How to turn an ASP.NET Core appsettings.json file into a fast-read database
This article describes a way to create a database using ASP.NET Core appsettings.json configuration feature. The big benefit of this approach is the read is blistering fast, something like 1,000 times...
View ArticleHow to take an ASP.NET Core web site “Down for maintenance”
If you have an e-commerce or business web app used by lots of users, then you really don’t want that app to be “down” (e.g. “site offline” or “site not found”) because it’s bad for business. But at...
View ArticleASP.NET Core: Three ways to refresh the claims of a logged-in user
An ASP.NET Core application uses claims to hold the logged-in user’s authentication and authorization data. These claims are created on login and stored in a cookie or a JWT Token for quick access....
View ArticleImproving the support of multiple languages in .NET applications
One of users of my AuthPermissions.AspNetCore library (shortened to AuthP in this article) asked for support for multiple languages – known in .NET as Localization. I looked at the .NET localization...
View ArticleApplying an improved multiple languages library to .NET applications
The last article covered why I added extra features to the .NET support of multiple languages (known as localization in .NET) and via the Net.LocalizeMessagesAndErrors library (shortened to...
View ArticleA pattern / library for methods that return a status, including localization
This article is about a pattern / library that allows you to create methods that can return a status, that is a success / fail value, plus the error messages – I call this “returning a status”. It...
View ArticleUsing custom databases with the AuthP library – Part1: normal apps
The AuthPermissions.AspNetCore library, referred to as AuthP library, provides enhanced Roles authentication and multi-tenant services to an .NET application. The AuthP library needs to store...
View ArticleThe (long) journey to a better sharding multi-tenant application
This article focuses on the sharding approach of building a .NET multi-tenant application using the AuthPermissions.AspNetCore library (shortened to AuthP). After working exclusively on a...
View ArticleHow to update a NuGet library once the author isn’t available
I’m writing this article because I have an illness called dementia, which over time degrades a person’s ability to remember, think, and make decisions. This means at some point I won’t be able to...
View ArticleA detailed look at EF Core’s JSON Columns feature
Some developers used EF Core JSON Columns in their DbContext when using my EfCore.SchemaCompare library, then they had a problem. That’s because I hadn’t added support for JSON Columns to my...
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