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Andrew Lock

  2. 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…
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  3. 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…
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  4. Creating custom password validators for ASP.NET Core Identity

    ASP.NET Core Identity is a membership system that lets you add user accounts to your ASP.NET Core applications. It provides the low-level services for creating users, verifying passwords and signing users in to your application, as well as additional features such as two-factor authentication (2FA) and account lockout…
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  5. Localising the DisplayAttribute in ASP.NET Core 1.1

    This is a very quick post in response to a comment asking about the state of localisation for the DisplayAttribute in ASP.NET Core 1.1. A while ago I wrote a series of posts about localising your ASP.NET Core application, using the IStringLocalizer abstraction. Adding Localisation to an…
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  6. When you use the Polly circuit-breaker, make sure you share your Policy instances!

    This post is somewhat of PSA about using the excellent open source Polly library for handling resiliency to your application. Recently, I was tasked with adding a circuit-breaker implementation to some code calling an external API, and I figured Polly would be perfect, especially as we already used it in…
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  7. Controller activation and dependency injection in ASP.NET Core MVC

    In my last post about disposing IDsiposables in ASP.NET Core, Mark Rendle pointed out that MVC controllers are also disposed at the end of a request. On first glance, this may seem obvious given that scoped resources are disposed at the end of a request, but MVC controllers are…
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