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elmah.io - Cloud-based Error Logging Platform for ASP.NET MVC & Core Web Applications An extensive review of elmah.io, a SaaS solution for monitoring ASP.NET applications that sends crash notifications and shows user-generated Exceptions in real time.

October 20, 2018April 18, 2021 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

Any seasoned web developer knows what an uptime monitoring service is and the key role it has when deploying an application in a production environment: the ability to constantly check out …

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ASP.NET - How to merge (concatenate) two or more arrays in C# A simple yet useful one-liner that you can use to concatenate two or more arrays using C# and LINQ in ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core

October 10, 2018October 11, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you've stumbled upon this post, it probably means that you're looking for a way to solve this simple task:

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ASP.NET Core - How to use Role Authorization Filters in a Token-based Auth How to properly implement roles within the ASP.NET Core authorization filters in a Token-based IdentityRole without getting HTTP 401 - Not Authorized errors

September 30, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Today I had to answer to a GitHub issue created by one of my readers who asked me how to properly implement a Role Authorization filter on the controller methods …

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Entity Framework Core Migrations error - Database already exists - How to fix How to fix the Database already Exists (or Table, or Relation) error that might occur when using Database.Migrate() method by conditionally calling it

September 30, 2018September 30, 2018 - by Ryan - 3 Comments.

Today I was working on my TestMakerFree Angular app, which I used as a sample app for my ASP.NET Core 2 and Angular 5 book: specifically, I was looking for a way …

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ASP.NET C# Helper Class to merge TIFF files into a single multipage TIFF A small yet useful Helper Class written in C-Sharp that can be used to merge multiple TIFF image files into a single multipage TIFF file

September 6, 2018July 30, 2019 - by Ryan - 7 Comments.

Multipage TIFFs are awesome, aren't them? Well, actually not so much, especially considering the existance of better alternatives such as PDF files. That's precisely why we published a post some …

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Visual Studio 2017 - Lost Razor Intellisense and Syntax Highlight - How to Fix it How to repair your Visual Studio 2017 installation and get back Intellisense and Syntax Highlight on your Razor pages & .cshtml files without reinstalling

August 20, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 6 Comments.

Today I had to deal with a nasty issue that happened on my Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Edition, right after installing the VS2017 15.8.1 update. In a nutshell, I had lost …

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External Provider Authentication using OAuth2 Implicit and Explicit Flow A quick tutorial explaining the key differences between the two grant types provided by the OAuth2 authorization flow

August 16, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Allowing users to sign in using their existing credentials is often a great way to drive additional traffic to our applications, as demonstrated by a number of case studies by …

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Microsoft MVP Award 2018-2019 in Developer Technologies The Microsoft MVP Award Box has arrived today in all its shining beauty: here are some high-resolution pictures of the box contents

August 16, 2018August 16, 2018 - by Dark - Leave a Comment

A couple weeks ago I got the wonderful news that I had been granted the Microsoft MVP Award 2018-2019 in Developer Technologies category: that's an awesome professional achievement that I'm …

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Windows Server - How to Send SMTP Auth E-Mail with PowerShell Using the System.Net.Mail.MailMessage and Net.Mail.SmtpClient .NET Framework objects with PowerShell to send authenticated e-mail messages through a secure SMTP server

August 15, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

A couple of years ago I published an article explaining how to send notification E-Mail messages with PowerShell. I wrote that post to demonstrate how a simple notification script could …

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Microsoft MVP: Everything You Need to Know A list of (great) things you can actually do since the day you get the Microsoft MVP award e-mail

August 15, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you've stumbled upon this post, it probably means that your mailbox has been recently visited by an e-mail from Microsoft congratulating you for being awarded as a Microsoft® Most Valuable …