Analysis and Insights on #netcore

OpenIdConnect - Proxy Authentication Required

While working through setup and configuration of Identity Server 4, I came across this authentication proxy issue. Maybe this will help you out.

Your connection is not private–Google Chrome

Working local, working with https? Got your desktop environment working well, however while using Chrome and browsing you get this "not private" error. You can continue working/browsing if you click through advanced and proceed. This is great but if you are reading this my bet you are looking for a better solution. Read on!

ANCM InProcess Start Failure Shenanigans

Common issue with .net core solutions when you deploy to a server and get ANCM In-Process failures

DateTimeOffset Confusion

For many years, dates, times, time zones, new language date types such as datetimeoffset have confused developers. I am writing this in hopes that you can refresh some details about the often used datetimeoffset type.

String Comparisons

Yes! There really are 6 ways to compare strings within .NET (I suspect other languages as well). Hopefully this will shed some light on the options.

ASP.NET Core 3 Things I Learned / Pro Tips / Migration to ASP.NET Core 3

Moving from ASP.NET Core 2 to ASP.NET 3 (Migration) there were a number of 'things' I picked up and decided I would document as I moved through the application. New Program.cs and Startup.cs changes, new logging configuration changes, and default ASP.NET Core tips included.

ASP.NET CORE–Slow Start Up

In an effort to speed up my development process, I determined that changing the logging level, even in development made a huge difference. Keep this in mind, and let me know if you find this useful.

HttpClient Saga and Related Notes Links

Recently, we migrated our applications to latest windows server from 2008 and ran into a number of issues with sockets, connection limits and timeouts. The root of our issues is the default connection limits that we had not encountered before. Below is part of our investigation and subsequent resolution to these issues.

Attaching to .NET Debugger w/Visual Studio ASP.NET Core

You have a website up and running, and now you want to connect the Visual Studio Debugger. This is often the case if you do not start with F5 - Debug to start the browser and automatically attach to the .net debugger. In reality, I almost never push F5. Instead, I attach to the debugger on the fly with the approach below. Take a moment to check it out.

Vue App and MVC Routing w/Visual Studio ASP.NET Core

Vue.js SPA routing conflicts with MVC routing. Short article reviewing the options, and an approach on how to get both working nicely together.

Starting a Vue App w/Visual Studio ASP.NET Core 2

I created my Vue project, included it with my ASP.NET Core project. For more information reference my prior post on Vue with ASP.NET Core.

Getting Started Vue.js w/Visual Studio ASP.NET Core 1

So starting this off, looking for a Vue.js SPA template within Visual Studio…nope not available. Using command line dotnet new –l you can see it is not within the template package from Microsoft.

xUnit–what is it and why another unit testing framework

Primarily XUnit leverages some new features to help developers write cleaner test, as tests should be kept clean and treated as first-class citizens.

.NET Standard vs. .NET Core

Core vs. Standard has come up a lot recently. I wanted to re-emphasize the differences here for my own purposes using references mentioned below. Really important to know and understand.

.NET ‘Roslyn’ Compiler Platform

.NET Releases & Versions in 2015

Generic(Collection) Usage in the .NET Framework

Nullable Types in .NET Framework

Within the .NET Framework data types such as Boolean can either be true or false. Right? Well, with the release of 2.0 Framework it has been possible to create nullable data types. A nullable type can represent all the values of the underlying type plus empty (or undefined). In the case of our Boolean it would be True/False and Nothing.

Design Guidelines– Classes vs. Structures

My goal is to cover some .NET 4 Platform features through a series of ‘guideline’ type entries demonstrating some new and existing functionality.