ASP.NET MVC and Identity 2.0: Understanding the Basics
Image by Ryan Somma | Some Rights Reserved On March 20, 2014, the ASP.NET team released the RTM version 2.0 of the new Identity framework. The new release brings with it some long-awaited new features, and marks a substantial...
ASP.NET MVC: Keep Private Settings Out of Source Control
Image by Rina Pitucci | Some Rights Reserved It is just too easy to accidentally push confidential information up to a publicly hosted source repository such as Github. Also, when managing a project with multiple developers, it...
Biggy: Evolving the Architecture
Image by Ian Kershaw | Some Rights Reserved Recently, K. Scott Allen proposed a re-thinking of the fundamental architecture for Rob Conery’s Biggy project. Over the past month, the project has grown from a simple,...
Building Biggy: Resolving Dissonance Between Domain Objects and Backing Store Entities
Image by Dee Ashley | Some Rights Reserved I’ve recently been hard at work contributing to an exciting new open source project, Rob Conery’s Biggy. Biggy is just getting off the ground, so things are evolving rapidly,...
Biggy: A Fresh Look at High-Performance, Synchronized In-Memory Persistence for .NET
Image by Elif Ayiter | Some Rights Reserved About a month ago, Rob Conery popped off with the following tweet: And hence, Biggy was born. Rob’s “most ridiculous thing he has ever created” has quickly morphed...
C#: Using Reflection and Custom Attributes to Map Object Properties
Image by Elizabeth Briel | Some Rights Reserved I have a general distaste for decorating my code with Attributes and Annotations. Most of the time, I can’t help but feel like there must be a better way to accomplish what I...
ASP.NET MVC 5 Identity: Implementing Group-Based Permissions Management Part II
Image by Kool | Some Rights Reserved This is the second part of a two-part series in which we figure out how to implement a basic Group-based permissions management system using the ASP.NET MVC 5 Identity system. In this series,...
ASP.NET MVC 5 Identity: Implementing Group-Based Permissions Management Part I
Image by Shaun Dunmall | Some Rights Reserved Over the course of several recent articles, we’re examined various ways and means of working with and extending the ASP.NET Identity System. We’ve covered the basics of...
ASP.NET MVC 5 Identity: Extending and Modifying Roles
Image by Hay Kranen | Some Rights Reserved In a recent article I took a rather long look at extending the ASP.NET 5 Identity model, adding some custom properties to the basic IdentityUser class, and also some basic role-based...
Send Email to Selected Recipients from your ASP.NET MVC Web Application Part II
Image by Sergio Quesada | Some Rights Reserved This is the second part of an article demonstrating how to build out an application for sending personalized email to recipients selected from a list. In the first part, we put...