OWIN Cookie Authentication with variable cookie paths
By default OWIN Cookie Authentication let’s you specify a single configurable cookie path that does not change for the lifetime of the application, for exampleapp.UseCookieAuthentication(new…
Smidge 2.0 alpha is out
Over the past few months I’ve been working on some enhancements to Smidge and have found a bit of time to get an alpha released. There’s loads of great new features in Smidge 2.0! New Features…
FCN (File Change Notification) Viewer for ASP.NET
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Umbraco CLI running on ASP.NET Core
Over the past couple of years I’ve slowly been working on getting Umbraco to run on ASP.NET Core. Unlike many other ASP.NET frameworks and products that have rewritten their apps in ASP.NET Core, I’ve…
Installing .NET Core 1.01 on Ubuntu 16.10
Warning: Linux noob content below I’ve been testing out some .NET Core cross platform stuff and originally had been using Ubuntu 14.04 with .NET Core 1.0.0 and that all worked fine along with the…
ASMX SOAP Webservices with abstract models without using XmlInclude
I’m hoping this post might be useful to some folks out there that might be stuck using old ASMX/SOAP webservices in ASP.Net. If you’ve tried to return an abstract or superclass from an ASMX webservice…
ASP.NET Core application shutdown events
During the process of porting an existing library to ASP.NET Core I had to find the equivalent functionality of IRegisteredObject which I’ve discovered is…
Custom Assembly loading with Asp.Net Core
Building a plugin system in Asp.Net Core is a dream compared to previous Asp.Net versions. In previous versions it was not really feasible to have DLLs located outside of the /bin folder for a web…
AppVeyor and ASP.Net Core (Previously ASP.Net 5)
I’ve been working on a project called “Smidge” which is a runtime Js/Css pre-processor for ASP.Net Core and have been meaning to blog about how I integrated this with AppVeyor – to run my tests, build…
Making a DynamicObject implementation be case insensitive
To me this seems to be a very straight forward request but I cannot find the ‘easy’ way to do this in .Net even though there seems to be a clear indication that this is supported Out of The Box.…