ASP.NET Identity is much more powerful than legacy ASP.NET Membership which includes the support of external authentication from 3rd party providers. In one of my projects, I have an ASP.NET MVC app communicating with another ASP.NET Web Service app which contains all core business logic and data access. The MVC application essentially is just another... Continue Reading →
How to mock ASP.NET Core Identity?
I was having a bit of issue when I tried to test my class which needs UserManager<ApplicationUser> object and RoleManager<IdentityRole> object in constructor method. Both classes are from new membership system called ASP.NET Core Identity. You can learn more from Introduction to Identity on ASP.NET Core When I first googled for my problem, some people... Continue Reading →
Generate absolute URLs in ASP.NET MVC
Sometimes it's easier to create relative URL in development using Url.Content("~/yourimage.png"). It seems to be quicker to code this way. However, there are times that I need to generate absolute URL for public facing websites where SEO matters. Quickly google "why absolute url matters in seo", there is quite a number of blogs or articles... Continue Reading →
My journey of using Join, GroupJoin and GroupBy – Part 2
As I continued doing my migration process to convert my existing project from ASP.NET Web Form to ASP.NET MVC using Entity Framework from my previous post, I had abit of issue with SQL LEFT JOIN. Basically, the SQL keywords return all records from left table and matched records from right table. NULL is returned from... Continue Reading →
My journey of using Join, GroupJoin and GroupBy – Part 1
As I was doing a migration process to convert existing project from ASP.NET Web Form to ASP.NET MVC using Entity Framework, I came across a bunch of SQL statements. Yeah, I know, we should not have any SQL statements in C# codes. Thus, while I was going thru all my codes to remove all SQL... Continue Reading →
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