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ASP.NET Identity 1.0 Release version

A while ago I wrote a blog post about the preview version of ASP.NET Identity. Now its time to see what the final version 1.0 looks like. As we will see the library has evolved quite a bit since the preview. ASP.

HTML5 Document Viewer Groupdocs

The quest for a HTML5 document viewer

Background My first thought when we were planning the project was to go with something like Google Docs Viewer or a similar solution, but since the application will be running on the clients intranet, this was a no go. Neither the application nor the

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Creating multilingual support using AngularJS

"Create multilingual support for the web site". I just got this task for a client project, and I think it’s fair to assume that others will get this task in the future, so this blog post shows how I implemented this for my project.

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Scaling concurrent connections with node.js and Socket.IO on IIS

These days I am working on a websockets-solution based on node.js and Socket.IO. With my development server running in Azure on IIS behind the brilliant iisnode I had everything set up and ready for performing some basic load tests, or so I

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Patch Tuesday tip (especially useful for VM users)

After updating the .NET framework through Windows Update, you could experience a temporary performance degradation. For users of multiple VMs, this can be a big problem. Here is a tip for speeding up the process. First, a little background. My virtual environment is rigged

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Configuring the secure token signature algorithm in Thinktecture IdentityServerV2 core

Recently I implemented a POC of a custom STS using the thinktecture IdentityServerV2 core. For quick testing purposes i set up a relying party with a symmetric signing key, and got this working. Then i wanted to change this to sign with a certificate.

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Authorize and RequireHttps attributes in MVC with claims and ADFS/WIF

Do you struggle with this error? ID1059: Cannot authenticate (...)? We're here to help. But be warned, facepalms might occur. Update 2013-09-08 After a while, I still had errors, even with the attributes in the correct order in my code. So what was

Forms authentication using ASP.NET Identity & VS 2013 Preview

One of the many new features of Visual Studio 2013 is the new membership system called ASP.NET Identity. The old SimpleMembershipProvider has been replaced. In line with the unification of ASP.NET, ASP.NET Identity can be used for all types of ASP.

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Making RequireJS play nice with ASP.NET MVC

Working with web-projects are getting more and more Javascript heavy, and good developers as we are, we cry out for structure! There are several ways of achieving structure when working with Javascript, and in this blogpost we'll look into RequireJS. This is

Typing the MVC Single Page Application Template

The new MVC Single Page Application Template included in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 is a good place to start if you want to learn more about how to write MVC Single Page Applications using JavaScript and Knockout. As we will see,

C-sharp Enum

A closer look at Enum

My inner nerd has always enjoyed ripping things apart to figure out what goes on inside of them. This week an Enum (which usually live quiet lives without making a big fuzz about themselves) presented me with some odd behaviour and a great opportunity

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Explicit error handling in commands

This post looks at how we can make it absolutley clear that exceptions may occur when executing commands. Also, we wish to force the developer to a least think of what to do. If we look at the previous posts on this blog by

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Implementing the C(ommand) in CQRS

In this post I'll show how easily you can implement the Command-part of CQRS in your application. If you don't know what CQRS (or Command Query Responsibility Separation for "short") is, you can read about it over at

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Load testing REST APIs

Your REST API project is in need of a load test, to confirm that it satisfies the clients needs. So, what tools do you use? This post is a round up of the ones I used, and my impressions. When creating load tests for

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Testable navigation with Stateless

A look at simple, yet powerful, navigation driven by a state machine, and how this can be used with asp.net MVC, asp.net Web forms or a test scenario. Implementing navigation in web applications is often shown as a menu, implemented using li

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Automated code quality testing using Roslyn

Roslyn is an exciting project from Microsoft which after years in the making is currently available as a community technology preview. It is described as a “compiler as a service” and promises to give you as a developer access to a rich set of

SSO auth craftmanship

Housekeeping matters

As both team and customer base grows, the pain of maintaining meta-data about customers and solutions follows. A quite common way to do this, which I have implemented and been the victim of, is to store all details in a wiki, CRM or issue

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Implementing Domainevents in your application

Disclaimer: This is not some invention by me. The code I'm presenting is written by me, but inspired by the work of others. I'm not taking credit for this approach, but simply conveying the principle :) Make sure to check out

Clean up your MVC app with SignalR

Update This blogpost was written with the 0.6b release of SignalR, and the examples wont necessarily work with the latest release. I've pushed working code with the latest SignalR version (1.0.1)on GitHub [https://github.com/yngvebn/Novanet.Blog.

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Creating a reusable base for WP7 apps - Commands

Commands In Part 2 [http://www.novanet.no/blog/yngve-bakken-nilsen/dates/2012/3/creating-a-reusable-base-for-wp7-apps/] we looked at how we could solve navigation in a managable way. I did this by the assumption that one view would have one viewmodel, and apparently this caused some

csharp boilerplate WP7

Creating a reusable base for WP7 apps - Navigation

Navigation In Part 1 [http://www.novanet.no/blog/yngve-bakken-nilsen/dates/2012/3/wp7-boilerplate/] we covered the basic stuff like ViewModels, setting up the project structure. In this part we'll move forward, and see how we can implement navigation and commands in

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Creating a reusable base for WP7 apps - Groundwork

Laying the groundwork New project Let's start out by creating an standard Windows Phone 7 app (selecting version 7.1 as the framework) ![New Project Screenshot](/content/images/2014/10/new-project.png) This should leave us with a codetty empty solution with

Getting Started

How to become a Microsoft Partner - Fast and easy

When you’re a small startup it is very important to make sure you know what help is available to you to make sure you grow and evolve at the right pace. Microsoft has lots of offers going to help spark new businesses around

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Consistent look and feel in a SharePoint 2010 farm

Developers love hierarchies, inheritance and reuse. In ASP.NET it is possible to create a hierarchy of master pages through nesting, where child master pages inherit the HTML framework from its parent master page. As SharePoint is built on ASP.NET, one could assume

Uploading files with HTML5 Canvas and File API in an MVC3 Application

In this post we’ll take a look at the File API, and dive a bit into how we can use it in order to make a simple and easy-to-understand user interface. We’ll start off by creating a general upload functionality with JavaScript

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