Refit is a great little library for simplifying consumption of REST Web APIs, that even allows authentication via support for HTTP authorization header injection in Refit’s settings during set up.
Category: .NET Development
.NET development content.
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Using Refit in .NET
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.NET Blazor Performance Recommendations
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Blazor is a .NET-based Component Architecture platform that is offered as a potential alternative to other modern frameworks such as Angular or ReactJS for responsive web development.
If you are familiar with other Component Architecture frameworks and are also a .NET developer then moving to Blazor should be fairly straightforward. But, there are some caveats and design constraints you should consider in Blazor that you might not worry about in other frameworks.
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Injecting Claims into the ASP.NET Core Auth Pipeline
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Most modern cloud authentication providers (i.e. Microsoft Entra ID, Auth0, Okta, etc.) provide a claims-based user management capability. A user can be assigned roles and permissions and these are surfaced in .NET’s user identity classes as ‘claims’.
Although, most of the time, claims can be configured and managed in the identity provider’s management console there may be times when you want to inject additional claims, and this article discusses how that can be done.
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Sending Emails Using Microsoft Graph
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With Microsoft iminently shuttering the capability to send emails programmatically via MS Exchange in Azure, developers need to switch to a mechanism that will be supported moving forwards. Enter Microsoft Graph. This article describes how the MS Graph API can be leveraged to replace MS Exchange based mailing for the programmatic sending of emails.
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Implementing the Respository Pattern with Entity Framework and LINQ Expressions
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When working with layers of abstraction, especially in modern design structures like Clean Architecture, it can easily become complicated getting a simple database query from the UI to the physcial database provider being queried due to all the abstraction and indirection. An obvious way of abstracting an application from any single underlying data provider is by implementing the Repository pattern.
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Defensive Programming
(more…)Defensive programming is a set of techniques/guidance on best practices to ensure your applications are secure, as bug free as possible, and respond gracefully to unexpected events (i.e. software exceptions).
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Convert DOCX to PDF Using Microsoft Graph API
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Converting a file from DOCX to another format (such as PDF) had long been a pain in SharePoint and usually led to resorting to using Word Automation Services (WAS). Fortunately, modern SharePoint (Online) and the Microsoft Graph API mean you can do it with a few Web API calls.
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Investigating Issues with IISExpress Not Running on Some SSL Ports
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IISExpress, bundled with Visual Studio, provides a lighter-weight web server than the full IIS (Internet Information Services) Windows service, and is useful for running up and debugging web code projects.
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Per-Machine Web Config in ASP.NET Projects
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When working on multi-developer projects, if each developer machine isn’t configured the same way developers can waste a lot of time editing connection strings, local machine name, and other settings when pulling code projects from source code control. On ASP.NET code projects, you can configure per-machine configuration overrides to overcome this.
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Getting SharePoint Site Templates To Work On Different Environments
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If you work with SharePoint custom site templates regularly, and your organisation has separated development, test, and production environments, then you’ll probably have come across the issue where a custom site template you’ve saved in one environment as a solution package (WSP) uploads and activates fine in another environment but then fails with the familiar obscure message and correlation ID when you attempt to create a new site.