5 articles in ASP.NET
Using Markdown in ASP.NET
March 6, 2017
Recently I was tasked with adding some CMS style functionality to a customers site. Rather than reinvent the wheel by doing my own pattern matching etc, I decided to use some markdown to do the hard work. I naively thought that it would be easier to implement because the markdown library would take…
Adding ASP.NET Identity 4.5 to an Existing Application
November 12, 2016
Watching videos about putting ASP.NET websites together, it always looks really nice and straight forward, it demos really well. Back at the office, faced with some real world requirements things never seem that simple. To this end I decided to try to setup the Identity framework from scratch on an…
Using HttpClient to access API resources
June 16, 2015
Oftentimes we will have the need to call into an API to load resources. HttpClient class provides in the System.Net namespace provides all the required functionality to interact with an API in the usual ways. In the example below, we have a C# POCO called CustomerRequest which is used to…
Setting up log4net in ASP.NET MVC
April 2, 2015
I seem to burn far to many hours trying to do the relatively simple task of setting up log4net on a project. Well step one is easy enough, install through nuget . Next... Add web.config settings I like to create a separate config file for log4net because it keeps things simpler. So add the…
ASP.NET MVC Standard Application Architecture
February 12, 2015
At work we have started moving towards a standard .NET application architecture for most of our apps. This uses MVC 5 website with a REST client talking to a Web API 5. When you open a visual studio solution, as a minimum you see the following projects... Initially we started to use Web APIs…