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2. Controller activation and dependency injection in ASP.NET Core MVC

   In this post, I'll describe how controllers are created in ASP.NET Core MVC using the IControllerActivator and the options available out of the box.…

   June 27, 2017 in ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection
3. Four ways to dispose IDisposables in ASP.NET Core

   This post presents the options for disposing services in ASP.NET Core: manually; using the DI container; with RegisterForDispose; or IApplicationLifetime.…

   June 20, 2017 in ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection
4. Automatically validating anti-forgery tokens in ASP.NET Core with the AutoValidateAntiforgeryTokenAttribute

   This post shows how to apply the AutoValidateAntiforgeryTokenAttribute globally to automatically protect all dangerous action methods from CSRF attacks.…

   June 12, 2017 in ASP.NET Core Security CSRF
5. Defining custom logging messages with LoggerMessage.Define in ASP.NET Core

   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 app…

   June 06, 2017 in ASP.NET Core Logging
6. Using ImageSharp to resize images in ASP.NET Core - Part 4: saving to disk

   In this post I show a different approach to caching images. We write the file to disk in the wwwroot folder and serve the file with the StaticFileMiddleware…

   June 01, 2017 in ASP.NET Core Image Processing
7. The Microsoft.AspNetCore.All metapackage is huge, and that's awesome, thanks to the .NET Core runtime store

   The ASP.NET Core 2.0 preview 1 metapackage, Microsoft.AspNetCore.All, includes every package released as part of ASP.NET Core. This post looks at why.…

   May 30, 2017 in ASP.NET Core .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 NuGet