not available by default in .NET Core Console applications.

AdalException : authentication_ui_failed with ADAL and Xamarin Forms Android

March 10, 2018 Mar 10, 2018 03/10/18
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In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Joe Healy identifies a possible error you may get when working with an Android project on Xamarin Forms. Read about his discovery and eventual solution to fix the SSL/TLS implementation issue.Recently, I was helping a client with an Azure Active Directory integrated project (ADAL not MSAL for some ...

Debugging ASP Core on Linux with Visual Studio 2017

November 10, 2017 Nov 10, 2017 11/10/17
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NET Core and specifically ASP Core is an Open Source, High Performance implementation of .NET that runs on Windows, Linux and Mac. After you deploy your web application to a Linux server it can be difficult to troubleshoot when issues arise. In this article, I’ll show you how to configure your Linux test server and Development environment to allow remote debugging giving you all the greatness of debugging in Visual Studio while your code is running on a Linux server.

Jump-Start: Swaggerizing ASP.NET Core

September 13, 2017 Sep 13, 2017 09/13/17
Pam Lahoud
In his latest blog post, Premier Developer consultant Rob Vettor gives an overview of how to use Swagger with your ASP.NET Core application.As a consumer of an API service, how do you know what functionality the service exposes?Easy answer: Swagger supportSwagger is a framework that enables you to visually discover an API service. With it, you...

Exploring DataTable and SqlDBAdapter in ASP.NET Core 2.0

June 9, 2017 Jun 9, 2017 06/9/17
Pam Lahoud
This post comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Joe Healy. .NET Core 2.0 Preview was released May 2017.  Great timing as one of my customers was inquiring re DataTable and SqlDBADapter support in ASP.NET Core.  Instructions to wire it up are below. Read the rest on Joe’s blog here...

Defining ASP.NET Core Controller action constraint to match the correct action

June 5, 2017 Jun 5, 2017 06/5/17
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When developing Web Api controllers many times we have situations where we need to define similar arguments in different methods. For example, a controller that has 2 methods that query users either by last name or date of birth. The name of the method is different but they both will receive a single argument of type string. When the routing engine can’t determine which action method it should call, a status code of 500 is returned.

Debugging .NET core with SOS everywhere

May 2, 2017 May 2, 2017 05/2/17
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Get some insight into debugging .NET code on non-Windows operating systems with this post from Premier Developer consultants Gustavo Varo and Ben Williams. I have been working more and more with .NET Core and one question I keep getting from our customers and partners is about the debugging experience when using operating systems other ...