Longing to know

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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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At Build last week, the possibility to have global filters applied to a context opened the possibility to support multi-tenancy scenarios directly. Multi-tenancy is the concept of having specific users, or “tenants”, having access to, or ownership of, only their data. In the past, I have simply checked a user’s role and conditionally added filters. Pushing this into a global filter, though, seems a bit more practical.

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In a previous post, I demonstrated a bit of code that uses Reflection to retrieve a proper materialized trace string from Entity Framework 1.1. The 2.0 preview release of EF broke that code, though.

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AWS ECR, Docker and .NET Core

.NET Core HTTPS Oddities

Deploying .NET Core Applications to IIS

Flattening .NET Exceptions and Simple Hierarchies

Deploying .NET Core to IIS

AngularJS Parsers and Formatters

Sharing Cookies and Tokens between OWIN and .NET Core (Part 2)

Sharing Cookies and Tokens between OWIN and .NET Core

Entity Framework Multitenancy

Entity Framework Core 2.0 Trace Strings