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Andrew Lock

  2. Aligning strings within string.Format and interpolated strings

    I was browsing through the MSDN docs the other day, trying to remind myself of the various standard ToString() format strings, when I spotted something I have somehow missed in all my years of .NET - alignment components. This post is for those of you who have also managed to…
    on C# - Comments

  3. Using CancellationTokens in ASP.NET Core MVC controllers

    In this post I'll show how you can use a CancellationToken in your ASP.NET Core action method to stop execution when a user cancels a request from their browser. This can be useful if you have long running requests that you don't want to continue using up resources when…
    on ASP.NET Core Model Binding - Comments

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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