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Supporting multiple authentication schemes in asp.net core webapi
Using more than one authentication schemes in webapi projects
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Is is not so often than you have to use more than one authentication schemes in your project, but there are some corner cases when you have to do so. One of it is a scenario where you are supporting some weaker authentication schema like basic http authentication where credentials are supplied pretty much on every request. This kind of loosen security schema is to some limited extend suitable for internal APIs meaning that no other than users or most likely application within your organization network will access...read more
Mixed model binding in ASP.NET Core using custom model binders
IModelBinder interface implementations usage for multiple source model binding
 
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Patterns, conventions and standards are invented and enforced in order to make coding easier and more understandable for the developers, but in some cases certain patterns and conventions do not couple so easily and you have to rely on more on the actual technology you are using in order to overcome these complications. One of the cases this happens is using CQRS, especially commands and REST...read more
Handling file uploads in Swagger UI with ASP.NET Core
Swagger UI file upload in ASP.NET Core WebApi
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Swagger is the most convenient way to document your REST api endpoints. It provides generating of documentation on the fly based on the code structure, which shortens the time of creating the documentation drastically...read more
Automatic CQRS handler registration in ASP.NET Core with reflection
Registering all query and command handlers in your CQRS implementation in ASP.NET Core
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Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) pattern is one of my favorite way of handling the Web API requests for a simple reason that is clearly separates reading and writing. Quite often at some stage of the project you will hit the performance bottlenecks which are most probably cause by the way you are reading ow writing your data. CQRS splits reading and writing so that you can independently use different persistence framework for reading and writing...read more
Localization of the DTOs in a separate assembly in ASP.NET Core
Localizing validation messages in ASP.NET Core WebAPI
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Since REST services do not have the UI, there is not much space for the localization. Data is sent and retrieved and most of the decisions is made based on the status code of the response...read more
Displaying Azure DevOps build number in Swagger UI for ASP.NET Core
How to add and show Azure DevOps build number in ASP.NET Core project and Swagger UI
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Swagger is a great way to document you REST API endpoints and reduce the need for communication, item spent and the cost for supporting the consumers of you APIs. Apart from providing the info about the endpoints, models, validation it can also display the data of the product...read more
Why you should not use Authorize attributes to protect your API endpoints
Protecting ASP.NET Core WebAPI without using Authorize attribute
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Authentication is an essential component of pretty much any REST API. Most of the resources you expose through REST API services, unless they are protected inside intranet, need to be protected by some kind of authentication. This is pretty much clear and it is easy achieved by just simply decorating your controller actions or even whole controllers with Authorize or AllowAnonymous attributes. ...read more
DTO comments from external assembly in Swagger documentation in ASP.NET Core
Involving contract classes documentation from separate assemblies to Swagger
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Contracts, models or DTOs, call them how ever you want, are your connection with the outside world from your REST API. Consumers of your API depend on them and they know what to expect or what your API endpoints expect in communication...read more
Partial update with PATCH using DTOs and AutoMapper in REST WebApi
How to partially update an entity in REST WebApi services with ASP.NET Core
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Implementing partial updates on the REST API is probably the trickiest method to implement. Unlike PUT HTTP method where you pass the whole DTO when you are updating an entity, PATCH method is intended to update only one or few properties of the entity you want to apply change to...read more
The best option to use for a return type in ASP.NET Core WebAPI controller
Choosing the proper return type for WebApi controller actions
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Starting from .NET Core version 2.1, there are so far three types of WebApi responses that controller actions can return. All three types had it's own pros and cons but all are lacking in options to satisfy both REST and the high level of testability. The available response types in ASP.NET Core including recently released 2.2 version are ...read more
Handling data concurrency in EF Core and ASP.NET Core WebAPI
Data concurrency in Entity Framework Core
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Entity Framework Core implements optimistic concurrency strategy which is opposite to pessimistic concurrency strategy. Lets's first clear out what are main differences between these two approaches in concurrency control. Optimistic concurrency control allows multiple processes to access and modify data without any explicit lock on the data...read more
Setting up Swagger to support versioned API endpoints in ASP.NET Core
Adding Swagger support for versioned REST Web API endpoints
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Versioning of your endpoints is important especially if you have 3rd party dependent clients of your REST API service. Any change in your endpoint, for example in data structure may impact clients even if it is backward compatible, clients may process your endpoint data in different ways, so even adding one additional property to your model may also impact functionality of the client which is consuming your endpoint. Prerequisites ...read more
Using custom request and response serializers in ASP.NET Core
Configuring input and output serailzer/deserialier in ASP.NET Core pipeline
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This is not a new subject and the support for handling WebApi input and output was introduced in .NET Core 2.0 and it's been there since then. There are couple of useful pages out there and it is even well documented on Microsoft official page Custom formatters in ASP.NET Core Web API...read more
Simple pixel conversion tracking implementation in ASP.NET Core WebApi
Conversion tracking implementation using pixel method in ASP.NET Core
 
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Pixel tracking, although it is the oldest method for tracking conversions in marketing, it is still used widely and some big companies like Facebook are still overing it as one of the methods for tracking the conversions of on your web pages. Tracking conversion via pixel method is still widely used because of it's simplicity...read more
How to get client IP Address in ASP.NET Core 2
Fetching client IP address in ASP.NET Core
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As ASP.NET was evolving, there were different ways accessing client IP address from the request. The way to do it WebForms and MVC Web application is simply accessing request of the current HTTP context ...read more

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