Migrating ASP.NET 5 RC1 apps to ASP.NET Core
.NET Core RC2 is a major update from the November RC1 release and since announced all those that developed apps using the RC1 version are now required to upgrade them. The new version of .NET Core...
View ArticleBuilding REST APIs using ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core
ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core are getting more and more attractive nowadays and this post will show you how to get the most of them in order to get started with building scalable and robust...
View ArticleAngular 2 CRUD, modals, animations, pagination, datetimepicker and much more
Angular 2 and TypeScript have fetched client-side development to the next level but till recently most of web developers hesitated to start a production SPA with those two. The first reason was that...
View ArticleBuilding hybrid mobile apps using Ionic 2 and Firebase
Mobile application development has been dramatically changed in the last years with more and more frameworks trying to stand on the front-line and convience developers that they are their best option...
View ArticleReal-time applications using ASP.NET Core, SignalR & Angular
Real-time web applications are apps that push user experience to the limits while trying to immediately reflect data changes to a great number of connected clients. You make use of such applications on...
View ArticleMaster Microsoft Azure Web application deployment
During this year we had the chance to build several Web applications using ASP.NET Core combined with frameworks and libraries such as Angular 2 or SignalR. Since then I have been receiving requests to...
View ArticleReactiveX operators – Angular playground
Reactive programming pattern seems to get more and more trusted by developers for building large-scale Web applications. Applications built with this pattern make use of frameworks, libraries or...
View ArticleContinuous Integration & Delivery with Microsoft Azure & GitHub – Best Practices
Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) automation practices, is one way path when you want to continuously produce and deliver software in short iterations, software that is guaranteed that when...
View ArticleAzure Cosmos DB: DocumentDB API in Action
During tha last years, there has been an significant change regarding the amount of data being produced and consumed by applications while data-models and scemas are evolving more frequently than used...
View ArticleNew e-book: Globally-Distributed Applications with Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure provides a huge amount of cloud services and is probably the best option for building applications in the cloud. While Microsoft provides documentation for its services, many times it...
View ArticleRelease process for distributed applications with data Geo-Replication
One of the most critical parts in software architecture is designing a release process for upgrading the software in your applications. The release plan is crucial and affects several factors such as:...
View ArticleAzure App Service CI/CD using AppVeyor
Publishing a web app to an Azure App Service is quite easy thing to do using Visual Studio but it certainly isn’t the best way to go with for enterprise solutions. Consider for example that you wish to...
View ArticleASP.NET Core Identity Series – Getting Started
ASP.NET Core Identity is Microsoft’s membership system widely known to .NET developers for managing application users. And by managing we mean everything that has to do with a user account such as...
View ArticleASP.NET Core Identity Series – Integrating Entity Framework
Microsoft.Extensions.Identity.Core is the minimum ASP.NET Core Identity package you need to install in order to get start working with the core functionality of the library. We have seen how to do this...
View ArticleASP.NET Core Identity Series – Deep dive in Authorization
Authorization in ASP.NET Core is the process that determines whether a user can or cannot access a specific resource. It’s not part of the ASP.NET Core Identity library but can be tightly connected to...
View ArticleGetting started with Azure Service Fabric
In case you are planning to build the new Facebook or Twitter you probably need to adopt a Microservice architecture that allows you to easily scale up to thousands of machines (Scalability) and be...
View ArticleInstant page rendering and seamless navigation for SPAs
Single Page Applications SPAs nowadays are probably the latest trend when building web applications and this comes for two reasons: a) they offer a smoothless user experience with no page reloads and...
View ArticleBuilding serverless apps with Azure Functions
As the cloud evolves over the years, application architectures also adapt to changes resulting to new, modern and more flexible patterns of how we build applications today. One of the hottest patterns...
View ArticleAzure Functions Proxies in Action
Azure Functions Proxies is serverless API toolkit that basically allows you to modify the requests and responses of your APIs. This feature might sounds a little bit simple but it’s not. With AF...
View ArticleASP.NET Core Identity Series – OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect & IdentityServer
As the web evolved over the years it proved that the traditional security options and mechanics such as client-server authentication, had several limitations and couldn’t cover (at least properly) the...
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