posted on April 6, 2016 by long2know in angular, ASP.NET, JavaScript
Often, web applications aren’t deployed to the root path of a web server. Also, often, developers (me included) develop applications with the intent of deploying to the root path.
Overcoming this problem with an Angular app, while also making a local build against IIS Express and a production deploy work, is relatively straight forward.
posted on March 9, 2016 by long2know in ASP.NET, Security
ASP.NET has some useful security options to prevent cross-site scripting, click hijacking, and other vulnerabilities. However, configuring these options has a few caveats.
posted on February 11, 2016 by long2know in ASP.NET, Ninject
Dependency injection is very useful for decoupling classes from specific implementations. Typically, I use constructor injection with Ninject as my IoC (inversion of control) container. However, I’ve always had to specify interface -> type bindings one by one. It’s very clunky.
posted on February 10, 2016 by long2know in ASP.NET, MVC, OWIN, Security, WebApi
With a new project we have, I was tasked with working on security. Initially, I used OWIN and cookie authentication to implement a simple login and all was good. However, we wanted to remove the ability to login and have it driven by an external site redirecting a user with a token.
posted on February 5, 2016 by long2know in ASP.NET, Web
A friend of mine asked me earlier today what a good pattern for accessing an Api from within a class library would look like. In .NET, I generally like to wrap this type of functionality within a service that can be injected.
posted on September 28, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, MVC, WebApi
In my .NET 4.5 MVC projects, I already have helper methods/extensions that let me determine if a user has access to a particular controller action. This provides a nice mechanism to hide and show buttons, hyperlinks, or other UI action elements based on the authorization attributes that have been defined on the MVC Controller.
However, this is a bit more complicated with ApiControllers.
posted on September 7, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, Microsoft
As a web developer primarily utilizing .NET for backend server development, and as one who uses Linux for my own hosting environments, Microsoft’s efforts to make .NET 5 cross platform are welcome. Over the Labor Day weekend, I spent a bit of time seeing how I could leverage this to host .NET web applications myself. While I mention Mint Linux, specifically, this guide should apply to any Debian/Ubuntu derivatives.
posted on July 13, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, Web
Over the weekend, I attended Codestock. One of the sessions that I attended dealt with a subject I had wrestled with myself: eliminating string literals.
While the session focused on HtmlHelper extensions for MVC, I have used the same techniques for building general LINQ expressions, queries, and other useful aspects.
posted on June 22, 2015 by long2know in angular, ASP.NET, MVC, Web
After my brief primer (Part 1) of the things I’m looking to accomplish with Angular in what I consider a large-scale application, I’ve had a week or so to toss around ideas and get a solid foundation.
To recap, I want this application to avoid becoming an unruly, behemoth that is unmanageable. I want core, reusable components to be separated from core functionality. That is to say, I want loose coupling. The application should have hooks, navigation, and what not that is self-aware while allowing multiple developers to create their own discrete set of functional areas. In that vein, or to that end, I want “areas” to be independent for the most part and, as such, developers should be able to work on the individual functional areas without stepping all over each other’s code, or worrying much about breaking other parts of the application.
posted on June 12, 2015 by long2know in angular, ASP.NET, JavaScript, MVC, Web
This week, my team and I have embarked on a new large scale application. It’s predominately your typical web multi-tier web application with business logic, security, CRUD, and what not.
However, it’s also going to be an Angular Single Page App (SPA). Thinking about the structure of this application, in terms functional blocks and project/solution layout is pivotal in the design and engineering process.
