I am a Programmer, and I can Complicate the #@$% out of a Ball Bearing
Image by Oliver | Some Rights Reserved Sometimes the simplest of things elude us. We miss the forest for the trees. Or, we come up with what seems to be an elegant solution to a coding problem, only to realize (or, in my case,...
C#: Building a Useful, Extensible .NET Console Application Template for Development and Testing
Image by Christopher Rose | Some Rights Reserved How often do you find yourself tossing together a console application for the purpose of trying out code, “testing” in the sense of seeing what works best, or,...
ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Implementing Group-Based Permissions Management
Image by Thomas Hawk | Some Rights Reserved Earlier this year we looked at Implementing Group-Based Permissions Management using the ASP.NET Identity 1.0 framework. The objective of that project was to gain a little more...
ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Extensible Template Projects
Image by Tom Magliery | Some Rights Reserved We’ve spent the last few posts looking at various customizations of the basic Identity Samples project. I decided to take what we’ve learned so far and create a general,...
ASP.NET Identity 2.0 Extending Identity Models and Using Integer Keys Instead of Strings
Image by Josh Cowper | Some Rights Reserved The ASP.NET Identity framework was released to manufacture on March 20 2014, bringing with it a slew of long-awaited enhancements, delivering a fully-formed authentication and...
ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Customizing Users and Roles
Image By Herry Lawford | Some Rights Reserved The ASP.NET Identity team released the Identity 2.0 framework RTM back in march. The new release contained significant additions to the functionality found in the original 1.0...
Biggy: Interface Semantics and The Interface Segregation Principle
Image by Dennis Yang | Some Rights Reserved Over the past few months I’ve been working hard on Rob Conery’s Biggy project, a high-performance, in-memory query and persistence tool for .NET. Recently, the...
ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Setting Up Account Validation and Two-Factor Authorization
Image by Lucas | Some Rights Reserved With the release of the Identity 2.0 framework in March of 2014, the Identity team has added a significant set of new features to the previously simple, but somewhat minimal ASP.NET Identity...
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...