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Andrew Lock

  2. Four ways to dispose IDisposables in ASP.NET Core

    One of the most commonly implemented interfaces in .NET is the IDisposable interface. Classes implement IDisposable when they contain references to unmanaged resources, such as window handles, files or sockets. The garbage collector automatically releases memory for managed (i.e. .NET) objects, but it doesn't know about how to handle…
    on ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection - Comments

  3. Automatically validating anti-forgery tokens in ASP.NET Core with the AutoValidateAntiforgeryTokenAttribute

    This quick post is a response to a question about anti-forgery tokens I saw on twitter: I want to apply ValidateAntiForgeryToken to every action on all HttpPost requests in #AspNetCore MVC. Any easy way to do this? #dotnetcore— Tugberk Ugurlu (@tourismgeek) 10 June 2017 Anti-forgery tokens are a security…
    on ASP.NET Core Security CSRF - Comments

  4. Defining custom logging messages with LoggerMessage.Define in ASP.NET Core

    One of the nice features introduced in ASP.NET Core is the universal logging infrastructure. In this post I take a look at one of the helper methods in the ASP.NET Core logging library, and how you can use it to efficiently log messages in your libraries. Before we…
    on ASP.NET Core Logging - Comments

  5. Using ImageSharp to resize images in ASP.NET Core - Part 4: saving to disk

    This is the next in a series of posts on using ImageSharp to resize images in an ASP.NET Core application. I showed how you could define an MVC action that takes a path to a file stored in the wwwroot folder, resizes it, and serves the resized file. The…
    on ASP.NET Core Image Processing - Comments

  6. The Microsoft.AspNetCore.All metapackage is huge, and that's awesome, thanks to the .NET Core runtime store

    In the ASP.NET Core 2.0 preview 1 release, Microsoft have released a new metapackage called Microsoft.AspNetCore.All. This package consists of every single package shipped by Microsoft as part of ASP.NET Core 2.0, including all the Razor packages, MVC packages, Entity Framework Core packages, everything!…
    on ASP.NET Core .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 NuGet - Comments

  7. How to use multiple hosting environments on the same machine in ASP.NET Core

    This short post is in response to a comment I received on a post I wrote a while ago, about how to set the hosting environment in ASP.NET Core. It's a question I've heard a couple of times, so thought I'd write it up here. The question by Denis…
    on ASP.NET Core Hosting Environment - Comments