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Andrew Lock

  2. Using an IActionFilter to read action method parameter values in ASP.NET Core MVC

    In this post I shown how you can use an IActionFilter in ASP.NET Core MVC to read the method parameters for an action method before it executes. I'll show two different approaches to solve the problem, depending on your requirements. In the first approach, you know that the parameter…
    on ASP.NET Core MVC - Comments

  3. Implementing custom token providers for passwordless authentication in ASP.NET Core Identity

    This post was inspired by Scott Brady's recent post on implementing "passwordless authentication" using ASP.NET Core Identity.. In this post I show how to implement his "optimisation" suggestions to reduce the lifetime of "magic link" tokens. I start by providing some some background on the use case, but I…
    on ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core Identity Auth Security - Comments

  4. Creating a .NET Core global CLI tool for squashing images with the TinyPNG API

    In this post I describe a .NET Core CLI global tool I created that can be used to compress images using the TinyPNG developer API. I'll give some background on .NET Core CLI tools, describe the changes to tooling in .NET Core 2.1, and show some of the code…
    on .NET Core ASP.NET Core 2.1 .NET CLI - Comments

  5. How to create a Helm chart repository using Amazon S3

    Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes. You can bundle Kubernetes resources together as charts that define all the necessary resources and dependencies of an application. You can then use the Helm CLI to install all the pods, services, and ingresses for an application in one simple command. Just like…
    on DevOps Kubernetes AWS - Comments

  6. Exploring the Microsoft.AspNetCore.App shared framework in ASP.NET Core 2.1 (preview 1)

    In ASP.NET core 2.1 (currently in preview 1) Microsoft have changed the way the ASP.NET core framework is deployed for .NET Core apps, by moving to a system of shared frameworks instead of using the runtime store. In this post, I look at some of the history…
    on ASP.NET Core 2.1 NuGet ASP.NET Core .NET Core - Comments

  7. Fixing Nginx "upstream sent too big header" error when running an ingress controller in Kubernetes

    In this post I describe a problem I had running IdentityServer 4 behind an Nginx reverse proxy. In my case, I was running Nginx as an ingress controller for a Kubernetes cluster, but the issue is actually not specific to Kubernetes, or IdentityServer - it's an Nginx configuration issue. The…
    on DevOps Kubernetes IdentityServer Issues - Comments