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Announcing: Building an Async API with ASP.NET Core Course Published at Pluralsight

I’m very happy to announce that today my new Pluralsight course, Building an Async API with ASP.NET Core, went live!  Here’s what you can expect: Coding an asynchronous API comes with its own set of challenges. In this course, Building an Async API with ASP.NET Core, you will gain the ability to increase the scalability… Read more »

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New Release: Marvin.Cache.Headers 2.0

I’m very happy to announce that Marvin.Cache.Headers just hit 2.0.  Marvin.Cache.Headers is middleware for ASP.NET Core which adds HttpCache headers to responses (Cache-Control, Expires, ETag, Last-Modified) and implements cache expiration & validation models. It can be used to ensure caches correctly cache responses and/or to implement concurrency for REST-based APIs using ETags. It’s a pretty… Read more »

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Cleaner API Code with ResultFilter and ValueTuple

When building APIs the amount of code inside of controller actions has a tendency to spin out of control, become repetitive and not so easy to reuse.  For a recent client project I’m working on I tried a new approach: result filters combined with C#7’s value tuples.  I was quite happy with how it turned… Read more »

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Announcing: Securing ASP.NET Core 2 with OAuth2 and OpenID Connect Course Published at Pluralsight

A while ago I created a Pluralsight course focused on securing ASP.NET Core with OAuth2 and OpenID Connect.  That one was built using ASP.NET Core 1.1.  I got a lot questions asking for a new course that would focus on ASP.NET Core 2, as quite a bit changed in regards to authentication/authorization between Core 1… Read more »

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Solving Correlation Failed: State Property Not Found Errors (OpenID Connect Middleware / ASP.NET Core)

Recently we ran into an issue at one of my clients when integrating an ASP.NET Core application with an IDP using the OpenID Connect middleware.  When running the application locally everything worked as expected: the middleware takes care of most of the hard work as far as generating the calls the authorization & token endpoints,… Read more »

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Techorama Session: OpenID Connect in Depth Code and Slides

I just finished my Techorama session on OpenID Connect in Depth.  It covered subjects like single sign-on and single sign-out, when to use reference tokens & how to revoke tokens, how to create a custom grant to let a user’s identity flow from API to API without having to create “one access token to rule… Read more »

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My Pluralsight Courses

Securing ASP.NET Core 2 with OAuth2 and OpenID Connect

When you’re building an ASP.NET Core 2 MVC web app or API, you’ll want to secure it sooner than later. In this course, you’ll learn how to utilize OAuth2 and OpenID Connect, today’s widely-used standards, to help you achieve your goals efficiently.

  • Intermediate

  • June 21st, 2018

Upgrading Your ASP.NET Core 1.x Web API to 2.0

ASP.NET Core 2 incorporates a few important changes and new features. This course will teach you how to upgrade your existing web API, built with ASP.NET Core 1.x, to ASP.NET Core 2.0.

  • Beginner

  • October 19th, 2017

Securing ASP.NET Core with OAuth2 and OpenID Connect

When you’re building an ASP.NET Core MVC web app or API, you’ll want to secure it sooner than later. In this course, you’ll learn how to utilize OAuth2 and OpenID Connect, today’s widely-used standards, to help you achieve your goals efficiently.

  • Intermediate

  • August 7th, 2017

Building a RESTful API with ASP.NET Core

APIs should adhere to the constraints enforced by the REST architectural style. By doing that, you’ll end up with a stable, functional, and predictable API, standardized where possible.

  • Intermediate

  • March 13th, 2017

Building Your First API with ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core signify the direction Microsoft is taking with its developer frameworks. In this course, you’ll learn about the important concepts of ASP.NET Core related to building an API.  Updated for ASP.NET Core 2.0, 2017/09.

  • Beginner

  • November 7th, 2016

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