posted on March 25, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, JavaScript, Mobile, Web
Today I spent a few hours playing around with Apache Cordova. If you don’t know what that is, it’s basically a set of API’s that let you deploy Web Apps (JavaScript) to a mobile device and then have access to that device’s hardware.
If you’re already writing SPA-type apps, Apache Cordova can be a quick way to deploy your Web App to a mobile device and have it behave just like a native app.
posted on March 24, 2015 by long2know in angular, JavaScript, jsfiddle, Web
Yes, yes, you’ve probably seen posts regarding creating a modal dialog service before. I’ve been using one for a bit and wanted to share my spin on this concept.
Angular’s ui-bootstrap directives provide a lot of functionality out of the box. Having the $modal providers really make it easy to manage dialogs. While it is easy to create your own service that can create simple OK/Cancel requests, it is also pretty straight forward to create modals that let you pass data back and forth to your calling controller.
posted on March 24, 2015 by long2know in angular, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Security, Web
In .NET when I’m dealing with WebAPI controllers, I like to secure them. Typically, this is done with an [Authorize] attribute on the controller or the controller’s actions.
One problem that arises with .NET, though, is that a user’s auth token/cookie could be expired because they are inactive for a set amount of time. Imagine that you’ve written a shiny new SPA-type web app and is SOA driven. When the user resumes accessing your site, all of the API end-points will fail until the user logs back in.
posted on March 22, 2015 by long2know in angular, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Web
I’m not one to clutch strongly to ideals, or entrench myself in unrelenting philosophies, but I am a creature of habit. Most of my web applications over the past year have been Angular based and I have certain proclivities to particular structures in my applications. My IDE of choice has been Visual Studio 2013, so I take advantage of it and .NET to serve up my base structure.
In dealing with VS2013/.NET, there are some base mechanisms of which I take advantage. The ones I’d like to discuss are .NET bundling and Nuget.
posted on March 20, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, Security, Web
Ok, when you title a blog post as Part 1, you better follow up with a Part 2. I hadn’t forgotten, but it’s taken a little to come back around to my adventures with ASP.NET Identity.
Where was I? Oh yeah, last time I discussed how to, mostly, get ASP.NET Identity working with a pre-existing security model. This was working fine for me with the v2.1 Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework packages, but when I updated to the v2.2 packages, things broke.
For whatever reason, the Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework v2.2 packages changed the flow. The v2.1 packages, with my modest code modifications, didn’t seem to go back to the local (EF) database to update/create the current user. But, it may have been performing a check for user existence and then doing a upsert. The v2.2 packages, though, broke this paradigm.
posted on March 20, 2015 by long2know in Web
My relationship with Microsoft, and especially Windows, is a love hate relationship. For some inane reason, Microsoft continues to differentiate their server/desktop products. Yet, the code bases for those products are, in effect identical.
Microsoft’s separation of product lines ultimately hurts consumers. We wind up with identical products that are artificially limited.
posted on March 19, 2015 by long2know in Web
As a developer, I often overlook what infrastructure changes are involved in a setting up a production website. As a user of free services like FreeDNS / DynDNS, I had never even registered a domain.
Over the past few days, that changed. In deciding to create this blog, I settled on WordPress. Getting WordPress set-up and running through Microsoft’s Web Platform installer was actually pretty easy. However, I soon discovered that it was lacking.
