Andrew Lock | .NET Escapades

Andrew Lock

  2. Retrieving the path that generated an error with the StatusCodePages Middleware

    In my previous post, I showed how to use the re-execute features of the StatusCodePagesMiddleware to generate custom error pages for status-code errors. This allows you to easily create custom error pages for common error status codes like 404 or 500. The re-executing approach using UseStatusCodePagesWithReExecute is generally a better…
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  3. Re-execute the middleware pipeline with the StatusCodePages Middleware to create custom error pages

    By default, the ASP.NET Core templates include either the ExceptionHandlerMiddleware or the DeveloperExceptionPage. Both of these catch exceptions thrown by the middleware pipeline, but they don't handle error status codes that are returned by the pipeline (without throwing an exception). For that, there is the StatusCodePagesMiddleware. There are a…
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  4. Deconstructors for non-tuple types in C# 7.0

    As well as finally seeing the RTM of the .NET Core tooling, Visual Studio 2017 brought a whole host of new things to the table. Among these is C# 7.0, which introduces a number of new features to the language. Many of these features are essentially syntactic sugar over…
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  5. Preventing mass assignment or over posting in ASP.NET Core

    Mass assignment, also known as over-posting, is an attack used on websites that involve some sort of model-binding to a request. It is used to set values on the server that a developer did not expect to be set. This is a well known attack now, and has been discussed…
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  6. Git integration improvements in Visual Studio 2017 - git-hooks

    Visual Studio 2017 includes a whole host of improvements to its Git integration. Among other things, SSH support is built it, you can push --force-with-lease, and easily diff commits. Some of these improvements are due to a switch in the way the Git integration works - instead of relying on…
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  7. What is the NETStandard.Library metapackage?

    In my last post, I took a quick look at the Microsoft.AspNetCore meta package. One of the libraries referenced by the package, is the NETStandard.Library NuGet package. In this post I take a quick look at this package and what it contains. If you're reading this post, you…
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