Using AspNet5 OptionsModel
If you’ve used AspNet5 then you’ve probably been using some MVC in which case you’ve probably seen something like this in your Startup class:// Add MVC services to the services containerservices.AddMv…
Configuring ASP.Net Identity OAuth login providers for multi-tenancy
Say for example you have a CMS :) You want to give full control to the developer to manage how their front-end members with authenticate, which could of course include ASP.Net Identity OAuth login pro…
Using LinqPad with Umbraco
During some spare time last weekend I decided to look into booting up Umbraco outside of a web context. I know this has been done before in various different ways but for this I wanted to just try to…
ASP.Net 5 Linux support for runtime JS & CSS preprocessing with Smidge
I’ve been working on a side project called Smidge which is a runtime JS & CSS preprocessor for ASP.Net 5. I started this late last year after the 2014 MS MVP Summit as a good starting point to deep…
All about ASP.Net File Change Notification (FCN)
There’s a chance you might not have heard of FCN (File Change Notification) in ASP.Net and there’s an even bigger chance you didn’t realize how much it might affect you. What is FCN in ASP.Net? As…
Powershell script to create an Umbraco package in Umbraco’s native file format
Since I like using Powershell for my build scripts for various projects I thought it would be handy to create a 100% Powershell powered script to create an Umbraco package in Umbraco’s native package…
Isolated WebApi attribute routing
Attribute routing in ASP.Net WebApi is great and makes routing your controllers quite a bit more elegant than writing routes manually. However one problem I have with it is that it is either “on” or “off” at…
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.…
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…
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…