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2. Debugging JWT validation problems between an OWIN app and IdentityServer4

   This post describes an issue that arose migrating from IdentityServer3 to IdentityServer4, where an OWIN app cannot validate a JWT issued by IdentityServer4…

   October 10, 2017 in ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core Identity IdentityServer
3. Creating and trusting a self-signed certificate on Linux for use in Kestrel and ASP.NET Core

   In this post I show how to create a self-signed certificate on Linux. I show how you can trust the certificate, and how to configure Kestrel to use it.…

   October 03, 2017 in ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core 2.0 Security
4. Using anonymous types and tuples to attach correlation IDs to scope state with Serilog and Seq in ASP.NET Core

   In this post I describe two extension methods that make logging scopes as key-value pairs nicer in ASP.NET Core, by using anonymous types and tuples.…

   September 26, 2017 in ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core 2.0 Logging C#
5. Creating an extension method for attaching key-value pairs to scope state using ASP.NET Core

   In this post I describe a small extension method that makes logging scopes as key-value pairs in ASP.NET Core with Serilog and Seq a little nicer.…

   September 19, 2017 in ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core 2.0 Logging
6. How to include scopes when logging exceptions in ASP.NET Core

   In this post I introduce the concept of scopes in ASP.NET Core, how exceptions can cause you to lose a scope, and how to get round this using a neat trick.…

   September 12, 2017 in ASP.NET Core 2.0 ASP.NET Core Logging
7. Creating a rolling file logging provider for ASP.NET Core 2.0

   In this post I'll show how to create an ILoggingProvider for ASP.NET Core that writes logs to the file system, based on the Azure App Service provider.…

   September 05, 2017 in ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core 2.0 Logging