Using .NET Core Data Protection is a bit limited. I like how it generates keys and can maintain them, but the storage mechanisms out of the box are fairly limited. Unless you’re using Redis or Azure Stoage, your only option is file system persistence. This isn’t really usable for distributed applications that need to share keys. Ideally, using a SQL server backend would be available, but it’s not too terribly difficult to create one.
.NET Core SQL DataProtection Key Storage Provider using Entity Framework
posted on June 28, 2017 by long2know in Uncategorized
.NET Core LDAP
posted on June 16, 2017 by long2know in ASP.NET, Core
.NET Core doesn’t have built-in support for LDAP (Active Directory). This can be a show-stopper for a lot of projects. It was a bit of a show-stopper for me earlier as well.
So, references to these libraries won’t be available:
System.DirectoryServices System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement System.DirectoryServices.Protcols
But, there are alternatives to mitigate the problem.
AWS ECR, Docker and .NET Core
posted on June 14, 2017 by long2know in Amazon, AWS
Over the past weekend, I was playing around with deploying .NET Core Docker images to Amazon AWS. I wanted to utilize their EC2 Container Repository (ECR) to keep everything self-contained. My initial tinkering turned out pretty well. I’ll have a better walk-through once I have everything working as I want.
At any rate, here are a few notes I made to myself for the steps I went through, which I thought I’d share. These steps detail building/deploying Docker containers to AWS using EC2 with the EC2 Container Repository (ECR). Docker images were made directly from VS2017 using Docker CE (Docker Compose).
.NET Core HTTPS Oddities
posted on June 9, 2017 by long2know in ASP.NET, Core
Earlier today I was running into weird issues detecting whether or not my .NET Core site was receiving HTTPS requests. After much gnashing of teeth, I believe I found a solution.
Deploying .NET Core Applications to IIS
posted on June 7, 2017 by long2know in ASP.NET, Core
Microsoft’s guidance, in regards to deploying .NET Core applications to IIS, is a bit lacking. Throw in a continuous integration tool, like Team City, and it becomes a bit of trial and error to get a .NET Core app deployed to an IIS hosted instance.
Flattening .NET Exceptions and Simple Hierarchies
posted on June 7, 2017 by long2know in ASP.NET
Exceptions in .NET can be difficult to log or inspect due to their hierarchical nature with inner exceptions. Since the InnerException on a given exception is not an enumerated list, it requires a little bit of work to flatten the hierarchy.
Deploying .NET Core to IIS
posted on May 31, 2017 by long2know in ASP.NET, Core
This is a little guide for anyone wanting to deploy a .NET Core Web site to IIS, locally or otherwise. It includes a few pitfalls you may or may not run into.
AngularJS Parsers and Formatters
posted on May 26, 2017 by long2know in angular, plunker
While Anuglar 4.x is all the rage, I continue to also work in Angular 1.x (AngularJS) projects. Earlier this week, a colleague of mine wanted to use an input mask that doesn’t affect an underlying ng-model value. We already had a directive using jquery.input-mask, but that modifies the model value. Formatters and parsers are suited well for this task of separating the view value and model value.
Sharing Cookies and Tokens between OWIN and .NET Core (Part 2)
posted on May 24, 2017 by long2know in Core, Middleware, OWIN
In my previous installment, I focused mostly on sharing Cookies between an OWIN application and a .NET Core application. What happens if you want to utilize the Bearer tokens as well?
Sharing Cookies and Tokens between OWIN and .NET Core
posted on May 23, 2017 by long2know in Core, Middleware, OWIN, Uncategorized
It seems like only yesterday when I setup an OWIN OAuth server to provide single-signon capabilities for all of my apps. Since that time, though, OWIN has kind of fallen to the wayside in favor of newer security mechanisms in .NET Core. However, it is possible to make an OWIN application play nice with a .NET Core application to share cookie-based authentication.