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Andrew Lock

  2. The SDK 'Microsoft.Net.Sdk.Web' specified could not be found

    This article describes why you get the error "The SDK 'Microsoft.Net.Sdk.Web' specified could not be found" when creating a new project in Visual Studio 2017 15.3, which prevents the project from loading, and how to fix it. tl;dr; I had a rogue global.json sitting…
    on ASP.NET Core Visual Studio ASP.NET Core 2.0 Issues - Comments

  3. Introduction to the ApiExplorer in ASP.NET Core

    One of the standard services added when you call AddMvc() or AddMvcCore() in an ASP.NET Core MVC application is the ApiExplorer. In this post I'll show a quick example of its capabilities, and give you a taste of the metadata you can obtain about your application. Exposing your application's…
    on ASP.NET Core API Explorer - Comments

  4. How to format response data as XML or JSON, based on the request URL in ASP.NET Core

    I think it's safe to say that most ASP.NET Core applications that use a Web API return data as JSON. What with JavaScript in the browser, and JSON parsers everywhere you look, this makes perfect sense. Consequently, ASP.NET Core is very much geared towards JSON, but it is…
    on ASP.NET Core Formatting ASP.NET Core 1.1 Routing - Comments

  5. Customising ASP.NET Core Identity EF Core naming conventions for PostgreSQL

    ASP.NET Core Identity is an authentication and membership system that lets you easily add login functionality to your ASP.NET Core application. It is designed in a modular fashion, so you can use any "stores" for users and claims that you like, but out of the box it uses…
    on ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core Identity PostgreSQL EF Core - Comments

  6. Building ASP.NET Core 2.0 preview 2 packages on AppVeyor

    I was recently creating a new GitHub project and I wanted to target ASP.NET Core 2.0 preview 2. I like to use AppVeyor for the CI build and for publishing to MyGet/NuGet, as I can typically just copy and paste a single file between projects to get…
    on ASP.NET Core DevOps .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2 - Comments

  7. Creating a validator to check for common passwords in ASP.NET Core Identity

    In my last post, I showed how you can create a custom validator for ASP.NET Core. In this post, I introduce a package that lets you validate that a password is not one of the most common passwords users choose. You can find the package on GitHub and on…
    on ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core Identity Security .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2 - Comments