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2. The SDK 'Microsoft.Net.Sdk.Web' specified could not be found

   This article describes how to fix "The SDK 'Microsoft.Net.Sdk.Web' specified could not be found" when creating ASP.NET Core 2.0 projects in VS 2017 15.3.…

   August 15, 2017 in ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core 2.0 Visual Studio Issues
3. Introduction to the ApiExplorer in ASP.NET Core

   In this post I'll show a quick example of the ApiExplorer MVC feature, and how you can use it to expose metadata about your application.…

   August 08, 2017 in ASP.NET Core API Explorer
4. How to format response data as XML or JSON, based on the request URL in ASP.NET Core

   In this post I'll show how to use the FormatFilter, so that you can specify the output format for an action using a URL suffix, e.g. /api/values.xml as XML.…

   August 01, 2017 in ASP.NET Core Formatting ASP.NET Core 1.1 Routing
5. Customising ASP.NET Core Identity EF Core naming conventions for PostgreSQL

   In this post I'll describe how to configure EF Core to use snake_case for database object names instead of Camel Case, so they work better with PostgreSQL.…

   July 25, 2017 in ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core Identity PostgreSQL EF Core
6. Building ASP.NET Core 2.0 preview 2 packages on AppVeyor

   In this post, I'll show how to update your appveyor.yml file so you can build .NET Core preview libraries on AppVeyor by installing the SDK on each build.…

   July 20, 2017 in ASP.NET Core DevOps .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2
7. Creating a validator to check for common passwords in ASP.NET Core Identity

   In this post, I introduce a package for ASP.NET Core Identity that lets you validate a user hasn't used one of the most common 100,000 passwords.…

   July 18, 2017 in ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core Identity Security .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2