How Web Apps Ruined Developer Productivity
Y2K heralded more than date-format hysteria, it was the dawn of web-based applications. I argue it was also the beginning of a steady and costly decline in e...
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A Serilog Logging Helper for Azure Functions
A quick look at a Serilog helper-class add Azure Function name and instance id to log entry properties.
Serilog Dependency Injection and Easy IP Logging
We demonstrate how to inject references to Serilog, the wildly popular .NET logging framework, and we show how to inject an IP-logging variation for website ...
Cache and Release Resources in Azure Functions
Azure Functions don’t have a clearly-defined lifecycle, so it appears difficult to safely cache and release objects that are expensive to create but require ...
Reusable Dependency Injection for Azure Function Apps
We show how to turn an Azure Function dependency injection experiment into a reusable library for any Azure Function V1 project.
.NET Core Class Library Dependency Injection
Adding dependency injection to class libraries in .NET Core 2.0 is almost as easy as DI in ASP.NET, but class libraries may require a few extra tricks that a...
Login and Identity Management Best-Practices
There are many interesting and tricky concerns surrounding user login, logout, and identity management. We’ll take a look at common and uncommon scenarios an...
SignOutAsync and Identity Server Cookies
Handling sign-out correctly can be complicated, and the behavior of ASP.NET Core’s SignOutAsync method is not always obvious. We’ll examine one common scenar...
Persistent Login with IdentityServer4
Users expect a persistent login to “just work” as soon as they reach the website, and landing pages rely on user authentication to vary what the user sees (“...
Storing X509 Certificates in Azure Key Vault
This article demonstrates storing and retrieving X.509 certificates to Azure Key Vault. This is useful for ASP.NET Core’s Data Protection feature, as well as...