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Andrew Lock
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  1. Adding favicons to your ASP.NET Core website with Real Favicon Generator

    In this post I will show how you can add favicons to your ASP.NET Core MVC application, using the site realfavicongenerator.net. The days of being able to add a simple favicon.ico to the root of your new web app are long gone. There are so many different…
    on ASP.NET Core Front End - Comments

  2. How to pass parameters to a view component

    In my last post I showed how to create a custom view component to simplify my Razor views, and separate the logic of what to display from the UI concern. View components are a good fit where you have some complex rendering logic, which does not belong in the UI,…
    on ASP.NET Core View Components Front End Razor - Comments

  3. An introduction to ViewComponents - a login status view component

    View components are one of the potentially less well known features of ASP.NET Core Razor views. Unlike tag-helpers which have the pretty much direct equivalent of Html Helpers in the previous ASP.NET, view components are a bit different. In spirit, they fit somewhere between a partial view and…
    on ASP.NET Core Razor View Components Front End - Comments

  4. Fixing a bug: when concatenated strings turn into numbers in JavaScript

    This is a very quick post about trying to fix a JavaScript bug that plagued me for an hour this morning. tl;dr I was tripped up by a rogue unary operator and slap-dash copy-pasting. The setup On an existing web page, there was some JavaScript that builds up a…
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  5. Modifying the UI based on user authorisation in ASP.NET Core

    This post is the next in the series on authentication and authorisation in ASP.NET Core. It shows how to modify the UI you present based on the authorisation level of the current user. This allows you to hide links to pages the user is not authorised to access, for…
    on ASP.NET Core Security Auth Front End - Comments

  6. HTML minification using WebMarkupMin in ASP.NET Core

    It is common practice in web development to minify your static assets (CSS, JavaScript, images) as part of your deployment process. This reduces the amount of data being sent over the network, without changing the function of the code within. In contrast, it is not very common to minify the…
    on ASP.NET Core Front End - Comments