Avoiding SQL Server plan cache pollution with EF Core 3 and Enumerable.Contains() One of the many advantages of using a tool like Entity Framework Core is, that you are sure that the framework will generate properly parameterized SQL for you. This helps avoid SQL injection issues and avoids plan cache pollution. Unfortunately, EF Core ...
.NET for Apache® Spark™ In-Memory DataFrame Support | .NET Blog .NET for Apache Spark is aimed at making Apache® Spark™, and thus the exciting world of big data analytics, accessible to .NET developers. .NET for Spark can be used for processing batches of data, real-time streams, machine learning, and ad-hoc query.
Community Tutorial: Using NPoco with CockroachDB and C# / .NET Core | Cockroach Labs Hi, I’m Darrien, and I’m building a distributed, near-real time, “OSINT data reconnaissance” system. For this system, I’ll be using CockroachDB for its distribu
Offline storage in a PWA When you are building any kind of application it's typical to want to store information which persists beyond a single user session. Sometim...
Hands-on guide: developing and deploying Node.js apps in Kubernetes Learning how to design and architect applications that leverage Kubernetes is the most valuable skill that you could learn to be successful in deploying and scaling your traffic to millions of requests and beyond.
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Production Debugging for .NET meets Infrastructure as Code | Ozcode Deploy Ozcode Production Debugger to Azure using Pulumi, next-gen IaC, to enable easy debugging of your .NET Apps and services. Learn more >
Totally made up conversations about choosing Entity Framework version numbers All your versions are belong to us
Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.0 Preview 2 The SqlClient team is moving forward with continuous updates and improvements to the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient data provider for SQL Server. Our plan is to provide GA releases twice a year with two preview releases in between. This cadence should provide t...
Optimize database traffic with future results in NHibernate How to use future results and delayed queries in NHibernate to optimize database traffic. Send and retrieve multiple queries with one batch to database.
Standing up a local Sql Server development DB w/ Bullseye, Docker, and Roundhouse For one of our Calavista engagements we’re working with a client who has a deep technical investment in Sql Server with their database migrations authored in RoundHousE. The existing project …
Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible. There is a huge opportunity for the creation of private client-side-only PWAs in the world but developers wanting to build such apps are in for an uphill battle against the status quo and now against Apple as well. I've just read a post by Aral Balkan ent...
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How to Use the Shadow Property in Entity Framework Core Learn how to use the shadow property (also known as the Navigation, Auditable or Tracking property) in Entity Framework Core.
.NET Transactional File Manager Migrated to GitHub – Chinh Do I have migrated the .NET Transactional File Manager project to GitHub from CodePlex. I originally wrote about it in this blog post.
Windows Terminal 1.0 is coming - Update now and set up your split pane hotkeys! The Windows Terminal is free and in the Windows Store and you should go make sure you have the latest update. The v0.10 ...
The March 2020 release of Azure Data Studio is now available - SQL Server Blog The March release of Azure Data Studio is now available. Download Azure Data Studio and review the release notes to get started. Please note: After downloading Azure Data Studio, say Yes to enabling preview features so that you can use extensions. Azure D...
YAGNI, Cargo Cult and Overengineering - the Planes Won’t Land Just Because You Built a Runway in Your Backyard This article explorers cargo cult software development practice where developers blindly choose tools just because other (often much largers companies) are using the same tools.
EF Core 5.0: Using ToQueryString() method to translate LINQ query to SQL EF Core 5.0 comes with ToQueryString() method that translates LINQ queries to provider-specific SQL queries. Here is how it works.
Shay Rojansky’s Blog Microsoft software engineer working on .NET data access and perf, member of the Entity Framework team. Lead dev of Npgsql, the PostgreSQL provider.
Major data breach exposes database of 200 million users 800GB of personal user information was left unsecured online
Working with EF Core Migrations - Irina Scurtu How to handle migrations with EF Core? Migrations in a different library than your main project? How to add EF Core Migrations
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Lessons learned porting Octopus Server to .NET Core 3.1 - Octopus Deploy We ported Octopus Server to .NET Core 3.1 to unlock the ability to run on Linux, Docker Containers, and Kubernetes. This post shares lessons learned along the way.
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NDC Security Australia - Hack Yourself First with Troy Hunt and Scott Helme NDC Security Australia - Hack Yourself First Workshop (Online): Troy Hunt and Scott Helme will be running an online Hack Yourself First Workshop with NDC Conferences through Zoom.us. Please note that the workshop hours are 09:00-17:00 and is scheduled in ...
Avoid In-Memory Databases for Tests A controversial GitHub issue came to my attention a couple of weeks ago around ditching the in-memory provider for Entity Framework Core. This seemed like a no-brainer to me - these database providers are far from trivial to maintain, even for in-memory s...
Visual Studio for Mac: Become a Productivity Pro | Visual Studio Blog Despite continued advancement and innovation in the IDE space, the bottom line is that IDEs are a productivity tool. As a software developer, the value of an IDE is directly related to how much using the tool increases your productivity. Subsequently,
The Staging Phase of Deployment - Simple Talk Despite some humorous examples of deployments gone wrong, failures are not funny. William Brewer explains why staging is so important and how it can help avoid the types of disasters he recalls in this article.
.NET Foundation Here's the February/March 2020 .NET Foundation update. Every month, we'll give you a quick overview of the .NET Open Source landscape, including top project news, events, community links and more.
The good parts of AWS - A visual summary A summary of Daniel Vassallo and Josh Pschorr Ebook. Find out about the secrets of DynamoDB, S3, EC2, Lambda and others. A Guide for AWS DevOps enthusiasts.
We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead | The Old New Thing The history of defect tracking in the Windows team goes back to Windows 1.0, which used a text file. After Windows 1.01 released, a bunch of people in the apps division got together and threw together a bug tracking database. Because hey,
Upgrading from ASP.NET Core 3.1 to 5.0 (Preview 1) - Steve Gordon In this post, I cover the steps required to upgrade some projects from the ASP.NET Core 3.1 to the first preview of .NET 5 and ASP.NET Core 5.0.
Size of Visual Studio Ever wonder how large Visual Studio is? This public comment from the MSDN feedback gives some good stats:
Remote access to on-premises apps - Azure AD Application Proxy Azure Active Directory's Application Proxy provides secure remote access to on-premises web applications. After a single sign-on to Azure AD, users can access both cloud and on-premises applications through an external URL or an internal application porta...
Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 1 | .NET Blog Today we are excited to announce the first preview release of EF Core 5.0. Prerequisites The previews of EF Core 5.0 require .NET Standard 2.1. This means: EF Core 5.0 runs on .NET Core 3.1; it does not require .NET 5.
Open-source bug bonanza: Vulnerabilities up almost 50 per cent thanks to people actually looking for them Can't fix flaws if you don't look for them
Unit Testing Entry and Entry Points — Roy Osherove Let’s talk about the word “unit” in unit testing. To me, a unit stands for “unit of work” or a “use case” inside the system. A unit of work has a beginning and an end. I call these entry points and exit points . A simple example of a unit of wo...
Tip 255 - What's Azure Private Link and how can I get started? It is very important to secure all aspects of your application, including your data communications. This can be difficult as services in the cloud are often exposed to the public internet. Azure Private Link can help to secure traffic between Azure servic...
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PolicyServer Authorization is hard - and authorization is often conflated with authentication and identity. We think that tightly coupling "Identity and Access Management" in a single solution is the wrong approach. These two c...
The Evolution of Windows Search | Windows Search Platform Welcome to our new blog focusing on all things related to the Windows Search Platform, also known over the years as Windows Desktop Search, the Indexing Service, WSearch, and the Content Indexer. This is the first post in what will be a 4-part series cove...
Storage 101: Understanding the NAND Flash Solid State Drive - Simple Talk Today, most organization are using solid-state drives for everything from laptops to enterprise database storage and virtual machines. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains how NAND flash solid-state drives work.
We made SQL visual - why and how Through months of design, prototypes, and user tests we made a visual version of SQL - which has proven to enable 80% of business users to write complex quer…
The goal of your testing strategy I run across this article, which talks about unit testing. There isn’t anything there that would be ground breaking, but I run across this quote, and I felt ...
ongoing by Tim Bray · Facet: Deduping When you fire an event into the cloud, can you be sure it’ll only come out again once? It turns out that sometimes they come out more often than they go in. This may or may not be a problem in your application. If it is, there are techniques to...
External Identity Provider with ASP.NET Core Identity - Code Maze In this article, we are going to learn how to configure an External Identity Provider with ASP.NET Core Identity and how to implement it in our solution.
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Bringing full-stack to the JAMstack An opinionated Javascript framework that combines React, GraphQL, Prisma2, SQL, and lots more out of the box.
Distributed DMX with Apache Ignite A little known fact is that the original, intelligent lights and programming hardware formed a distributed system. Each light had its own on-board memory which was used to store the different state…
Announcing the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator Mark Suzman announces the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator, a partnership between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard. The initiative aims to identify potential treatments for COVID-19, accelerate their development, and prepare ...
Getting Started with ML.NET Model Builder for using in ASP.NET Core How to create ML.NET Application using ML.NET Model Builder and use the trained model to predict the result in ASP.NET Core.
Cloud migration: 5 common traps and how to avoid them For most organizations, migrating to the cloud involves 4 phases – opportunistic, cloud-first, ‘all-in’ and cloud-native. Find out the traps along the way.
Using git tag for Presentations or Workshops While we hope it never happens, demo failures happen when presenting talks or doing workshops. I do not know of a speaker that has not had a demo go bad while up on stage or live streams. Many of us have a back up plan… After searching around for solution...
Comparing OpenAPI / Swagger, GraphQL, and gRPC I’ve been preparing for a talk at Twin Cities Code Camp 2020 ( which will compare and contrast the more common and traditional OpenAPI or Swagger APIs (sometimes called REST APIs in a general…
A Template for Clean Domain-Driven Design Architecture A software architectural template for applying Clean Domain-Driven Design and CQRS to your own solutions
Automatic indexes and garbage collection, features that you shouldn’t need which save the day I recently got into an interesting discussion about one of the most interesting features of RavenDB, the ability to automatically deduce and create indexes o...
Tip 254 - Use WAF to protect your web applications with Azure Front Door When you run an application on the web, it is going to be attacked. Your website will be attacked with SQL Injection attacks, Cross-site scripting attacks and every other attack in the OWASP top 10 and beyond. You need to protect your application from the...
How Websites Evolved Back to Static HTML/CSS/JS Files — Photo by Hal Gatewood on Unsplash How Websites Evolved Back to Static HTML/CSS/JS Files Or, the JAM stack. Everyone likes to talk about the good old days of simply being able to create a new file with a .html extension and start making a website instead o...
MYBP (Maybe You’ve Been Pwned) System’s back, and this time he’s talkin’ about security, HaveIBeenPwned, and how to choose a good password. There’s a tl;dr at the end.
EARN IT is a direct attack on end-to-end encryption Yesterday a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators introduced a new bill called the EARN IT act. On its face, the bill seems like a bit of inside baseball having to do with legal liability for informati…
Virgin Media Disclosure Statement | TurgenSec This is our statement in response to the two most common questions sent to us by journalists following our disclosure to Virgin Media of a breach on 28th of February. This included personal information corresponding to approximately nine hundred thousand ...
Build apps for free with Azure Cosmos DB Free Tier | Azure Cosmos DB Blog This blog post was co-authored by Nikisha Reyes-Grange, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure Marketing. Introducing Azure Cosmos DB Free Tier Looking to build a new app, develop and test, or run small production workloads with Azure Cosmos DB? Our new ...
Home | Jovica Turčinović Hi, I am Jovica. I have been engaged in software design since 1993. I am an experienced Microsoft .NET Developer in: - .NET programming language, SQL (SQL Server, MySql, DAL), Knockout JS, Umbraco CMS, EPiServer CMS, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Sof...
My New Role as Senior Program Manager for .NET Data I recently accepted a new role at Microsoft as Senior Program Manager for .NET Data. This post explains the history behind the decision, what I'll be doing and how you can help.
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CQRS: Refactoring Queries without Repositories - CodeOpinion Should you eager or lazy load navigation properties in your Aggregate Root? The answer is neither by using queries without Repositories or Aggregate Roots.
Millions of tiny databases Millions of tiny databases, Brooker et al., NSDI’20 This paper is a real joy to read. It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of …
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What the f*** were they thinking?! Crazy website biases exposed by naughty words lists (the NSFW version) I’ve long held the view that passwords should consist of as many crazy things as the owner deems fit. If I want to create a password that looks like a dog just ate the keyboard and threw up all the keys, then good for me. (Chances are that
Data Incident Information | Help & Advice Some personal information, stored on one of our databases, has been accessed without permission. Here is the most important information you need to know
Uncle Sam compensates you for data leaks (yeah, right) Under the pretext of compensation for data leaks, fraudsters are selling "temporary U.S. social security numbers."
“Let’s use Kubernetes!” Now you have 8 problems If you’re using Docker, the next natural step seems to be Kubernetes, aka K8s: that’s how you run things in production, right? Well, maybe. Solutions designed for 500 software engineers working on the same application are quite different than solutions fo...
F# Publications | The F# Software Foundation F# is about clarity of thinking and expression - “computational thinking made manifest” - and is loved by academics and researchers for bringing clear, concise problem solving techniques developed in academia into practice. F# is both based on academic r...
Have I Been S0ld? No, trusted security website HIBP off the table, will remain independent Owner Troy Hunt staying in the saddle after potential deal falls through
SAFE Adventures in F# – Azure From The Trenches If you're looking for help with C#, .NET, Azure, Architecture, or would simply value an independent opinion then please get in touch here or over on Twitter.
Tip 252 - Securing your managed Databases in Azure Microsoft Azure provides support for a wide variety of commercial (SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance) and open source databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB). When it comes to protecting your data, Azure provides different security layers. Let's discus...
MSSQL data and log files on Azure blob storage Keeping MSSQL data and log files on Azure blob storage is easy and beneficial. Here's how to do it and my conclusions of the experiment.
Project LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger to be faster, smaller, and simpler To build this new version of Messenger, we needed to rebuild the architecture from the ground up and rewrite the entire codebase.
Introducing GitTrends: GitHub Insights iOS Android I am so excited to release GitTrends on Product Hunt today! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/gittrends-github-insights GitTrends helps you to monitor your GitHub Repositories: ✅ Connect to GitHub ✅ Monitor GitHub Repo Views ✅ Monitor GitHu...
Tesco issues warning to 600,000 Clubcard holders The supermarket warns that some accounts may have been compromised, but no data has been stolen.
Better passwords in Ruby applications with the Pwned Passwords API The Pwned Passwords API can tell you if a password has been seen in a data breach before. Use it in your Ruby application to encourage better passwords.
Identity column vs ETL Process - Simple Talk Creating ETL process can pose so many challenges we will only fully discover them when really building the ETL. Before you complain about modelling, the
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Overview of Azure Cache for Redis - Simple Talk Caching data is one way to improve application performance. In this article, Chandra Kudumla explains a service for caching data found in Azure called Azure Cache for Redis.
Adding Observability to .NET Core Apps ASP.NET Blog | Based on customers using .NET Core in different environments, this article explores options for adding observability to .NET Core apps.
Don’t try to sanitize input. Escape output. Why you should escape output correctly, but generally not sanitize user input.
Israeli Marketing Company Exposes Contacts Database An Israeli marketing company left the authentication credentials for a database online, exposing more than 140 GB worth of names, email addresses and phone numbers.
Hasura raises $9.9M Series A to simplify GraphQL for developers – TechCrunch Hasura, a startup working to solve developer problems around connecting to databases when using the open-source GraphQL tool, announced a $9.9 million Series A investment today. Vertex Ventures US led the round, with participation from SAP.iO Fund and exi...
Implementing POST-REDIRECT-GET in ASP.NET Core Razor Pages Let's see how to implement POST-REDIRECT-GET in our Razor Pages apps by changing OnGet and OnPost.
REST Commands and Queries in VS Code - ardalis Recently in one of our great devBetter discussions, Rick Hodder (go follow him now) shared a cool extension for VS Code. Basically, it lets you turn VS Code into a REST client. Think of it like a combination of Postman and Azure Data Studio (or LinqPad or...
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No raw data, no science: another possible source of the reproducibility crisis A reproducibility crisis is a situation where many scientific studies cannot be reproduced. Inappropriate practices of science, such as HARKing, p-hacking, and selective reporting of positive results, have been suggested as causes of irreproducibility. In...
A History of Entity Framework I recently had the honor of appearing on The 6 Figure Developer podcast. I reminisced about the history of Entity Framework and the role I’ve been blessed to play in it. Have a listen!
Handling Huge Traffic Spikes with Azure Functions and Cloudflare Back in 2016, I wrote a blog post about the Martin Lewis Money show featuring HIBP and how it drove an unprecedented spike of traffic to the service, ultimately knocking it offline for a brief period of time. They'd given me a heads up as apparently, that...
When ASP.NET Core can't find your controller: debugging application parts In this post I describe application parts, how ASP.NET Core uses them to find the controllers in your app, and how to list them.
10K Request per Second: REST API with Azure SQL, Dapper and JSON In the previous article I described how easy is to create a REST API with Python and Azure SQL. But what about .NET? Would that be as easy as well? Absolutely yes: the native support to JSON offered by Azure SQL will also help a lot again. In addition to ...
EA and Visual Studio’s Linux Support | C++ Team Blog EA is using Visual Studio’s cross-platform support to cross-compile on Windows and debug on Linux. The following post is written by Ben May, a Senior Software Engineer of Engineering Workflows at EA. Thanks Ben and EA for your partnership, and for helping...
Storage 101: Understanding the Hard-Disk Drive - Simple Talk In this article in the series, Robert Sheldon provides a deep dive into HDDs.
C# - Sealed and internal - how to use in unit test? Shows how to create a new instance of a sealed class without any public constructors. Reflection to the rescue!
CQRS + Event Sourcing – Step by Step | Learn CQRS and Event Sourcing A step-by-step overview of the parts of a CQRS ES based system and how they fit together. Focusing on the flow from Command through to Read Model.
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Entity Framework Weekly Status Updates (2020) · Issue #19549 · dotnet/efcore This issue contains status updates from the Entity Framework team to provide insight into what we are focused on, progress made, and other interesting highlights from the week. More Information Bro...
Entity Framework Weekly Status Updates (2020) · Issue #19549 · dotnet/efcore This issue contains status updates from the Entity Framework team to provide insight into what we are focused on, progress made, and other interesting highlights from the week. More Information Bro...
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How do you do multiple inserts with npgsql (batch not serial) · Issue #2779 · npgsql/npgsql Hey there, I had a look around google for howto do something relatively simple like: INSERT INTO order_side (id) VALUES ('OTHER'),('MARKETSALE'),('MARKETBUY'),('LIMITBUY...
Entity Framework Weekly Status Updates (2020) · Issue #19549 · dotnet/efcore This issue contains status updates from the Entity Framework team to provide insight into what we are focused on, progress made, and other interesting highlights from the week. More Information Bro...
Entity Framework Weekly Status Updates (2020) · Issue #19549 · dotnet/efcore This issue contains status updates from the Entity Framework team to provide insight into what we are focused on, progress made, and other interesting highlights from the week. More Information Bro...
Software platform dependency analysis with F# and Neo4j It's common for software platforms to consist of many deployed services that communicate with each other and connect to resources over the…
Episode 45 - Migrating Stack Overflow to .NET Core with Nick Craver In this episode of The .NET Core podcast we talked with Nick Craver about the on-going migration of Stack Overflow to .NET Core
MongoDB Transactions in .NET Applications This post gives you a general idea on Database Transactions, defines what transactions in MongoDB are and explains how to run your MongoDB as a replicaset. You will also learn how to use MongoDB Transactions in a .NET application.
Part 1 - Introduction and Setting up the REPL As a web developer, I use relational databases every day at my job, but they’re a black box to me. Some questions I have: What format is data saved in? (in memory and on disk) When does it move from memory to disk? Why can there only be one primary key pe...
ErikEJ/EFCorePowerTools Entity Framework Core Power Tools - reverse engineering, migrations and model visualization for EF Core - ErikEJ/EFCorePowerTools
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COPY | Npgsql Documentation PostgreSQL has a feature allowing efficient bulk import or export of data to and from a table. This is usually a much faster way of getting data in and out of a table than using INSERT and SELECT. See documentation for the COPY command for more details.
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Testing GitHub Oneboxes for Stack Overflow for Teams UPDATE: Some new features and bug fixes based on your feedback! PRs now render HTML that matches exactly with GitHub Links to the GitHub username now go to the user profile See the updates in the
Testing GitHub Oneboxes on Stack Overflow for Teams UPDATE: Some new features and bug fixes based on your feedback! PRs now render HTML that matches exactly with GitHub Links to the GitHub username now go to the user profile See the updates in the
A Brief Intro to Clean Architecture, Clean DDD, and CQRS A brief explanation of Clean Architecture, Clean Domain-Driven Design, and Command/Query Responsibility Segregation.
The Power of EventSourcing — Softwarepark We just had a nice experience while maintaining one of the applications we created for our customer and we wanted to share this with you! We are building a small ‘on-the-side’ project for a customer that supports the planing of a huge event with more tha...
Storing IoT Data in a database One question that comes up a lot when getting started with IoT is 'How do I store all this data?'. This is an important question - IoT creates a LOT of data, some of which can be analyzed on the fly, but there are a large number of cases where you want to...
Fundamental Concepts for Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database Elastic Jobs are currently in public preview. The feature is ready and we are preparing to make it officially generally available. No whitelisting or extra steps are required to get started. In my previous post, I explained what Elastic Jobs are and w...
How do you do multiple inserts with npgsql (batch not serial) · Issue #2779 · npgsql/npgsql Hey there, I had a look around google for howto do something relatively simple like: INSERT INTO order_side (id) VALUES ('OTHER'),('MARKETSALE'),('MARKETBUY'),('LIMITBUY...
EF Core Tips: Don’t call Update when you don’t need to! I see all kinds of code while investigating issues and answering questions on GitHub. One thing that frequently crops up is calling DbContext.Update or DbSet.Update when it is not needed. Change tr…
Plan for Entity Framework Core 5.0 As described in the planning process, we have gathered input from stakeholders into a tentative plan for the EF Core 5.0 release.
Pushing a database driver to the max: Performance and architecture in the Npgsql PostgreSQL driver This talk will cover the latest architectural changes in the .NET PostgreSQL driver, Npgsql.
Introducing EF Core 5 Features: CreateDbCommand: I’ll see your string and raise you a command… My previous post showed using ToQueryString to get generated SQL. This will commonly be copy-pasted, but it could also be executed directly by the application. For example: This will work in simple…
Fixing Random, part 19 I’ve got no code for you this time; instead here are some musings about language design informed by our discussion so far. One of the most important questions to ask when designing a language…
T4 and EF Core Reverse Engineering I’m a huge fan of T4–the underutilized templating engine that ships as part of Visual Studio.
Document EF Core architecture and internal technical details · Issue #1920 · dotnet/EntityFramework.Docs To make it easier for contributors and provider authors to understand the code. Please comment on this issue with internal areas you would like to see documented. Working list of possible topics to...
Security Scanning Your .NET Core Applications No organization exists in an operational vacuum. It’s a natural law of software development that your world will collide with other projects. It is inevitable to share responsibility between customers, vendors, partners, and the open-source ecosystem. In ...
Entity Framework Weekly Status Updates (2020) · Issue #19549 · dotnet/efcore This issue contains status updates from the Entity Framework team to provide insight into what we are focused on, progress made, and other interesting highlights from the week. More Information Bro...
Transactions with MongoDB 4.0 and .Net Multi-Document Transactions and MongoDBTL;DR - MongoDB 4.0 supports multi-document transactions! When you have 2 mutations (write operations), each affecting 1 document, Mongo used to apply each writ
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MongoDB.local SF 2018 MongoDB is coming to SF! Join us for a full-day educational conference covering the fundamentals to advanced techniques of app design and performance management. You’ll hear from the team that builds the database and power users running MongoDB deployment...
Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database – What and Why Elastic Jobs are currently in public preview. The feature is ready and we are preparing to make it officially generally available. No whitelisting or extra steps are required to get started. Elastic Jobs is a feature of Azure SQL Database that lets yo...
Catch up with Visual Studio Tools for Unity on Mac | Visual Studio Blog Since the launch of Visual Studio for Mac, we have been continuously working on improving Visual Studio Tools for Unity (VSTU). Visual Studio for Mac has been the default IDE for Unity on Mac and it provides free world class support for Unity projects thr...
Email Confirmation with ASP.NET Core Identity - Code Maze In this article, we are going to learn how to enable email confirmation during the registration process with ASP.NET Core Identity
SQL Bits 2020 is happening in London: join us March 31 to April 4 - SQL Server Blog It’s that time of the year when the Microsoft Azure Data engineering team is getting ready to participate at SQL Bits 2020. Excitement for this year’s show is everywhere, as SQL Bits provides us with a unique opportunity to learn, connect, and share with ...
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Creating an OpenID Connect server proxy with OpenIddict 3.0's degraded mode In this post, discover how to create a minimalist OIDC server proxy between Steam and your own APIs.
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COPY | Npgsql Documentation PostgreSQL has a feature allowing efficient bulk import or export of data to and from a table. This is usually a much faster way of getting data in and out of a table than using INSERT and SELECT. See documentation for the COPY command for more details.
Getting the best out of Entity Framework Core - NDC London 2020 | Software Developers Conference Microsoft's Entity Framework Core (EF Core) library allows anyone who can write C# and LINQ to access a database - no need to write SQL. The problem is, are you getting the best out of EF Core?
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Make your SQLite bulk inserts very fast in C# .NET - Joe Kampschmidt's Code Learn how to increase performance with performing bulk SQLite inserts in C# .NET
Validating SSL Certificates With .NET ServicePointManager I’ve taken for granted how often I need to call a web API from my C# applications. If you’ve ever had to make a web request in your .NET application, then I’m sure you’ve seen the following frustrating exception message as many times as I have.
Model-View-Update (MVU) – How Does It Work? MVU (also known as The Elm Architecture) seems to be one of those things which are a mystery to most of us. Until all of a sudden, we understand it and never wanna miss it again. It's not all that complicated.
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.NET for Apache Spark Helps Makes Big Data Accessible | .NET Blog In this post, we explore how to use .NET for Apache Spark, which makes big data accessible to .NET developers, to perform log analysis.
Code Maze Weekly #11 - Code Maze Find out what’s been brewing this week in .NET ecosystem: .NET and C# EF Core Relationships in ASP .NET Core 3.1 [wakeupandcode.com] Shahed covers the different kinds of DB relationships and their representations in EF Core in ASP.NET Core 3.1 Inserting m...
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Different languages, similar encoding efficiency: Comparable information rates across the human communicative niche Language is universal, but it has few indisputably universal characteristics, with cross-linguistic variation being the norm. For example, languages differ greatly in the number of syllables they allow, resulting in large variation in the Shannon informat...
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PostgreSQL For Those Who Can’t Even, Part 1 Just yesterday I was talking to a friend about Postgres (not uncommon) and he said something that I found shocking: I can’t even with Postgres, I know JACK SQUAT This person calls themself my…
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This is relevant only for multimedia apps. I have fintech systems in production... | Hacker News Thank you for this post. I read "10 Users: Split out the Database Layer" and about had an aneurysm.I also work with fintech systems built upon .NET Core and have similar experiences regarding scaling of these solutions. You can get an incredible amount of...
EF Core Relationships in ASP .NET Core 3.1 This is the fifth of a new series of posts on ASP .NET Core 3.1 for 2020. In this series, we’ll cover 26 topics over a span of 26 weeks from January through June 2020, titled AS…
Entity Framework Core performance tuning – a worked example – The Reformed Programmer Last Updated: December 24, 2019 | Created: September 22, 2017
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Working with the new Microsoft.Data.SqlClient In this episode, Vicky Harp joins Jeremy to talk about the new Microsoft.Data.SqlClient. They discuss why this new package was created, feature scenarios it supports, and also show off some demos of h
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CarterCommunity/Carter Carter is framework that is a thin layer of extension methods and functionality over ASP.NET Core allowing code to be more explicit and most importantly more enjoyable. - CarterCommunity/Carter
Hack Yourself First: How to go on the Cyber-Offence - NDC London 2020 | Software Developers Conference Cyber-attacks have become a reality of running software on the web today. We find ourselves under a constant barrage of malicious activity from hacktivists, online criminals and increasingly, nation states. Successful attacks from these adversaries are pr...
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Shay Rojansky - How Entity Framework translates LINQ all the way to SQL - Dotnetos Conference 2019 Visit our website to learn more! https://conf.dotnetos.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dotnetos/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dotnetosorg Shay is a senior software engineering working in Microsoft's data access team, on Entity Framework Core, the...
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Hack Yourself First: How to go on the Cyber-Offence - NDC Security 2020 Cyber-attacks have become a reality of running software on the web today. We find ourselves under a constant barrage of malicious activity from hacktivists, online criminals and increasingly, nation states. Successful attacks from these adversaries are pr...
[Fixes #17014] Add an auth-enabled template for Blazor WASM projects … · dotnet/aspnetcore@e64b8a9 …(#18354) * [Fixes #17014] Add an auth-enabled template for Blazor WASM projects * The template enables auth using cookies. * Includes a UserController to return the user claims/data to the user...
An unsecured database exposed thousands of British passports An open Amazon Web Services S3 database held passport scans, tax documents, job applications and other sensitive personal details. It has now been taken offline by Amazon
Report: Adult Site Leaks Extremely Sensitive Data The vpnMentor cybersecurity research team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, have uncovered a leaking S3 Bucket with 19.95GB of visible data on a Virginia-based
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The Perils of Querying SQL Server Replicas Under Load Last week at Stack Overflow we had an internal hack-a-thon, or as we call it, a make-a-thon. I was on the bug-bashing team, which is the team that attempts to fix smallish bugs we haven’t gotten around to fixing, due to other time-constraints. I was tagge...
STEALTHbits Offers New Capabilities to Strengthen Enterprise Passwords and Harden Active Directory Security in StealthINTERCEPT 7.0 STEALTHbits Technologies has announced the release of StealthINTERCEPT 7.0 real-time Active Directory (AD) policy enforcement solution.
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Introducing EF Core 5 Features: Using ToQueryString to get generated SQL The EF team has been publishing weekly status updates since the middle of last year. Recently I have started including brief introductions for newly implemented enhancements. I’m going to exp…
Entity Framework Core: Getting Started This course helps those with experience in earlier versions of EF and EF Core, and developers completely new to Entity Framework. Learn how to build data models with EF Core 3.1, use EF Core to let your software interact with data in your databases and in...
Why is a 22GB database containing 56 million US folks' personal details sitting on the open internet using a Chinese IP address? Seriously, why? If CheckPeople could take a look at this, that would be great
Why you should choo-choo-choose to have a vulnerability disclosure policy (2M+ Accounts exposed) 2 Million reasons why your company needs a vulnerability dislcosure policy
SureBet247 shows how not to handle a data breach PR crisis - CalvinAyre.com Nigerian online sports betting operator SureBet247 gives a master class in how not to respond to news that you've suffered a customer data breach.
The Difficulty of Disclosure, Surebet247 and the Streisand Effect This is a blog post about disclosure, specifically the difficulty with doing it in a responsible fashion as the reporter whilst also ensuring the impacted organisation behaves responsibly themselves. It's not a discussion we should be having in 2020, a ti...
Crypto exchange Poloniex denies data leak after resetting passwords for some users Poloniex said Thursday that account information circulating on social media did not originate from the cryptocurrency exchange. On Monday, Poloniex contacted some of its users after a tweet circulated featuring a list of email addresses and passwords and ...
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NetLearner on ASP .NET Core 3.1 In This Article: What is it?RestrictionsArchitectureShared LibraryRunning the ApplicationWhat’s Next? NetLearner: What is it? NetLearner is an ASP .NET Core web app to allow any user to conso…
How to Perform CRUD Operations Using Blazor Preview 9 and Entity Framework Core 3.0 | Syncfusion Blogs Entity Framework Core Entity Framework (EF) Core is the latest version of Entity Framework from Microsoft. It is an open-source, lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. It runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Entity Framework ...
SQL-MisterMagoo/PreRenderComponent Provides an IsPreRendering CascadingValue to Razor Components projects. - SQL-MisterMagoo/PreRenderComponent
Wyze Essay 1 - Beijing Dragon Network Co Ltd. Wyze originated as a camera company in 2017, establishing headquarters in Seattle, Washington. Their website clearly states (under no uncertain terms), the company is to be close to Amazon and conduct business almost exclusively through them. Recently, Wy...
Designing Windows 95’s User Interface Three years ago I came across an interesting paper written up by a Microsoft employee, Kent Sullivan, on the process and findings of designing the new user interface for Windows 95. The web page ha…
Exposed databases are as bad as data breaches, and they're not going anywhere Hackers don't have to hack when companies make this mistake.
Shay Rojansky - How Entity Framework translates LINQ all the way to SQL - Dotnetos Conference 2019 Visit our website to learn more! https://conf.dotnetos.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dotnetos/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dotnetosorg Shay is a senior software engineering working in Microsoft's data access team, on Entity Framework Core, the...
A technique for building high-performance databases with EF Core – The Reformed Programmer Last Updated: January 1, 2020 | Created: December 22, 2019
Signal >> Blog >> Technology Preview for secure value recovery At Signal, we want to make privacy simple. From the beginning, we’ve designed Signal so that your information is in your hands rather than ours. Technologies like Signal Protocol secure your messages so that they are never visible by anyone but you and th...
Why would a table with a Clustered Columnstore Index have many open rowgroups? I was experiencing some performance issues with a query yesterday and upon further investigation, I noticed what I believe is odd behavior with a clustered columnstore index that I'm trying to get ...
Welcome to the 2019 Data Breach Hall of Shame We never want to hear the words "unsecured database" ever again.
ASP .NET Core code sharing between Blazor, MVC and Razor Pages In This Article: IntroductionWhy Share Code Across Projects/Assemblies?Creating a Shared LibraryUsing the Shared LibraryRunning the SamplesConclusionReferences Introduction It’s been a while …
Protect your Ring camera from hackers by setting up two-factor authentication A rash of takeovers of Ring cameras is a good reminder to lock down your security devices.
Hitting Parallel_Redo_Flow_Control waits with Availability Groups In late June 2019, June 26th to be exact, we experienced an outage on Stack Overflow for about 11 minutes. It’s not unusual that we had an outage. They happen. Not often, but they do still happen. This one, however, was a little different because it was c...
Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables (evanjones.ca) I think it is safe to state that hash tables (e.g. maps in Go, dicts in Python, HashMap in Java, etc.) are far more common than ordered data structures such as trees for in-memory data structures. One data point is that in a talk about C++ hash table opti...
Around 44 Million Microsoft Users Reused Passwords: Microsoft With unprotected databases and online services getting breached often, leaked passwords from data breaches pose a threat if users reusing their passwords.
Announcing 8.0 for .NET Core 3.1 If you've already create a new web project for .NET Core 3.0 or 3.1 you know that there are some differences between how these versions are configured in Startup.cs. This of course also applies to Piranha, so let's take a look at what you need to do to up...
Free Blazor Components | 40+ controls by Radzen The Radzen Blazor component library provides more than 30 UI controls for building rich ASP.NET Core web applications.
Data breach disclosure 101: How to succeed after you've failed Organisations don't plan to fail. Probably the closest we get to that in the security space is password hashing, which for all intents and purposes is an acknowledgement that one day, you may well lose them. But organisations rarely plan for how they shou...
The Difference Between IEnumerable and IQueryable Explained – The Sharper Dev This post is part of this year’s C# Advent Series. Which counts down to Christmas with two C# articles published every day from Dec 1 – Dec 25.
Why does an industry I've never heard of know so much about me? There are companies buying and selling your information behind the scenes, and you probably won't know until it's leaked.
EfCore.GenericEventRunner: an event-driven library that works with EF Core – The Reformed Programmer Last Updated: January 3, 2020 | Created: December 1, 2019
Using HTTP Request Routes, Request Body, and Query string parameters for Authorization in ASP.NET Core This post shows how HTTP route parameters, a HTTP request body or HTTP request query string parameters can be used for authorization in ASP.NET Core. Code: Authorization using ASP.NET Core Route pa…
Everything I know about Kubernetes I learned from a cluster of Raspberry Pis | Jeff Geerling I realized I haven't posted about my DrupalCon Seattle 2019 session titled Everything I know about Kubernetes I learned from a cluster of Raspberry Pis, so I thought I'd remedy that. First, here's a video of the recorded session:
Hack Yourself First: How to go on the Cyber-Offence - NDC Security 2020 Cyber-attacks have become a reality of running software on the web today. We find ourselves under a constant barrage of malicious activity from hacktivists, online criminals and increasingly, nation states. Successful attacks from these adversaries are pr...
dotnet/efcore EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations. - dotnet/efcore
Data Enrichment, People Data Labs and Another 622M Email Addresses Until this month, I'd never heard of People Data Labs (PDL). I'd certainly heard of the sector they operate in - "Data Enrichment" - but I'd never heard of the company itself. I've become more familiar with this sector over recent years due to the frequen...
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ASP.NET Blog | gRPC vs HTTP APIs ASP.NET Core now enables developers to build gRPC services. gRPC is an opinionated contract-first remote procedure call framework, with a focus on performance and developer productivity. gRPC integrates with ASP.NET Core 3.0, so you can use your existing ...
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GateHub Investigation - Final Statement Our Security Team has concluded an extensive forensic investigation into the recent cyber attack on GateHub.
.NET for Apache Spark™ | Big data analytics .NET for Apache Spark™ provides C# and F# language bindings for the Apache Spark distributed data analytics engine. Supported on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Improved Remote Validation in Razor Pages Remote Validation is a technique that uses client side script to validate user input on the server without posting the entire form. Remote validation has always been possible in Razor Pages using either the RemoteAttribute, which requir...
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OData/RESTier A turn-key library for building RESTful services. Contribute to OData/RESTier development by creating an account on GitHub.
TimeZoneNotFoundException in Alpine Based Docker Images - Steve Gordon In this post, we explore the cause of a TimeZoneNotFoundException in a .NET Core application, running on .NET Core 3.0 in an Alpine Linux Docker container
One-day hands-on Blazor Workshop 11/25 Write a complete server-side Blazor PWA app with EF Core, API controllers, components, SignalR, AspNetCore Identity, and JS Interop.
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The Most Secure Option “The auditors have finished examining our codebase.” That was how Randy’s boss started the meeting, and she delivered the line like a doctor who just got the tests back, and is trying to break the news gently.
dotnet/SqlClient Microsoft.Data.SqlClient provides database connectivity to SQL Server for .NET applications. - dotnet/SqlClient
Workshops I run security workshops that teach technology professionals how to break into their own applications – before someone else does
Massive White Supremacist Message Board Leak: How to Access and Interpret the Data - bellingcat Update: The Internet Archive has removed the SQL leak; however, the information is freely available via a torrent file (download here) or a Magnet link (click here, or copy/paste the link into a torrent client). Today, the entire SQL database from Iron Ma...
You don't need to be a rocket-scientist to contribute to .NET Core! Sometimes when I'm talking with other .NET developers, the "I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't provide X functionality" or "Why hasn't Microsoft fixed Y yet?" topic comes up. Guess what? You can fix all this yourself! Because .NET Core is open sou...
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Credential stuffing explained: How to prevent, detect and mitigate The automated use of breached usernames and passwords to access accounts is low risk, high reward for cybercriminals. Here's how to make it harder for them to use credential stuffing.
GOTO Academy At GOTO Academy you can expect to be taught at a high level by field experts. The GOTO Academy is the knowledge-sharing node of the Trifork group, an innovative software company that has been operating in Europe for more than 20 years, located in Denmark,...
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Episode 371: Howard Chu On the Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB) : Software Engineering Radio Howard Chu, CTO of Symas Corp and chief architect of the OpenLDAP project, discusses the key technical features of the Lightning Memory-mapped Database (LMDB) that make it one of the fastest, most efficient, and safest embedded data stores in the world. H...
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Verzekeraar Allianz informeert klanten over datalek - Security.NL Verzekeringsmaatschappij Allianz Global Assistance heeft klanten geïnformeerd over een datalek dat een maand geleden al in het ...
Open-sourcing Polynote: an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook Jeremy Smith, Jonathan Indig, Faisal Siddiqi
Cash-back Websites Expose 2 TB of Sensitive Information Bank details of over 3.5 million users laid bare in double data breach
Competitive Pest Services Data Breach: What Happened and How We Plan to Fix It - Competitive Pest Control Recently we discovered that some data from all of our clients was compromised. This discovery came about when customers contacted us to advise they were approached by a third party. We’d like to thank...
How to monitor your Docker containers with ctop Jack Wallen shows you how to install, and use ctop for quick and easy container monitoring on a Linux Docker server.
An Illustrated Guide to OAuth and OpenID Connect An illustrated guide to explain OAuth and OpenID Connect!
Slow in the Application, Fast in SSMS? An SQL text by Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP. Last revision: 2019-10-26. Copyright applies to this text. See here for font conventions used in this article. This article is also available in Russian, translated by Dima Piliugin.
Request Features And ASP.NET Core 3 With ASP.NET Core, developers have several new tools to build their web applications. One feature that I am incredibly excited about is request features.
Mssql extension for Visual Studio Code now has Object Explorer and IntelliCode - SQL Server Blog Today we’re introducing a new release for the mssql extension for Visual Studio Code which is now available! The mssql extension for Visual Studio Code is the official SQL Server extension that supports connections to SQL Server and rich editing experienc...
“BriansClub” Hack Rescues 26M Stolen Cards — Krebs on Security “BriansClub,” one of the largest underground stores for buying stolen credit card data, has itself been hacked. The data stolen from BriansClub encompasses more than 26 million credit and debit card records taken from hacked online and brick-and-mortar re...
Announcing the Open Application Model (OAM), an open standard for developing and operating applications on Kubernetes and other platforms - Open Source Blog Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud have created the Open Application Model (OAM) project under the Open Web Foundation.
The New War on Naturalized Citizens The Trump administration is seeking to denaturalize and deport longtime U.S. citizens, seizing on tiny mistakes in the process and putting the status of every naturalized citizen at potential risk.
EF Core 3.1 to target .NET Standard 2.0 · Issue #18141 · dotnet/efcore Update from 2.1.4 to 3.0.0 Could not install package 'Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore 3.0.0'. You are trying to install this package into a project that targets '.NETFramework,Version=v4....
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Health Checks with gRPC and ASP.NET Core 3.0 - Steve Gordon In this post we will add health checks to a gRPC server running on ASP.NET Core 3.0. We'll use middleware and implement the gRPC Health Check Protocol.
A detailed look at Ubuntu’s new experimental ZFS installer Let's take a sneak ZFS peek under the hood of Ubuntu Eoan Ermine's latest build.
Use the Azure Application Insights Profiler settings pane - Azure Monitor See Profiler status and start profiling sessions
SQL-MisterMagoo/Blazor.PWA.MSBuild An MSBuild package which adds simple PWA functionality to Blazor client-side Apps - SQL-MisterMagoo/Blazor.PWA.MSBuild
The GROUPing pitfall - ISoft Wiki The GROUPing pitfall is a very common logical error in SQL queries, especially among people getting familiar with a relational database.
String-based enums · Issue #2849 · dotnet/csharplang We've noticed a trend, especially in cloud services, that there is a need for extensible enums. While enums can in principle be extended by casting any int to the enum, it has the risk for conf...
v5.7 Release Notes Ordinarily we’d have a longer release cadence in between releases with more features, but with the recent release of .NET Core 3 we’ve cut this release cycle short so we can release a version of ServiceStack compatible with .NET Core 3+. Other than that t...
3.0 Release Notes | Npgsql Documentation Version 3.0.0 of the Npgsql Entity Framework Core provider has been released and is available on nuget. This version works with version 3.0.0 of Entity Framework Core, and bring new Npgsql features in addition to the general EF Core changes.
MiniProfiler/dotnet A simple but effective mini-profiler for ASP.NET (and Core) websites - MiniProfiler/dotnet
“UPSERT” Race Condition With MERGE I mentioned in Conditional INSERT/UPDATE Race Conditionthat most “UPSERT” code is defective and can lead to constraint violations and data integrity issues in a multi-user environment .In this post, I’ll show how to prevent duplicate key errors and data p...
dotnet-presentations/aspnetcore-app-workshop This workshop will teach you ASP.NET Core by building a complete conference management website from scratch. - dotnet-presentations/aspnetcore-app-workshop
Peddle the Pedal to the Metal Howard Chu gives tips and techniques for writing highly efficient and scalable software drawn from decades of experience. The guiding principle is a simple one, and can be applied nearly everywhere. The talk is focused on programming in C.
Scotiabank slammed for 'muppet-grade security' after internal source code and credentials spill onto open internet Blueprints for mobile apps, databases exposed in public GitHub repos
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praeclarum/sqlite-net Simple, powerful, cross-platform SQLite client and ORM for .NET - praeclarum/sqlite-net
Running async tasks on app startup in ASP.NET Core 3.0: Exploring ASP.NET Core 3.0 - Part 4 In this post I describe how a small change in the ASP.NET Core 3.0 WebHost makes it easier to run asynchronous tasks on app startup using IHostedService
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Durable Functions Overview - Azure Introduction to the Durable Functions extension for Azure Functions.
A high-speed network driver written in C, Rust, Go, C#, Java | Hacker News You can perfectly do in same in C# just like they did with Go.We do it all the time in Windows low level coding within .NET, the reason why they didn't beats me, most likely not knowledgeable enough of .NET capabilities.As for Java, hopefully with project...
September 10, 2019—KB4515384 (OS Build 18362.356) Learn more about update KB4515384, including improvements and fixes, any known issues, and how to get the update.
Online ticketing company investigating 'potential vulnerability' in its systems An online ticketing company has quickly moved to fix a potential vulnerability after a university student claimed the personal details of thousands of people had been revealed.
How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein New documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions to the lab far exceeding the amounts M.I.T. has publicly admitted.
Painless Password Hash Upgrades Background & Summary Existing websites and applications implementing an older password hashing algorithm like MD5 or SHA1 must be upgraded to a more secure algorithm. Both of these older algori…
[Updated: New Statement] Flight1 Security Breach | FSElite Update Sep 7th 2019 @ 09:05z: Flight1 has issued an email to users responding to the security breach we previously reported on. Here's their statement in full. == Important Information: Yesterday,
Goodbye XSS Auditor Chrome has retired the XSS Auditor because of problems with bypasses and security. This article describes how the Auditor worked, how it was bypassed and how it began. It examines the XSS Auditor’s weaknesses and the vulnerabilities it caused. Finally, it...
OWASP/CheatSheetSeries The OWASP Cheat Sheet Series was created to provide a concise collection of high value information on specific application security topics. - OWASP/CheatSheetSeries
Event Sourcing: Projections with Liquid Projections - CodeOpinion Projections are an important yet simple concept when working with event sourcing. Here's how to use Liquid Projections in .NET for creating Projections.
My RustConf 2018 Closing Keynote I promised two things when I did the closing keynote at RustConf 2018:
Hack Yourself First: How to go on the Cyber-Offence - NDC Sydney 2020 | Software Developers Conference Cyber-attacks have become a reality of running software on the web today. We find ourselves under a constant barrage of malicious activity from hacktivists, online criminals and increasingly, nation states. Successful attacks from these adversaries are pr...
Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 9 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 9 | .NET Blog The Preview 9 versions of the EF Core 3.0 package and the EF 6.3 package are now available for download from nuget.org. These are the last planned previews before we release the final versions later this month. We have almost completely stopped making cha...
SQL Server Retries with Dapper and Polly Retryable SQL Server exceptions, that lovely little library called Polly, and Dapper (or your favorite database access library)
Workflow syntax for GitHub Actions - GitHub Help A workflow is a configurable automated process made up of one or more jobs. You must create a YAML file to define your workflow configuration.
Initial Actions commit by NickCraver · Pull Request #171 · NickCraver/StackExchange.Exceptional Testing out an Actions CI build, first steps (doesn't do containers and testing yet)
The Plan to Use Fitbit Data to Stop Mass Shootings Is One of the Scariest Proposals Yet In the aftermath of yet another mass shooting in America, loved ones grieve, gun control advocates call for common-sense reforms, and politicians suggest new “solutions” that won’t do anything about guns. These proposals frequently focus on mental health,...
Support for OCI8 database extension for Oracle · Issue #431 · peachpiecompiler/peachpie Requesting support for OCI8 database extension, using ODP.NET as the underlying engine is perfectly acceptable.
Dynamic controller routing in ASP.NET Core 3.0 | StrathWeb. A free flowing web tech monologue. One of the great extensibility points in the routing feature of the older versions of the ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core MVC frameworks was the ability to pick up any route and dynamically point it at a given controller/action.
Tracking unmaintained crates · Issue #134 · RustSec/advisory-db I was recently complaining on how core ecosystem crates like term are unmaintained. Someone responded with an interesting idea: have RustSec track this information and expose it through cargo-audit...
Imperva Security Update | Imperva Hi everyone, Please find below a detailed update on the security incident from Kunal Anand, our Chief Technology Officer. From the moment we discovered this incident, we established and have held ourselves to the following key principles: To do the right...
Observability — A 3-Year Retrospective - The New Stack A summary of the observability movement over the past three years.
What We Did to Improve Security of Our Infrastructure (Updated) Everything you need to know about the security incident and what was done to make Hostinger and its users more secure.
Security Incident - Please Change Your Password Everyone, We've recently received reports of scammers emailing our members with bitcoin extortion attempts. We've identified that hackers were able to download email addresses and encrypted passwords from our database for a number of our users and use t...
Secure an ASP.NET Core web app with the Identity framework - Learn Add authentication and authorization to an ASP.NET Core web app using the Identity framework.
Creating a dynamic forms framework in .NET with Blazor - Oxford Computer Consultants One of the benefits of Blazor is that you can share C# objects between the server-side processing and the client-side processing. In this year’s Dev Camp we wanted to put this to the test with validation of dynamic forms.
Part 1: A better way to handle authorization in ASP.NET Core – The Reformed Programmer Last Updated: September 30, 2019 | Created: December 14, 2018
Entity Framework Core in Action An expertly written guide to EF Core—quite possibly the only reference you’ll ever need.
Script #Script is a simple, fast, highly versatile and embeddable scripting language for .NET Core and .NET Apps that utilizes a familiar JavaScript inspired expressive Syntax to enable dynamic scripting of .NET Apps via controlled access to pl...
How to Build Good Software Software has characteristics that make it hard to build with traditional management techniques; effective development requires a different, more exploratory and iterative approach.
Has my Gmail been hacked? How to check if your email has ever been hacked and when ARE you worried that your Gmail may have been hacked? Data breaches are becoming all too common these days, so here’s a handy guide to help you check up on your accounts to make sure you won&…
Found: World-readable database used to secure buildings around the globe 23-gigabyte database had plain-text passwords, face images, and much more.
Massive biometric security flaw exposed more than one million fingerprints Security company Suprema says it will let customers know if there's any risk involved.
Database Breach 21st July 2019 | Cracked.to Cracked.to is a cracking forum and community. We offer free premium accounts to everyone and we have a variation of cracked and leaked programs to choose from!
Hacker site’s incriminating database published online by rival group Fortnite cracks, software exploits among the topics discussed in almost 357,000 PMs.
Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 8 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 8 | .NET Blog The Preview 8 version of the EF Core 3.0 and EF 6.3 packages are now available in nuget.org. Learn about the latest improvements.
NimbleText Data Manipulation, Text Manipulation, Code Generation and Automation You can be more awesome at your job by keeping this tool always within reach.
.NET Analyzers An organization for the development of analyzers (diagnostics, code fixes, and refactorings) using the .NET Compiler Platform - .NET Analyzers
Build Data-Driven Web Apps Blazing Fast with Blazor and OData Build data-driven .NET applications with seamless client-server communication using fluent C# LINQ over OData (like GraphQL but without the JSON).
ImperialViolet - Username (and password) free login with security keys Most readers of this blog will be familiar with the traditional security key user experience: you register a token with a site then, when logging in, you enter a username and password as normal but are also required to press a security key in order for it...
Have I Been Pwned Alerts You to Data Breaches Even When the Websites Won’t In our interview with Troy Hunt, founder of Have I Been Pwned find out what to do when your personal information is compromised by a data
tidwall/buntdb BuntDB is an embeddable, in-memory key/value database for Go with custom indexing and geospatial support - tidwall/buntdb
The reasons behind why I don't use AutoMapper. My list of AutoMapper disadvantages which you should consider before using it in your project.
Add passwords to list of stuff CafePress made hash of storing, says infoseccer. 11m+ who used Facebook 'n' pals to sign in were lucky 11m other leaked users' p-words hashed with SHA-1
Nick Craver - Stack Overflow: How We Do App Caching - 2019 Edition This is #5 in a very long series of posts on Stack Overflow’s architecture.Previous post (#4): Stack Overflow: How We Do Monitoring - 2018 EditionSo…cachin...
We've, um, changed our password policy, says CafePress amid reports of 23m pwned accounts Three-quarters of email addys already in breach database
The Best Way To Secure Access - strongDM strongDM secures remote access to any db or server, on-prem or in the cloud. Make it easy for DevOps to enforce the controls InfoSec teams need.
Fast and flexible observability with canonical log lines Canonical log lines are a lightweight, flexible, and technology-agnostic technique for observability that are powerful and easy to implement.
Part 5: A better way to handle authorization – refreshing user’s claims – The Reformed Programmer Last Updated: August 22, 2019 | Created: July 29, 2019
Free Security Training Videos for CPE Credits | Varonis We've commissioned top experts in information security to bring you 100% free courses. Learn at your own pace, get certified, and earn CPE credits.
Emuparadise Suffered a 1.1 Million User Data Exposing Breach Emuparadise had suffered a big data breach last year, but no users got to know about it until now, as haveibeenpwned informed 1.1 million of them.
NDC Sydney 2019 NDC Sydney 2019 will be taking place at Hilton Sydney from 14-18 October. NDC Sydney is a five day event with 2 days of pre-conference workshops and 3 days of conference. The 5 paralell conference tracks will cover these topics: .NET - Agile - C++...
An Epic Course - Hack Yourself First — Enterprise IT & Industrial IT Managed Service Support Last week I went on a course and it was epic - probably the best technical course I’ve ever attended. It was entitled “Hack Yourself First”.
Alternatives to Microsoft.FeatureManagement: Adding feature flags to an ASP.NET Core app - Part 6 In this post I describe a few alternatives to the new Microsoft.FeatureManagement library for adding feature flags to your ASP.NET Core app
Configuring Role-based Authorization with client-side Blazor In this post, I show how you can implement role-based authorization in a client-side Blazor application using WebAPI and ASP.NET Core Identity.
How Stack Overflow upgraded from Windows Server 2012 - Stack Overflow Blog Warning: This post is long. While working through this massive server upgrade/migration process, tears were shed, many cuss words were uttered, along with a general feeling of frustration, which ultimately culminated into extreme happiness once the migrat...
Xiaomi Data Breach — "Exposing Xiaomi" Talk Pulled from Hacking Conference Data Breach — Millions of Xiaomi Mi Accounts Hacked by Taiwanese Researcher. Session Pulled from Ground Zero Summit Hacking Conference.
Fsyncgate: errors on fsync are unrecovarable This is an archive of the original "fsyncgate" email thread. This is posted here because I wanted to have a link that would fit on a slide for a talk on file safety with a mobile-friendly non-bloated format.
Files are fraught with peril This is a psuedo-transcript for a talk given at Deconstruct 2019. To make this accessible for people on slow connections as well as people using screen readers, the slides have been replaced by in-line text (the talk has ~120 slides; at an average of 20 k...
New information about Slack's 2015 security incident - Several People Are Typing An update on Slack’s 2015 security incident, and how we’re continuing to keep your account secure.
Ensuring customer success: Introducing the Azure Migration Program | Azure blog and updates | Microsoft Azure Last July, I shared our approach to helping customers migrate to Azure. Today, we are bringing together a best practice-based, holistic experience for migrating existing applications and systems to Azure.
What a very bad day at work taught me about building Stack Overflow’s community - Stack Overflow Blog Hi, my name is Sara Chipps, first time Stack blogger, long time Stacker (I’ve always wanted to say that!). I’m the new Director of Public Q&A at Stack Overflow. I’ve been at Stack for a year now, and I’d like to share with you one of my worst days at work...
How Stack Overflow upgraded from Windows Server 2012 Warning: This post is long. While working through this massive server upgrade/migration process, tears were shed, many cuss words were said, along with a general feeling of frustration, which ultimately culminated into extreme happiness once the migration...
Evite Invites Over 100 Million People to Their Data Breach The data breach monitoring service Haveibeenpwned.com has added a database dump of almost 101 million Evite users who had their information exposed when attackers gained unauthorized access to their servers.
Flow External Claims to the Main Identity How to flow or persist additional external claims from an external login/authentication provider such as Google.
Updating Browsers Quickly: Flags, Respins, and Components By this point, most browser enthusiasts know that Chrome has a rapid release cycle, releasing a new stable version of the browser approximately every six weeks. The Edge team intends to adopt that …
VB Casing behavior difference between VS 2013 and Roslyn · Issue #2909 · dotnet/roslyn [A customer reports in DevDiv 1172900] I have a solution that I can build in VS 2013 without any problem. However, when I try and build the same solution in VS 2015 it will not compile. I'm not...
Authentication with client-side Blazor using WebAPI and ASP.NET Core Identity In this post, I show how you can build a client-side Blazor app with authentication using WebAPI and ASP.NET Core Identity.
A Blazor Community Update This month has been one of the busiest months for Blazor and the show Blazor StateHasChanged. With preview 7 imminent it’s important to take a minute to refl...
.NET Core Summer event | Brno | Windows User Group - Czech Republic Zveme vás na večerní sérii 3 přednášek zaměřených na zákulisí vývoje .NET (Core) frameworku, které si pro vás připravil Karel Zikmund, který pracuje v Redmondu přímo ve vývojovém týmu a rád se podělí o zajímavosti, které provází vývoj .NETu. Přednášky bud...
Exploring Raygun's new application performance monitoring tool for .NET Core In this post I take a first look at Raygun APM, show how to configure the Raygun agent for profiling, and explore the Raygun APM web interface.
Appropriate Uses For SQLite SQLite is not directly comparable to client/server SQL database engines such as MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server since SQLite is trying to solve a different problem.
Elastic APM .NET agent beta released Use Elastic APM to send application performance data to Elasticsearch and visualize it in Kibana. The beta release of the APM .NET agent includes distributed tracing, transaction subset sampling, metrics, an expanded Public Agent API, and ASP.NET Core tra...
Report: Orvibo Smart Home Devices Leak Billions of User Records vpnMentor‘s research team found a leak in Orvibo’s user database. Our expert cybersecurity research team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar,
Introduction to Authentication with server-side Blazor In this post, I show how to create a new server-side Blazor application with authentication enabled. I then give a high level overview of the various services and components required for authentication.
Mistaeks I Hav Made: Mistakes we made adopting event sourcing (and how we recovered) Over the last year or so we have been building a new system that has an event-sourced architecture. Event-sourcing is a good fit for our needs because the organisation wants to preserve an accurate history of information managed by the system and analyse ...
Yes silver bullet Since Fred Brooks published his essay, I believe that we, contrary to his prediction, have witnessed several silver bullets.
Context is King: Finding Service Boundaries - CodeOpinion Defining the right service boundaries can be difficult. Follow along with this blog series as a practical guide on finding service boundaries.
BlazorHelp Website > Blog - Creating A Step-By-Step End-To-End Database Server-Side Blazor Application (updated to .Net Core 3.1) Microsoft Visual Studio Blazor
ErikEJ/EFCorePowerTools Entity Framework Core Power Tools - reverse engineering, migrations and model visualization for EF Core - ErikEJ/EFCorePowerTools
Manage and audit access to servers, databases and kubernetes. Manage and audit access to on-prem or cloud servers, databases and kubernetes. Recommended by security experts and operators like Troy Hunt.
wybiral/tube Personal video streaming server. Contribute to wybiral/tube development by creating an account on GitHub.
Yes, My Name is || - The Akamai Blog Boolean Operator Different cultures and nationalities have different naming conventions; I came from a one that led me to face the universe with a personal name
Ensuring consistent feature flags across requests: Adding feature flags to an ASP.NET Core app - Part 5 In this post I show how to ensure your feature flags remain consistent between requests by using IFeatureManagerSnapshot and implementing ISessionManager
What to do about the zero terminator of a string in a Span? · Issue #273 · ericsink/SQLitePCL.raw The use of Span has raised some interesting questions. In the SQLite API, when a parameter is a string, it is usually just a pointer, with the (documented) expectation that the string ends with a z...
Initial commit · OmniSharp/omnisharp-roslyn@a8f9786 - New omnisharp based on ASP.NET 5 and roslyn workspaces
Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) :: WTF - the terminal dashboard Indicates whether or not your listed email addresses appear in the Have I Been Pwned breach database.
Avoiding instruction cache misses Excessive instruction cache misses are the kind of a performance problem that's going to appear only in larger codebases. In this article, I'm describing some ideas on how to deal with this issue.
Building Messaging Endpoints in Azure - Evaluating the Landscape Posts in this series: Evaluating the Landscape A Generic Host Azure WebJobs Azure Container Instances Azure Functions When looking at moving traditional on-prem solutions to the cloud, I try as much as possible to avoid any kind of lift-and-shift strateg...
ASP.NET Blog | Forwarded Headers Middleware Updates in .NET Core 3.0 preview 6 With the ASP.NET Core 2.1 release, we included UseHsts and UseHttpRedirection by default. These methods put a site into an infinite loop if deployed to an Azure Linux App Service, Azure Linux virtual machine (VM), or behind any other reverse proxy besides...
Creating a custom feature filter: Adding feature flags to an ASP.NET Core app - Part 4 In this post I show how to create a custom IFeatureFilter that enables a feature based on the current user's claims.
Your current employer might just know about your job search An exposed database reveals personal information, like salary expectations, of 1.6 million job seekers.
wybiral/stream-sources Tool for real-time scraping of news articles. Contribute to wybiral/stream-sources development by creating an account on GitHub.
Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 6 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 6 | .NET Blog New previews of the next versions of EF Core and EF 6 are now available on NuGet.Org. What is new in EF Core 3.0 Preview 6 In recent months, a lot of our efforts have been focused on a new LINQ implementation for EF Core 3.0.
SQL-MisterMagoo/Mister-Magoo-Goes-Charting May be a collection of charts - probably just one though... - SQL-MisterMagoo/Mister-Magoo-Goes-Charting
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CQRS with MediatR (for Commands) and Odata (for Queries) This blogpost show-cases a simple and effective Command Query Responsibility Segregation implementation with MediatR and Odata in ASP.NET Core
Troy Hunt: ‘Messy’ Password Problem Afflicting Security Landscape Poor password hygiene continues to plague the security industry, Troy Hunt said during Infosecurity Europe.
SQL-MisterMagoo/BlazorTwins Twin shell Blazor template solution - builds VSIX with a 3 project Blazor template - SQL-MisterMagoo/BlazorTwins
damienbod/IdentityServer4AspNetCoreIdentityTemplate An ASP.NET Core 3.1 IdentityServer4 Identity Bootstrap 4 template with localization - damienbod/IdentityServer4AspNetCoreIdentityTemplate
jeanqasaur/dsl-syllabus-fall-2016 The syllabus from 15-819, the PhD seminar I taught on domain-specific programming languages fall 2016. - jeanqasaur/dsl-syllabus-fall-2016
How to Download the Stack Overflow Database - Brent Ozar Unlimited® I use a Microsoft SQL Server version of the public Stack Overflow data export for my blog posts and training classes because it’s way more interesting than a lot of sample data sets out there. It’s easy to learn, has just a few easy-to-understand tables, ...
SAML 2.4 Release Notes Rock Solid Knowledge is pleased to announce version 2.4 of the IdentityServer4 SAML component. This release includes new features for both SAML Service Providers and Identity Providers, based on user feedback and sponsored development.
wybiral/localtoast Scan localhost for various popular services. Contribute to wybiral/localtoast development by creating an account on GitHub.
Verifying Phone Number Ownership in ASP.NET Core Identity with Twilio Verify v2 and Razor Pages Learn to verify phone number ownership using ASP.NET Core Identity and Twilio Verify version 2.
Serializing a PascalCase Newtonsoft.Json JObject to camelCase In this post I describe one of the quirks of serializing a JSON.NET JObject, and show how to get camelCase names from a PascalCase JObject.
Mysterious Chinese Dating Apps Targeting US Customers Expose 42.5 Million Records Online - Security Discovery Researchers found a non password protected database that contained millions of dating app records. Read more about the Chinese dating app data leak.
Hexacorn | Blog Playing with Program database paths… Many executables include references (typically in a form of .pdb file name) to a program database path used by the software. This path typically points to some location on the software author’s system. I actually tried to cluster these paths in the past t...
AusCERT 2019: The Data Breach Pipeline What do you get when you combine hacking tools that are easy to access, a treasure trove of stolen user credentials, user authentication that's so complex it practically begs to be bypassed and companies that make connected devices with little understandi...
Accessing UNIX sockets remotely from .NET - Red Hat Developer In this article, we'll show how you can access Linux services remotely from .NET using SSH port forwarding.
Expose top-level nullability information from reflection · Issue #29723 · dotnet/runtime With C# 8, developers will be able to express whether a given reference type can be null: public void M(string? nullable, string notNull, IEnumerable<string?> nonNullCollectionOfPotentiallyNu...
NASA makes their entire media library publicly accessible and copyright free - DIY Photography No matter if you enjoy taking or just watching images of space, NASA has a treat for you. They have made their entire collection of images, sounds, and video available and publicly searchable online. It’s 140,000 photos and other resources available for y...
PHP on .NET Core 3.0 @ PeachPie | PHP compiler to .NET PeachPie allows you to run PHP applications on .NET Core - faster, stabler and more secure.
ASP.Net Core - Protect your API with API Keys I will show you how to protect your ASP.NET Core endpoints by using the concept of API keys. We will also learn the difference between Authentication and Authorization.
Hack Yourself First: How to go on the Cyber-Offence - NDC Oslo 2020 | Software Developers Conference Cyber-attacks have become a reality of running software on the web today. We find ourselves under a constant barrage of malicious activity from hacktivists, online criminals and increasingly, nation states. Successful attacks from these adversaries are pr...
How Hackers Get your Password? | Dr. Erdal Ozkaya Personal Blog It’s not a secret anymore, Hackers know our passwords. 551,509,767 real-world passwords previously exposed in data breaches. Are you one of those victims? Has your email been compromised or found in a data breach so far? How do hackers get your passwords...
Using scoped services inside a Quartz.NET hosted service with ASP.NET Core In this post I describe how to run Quartz.NET jobs using an ASP.NET Core hosted service, and how to handle scoped services inside singleton jobs.
Nick Craver - Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment - 2016 Edition This is #3 in a very long series of posts on Stack Overflow’s architecture.Previous post (#2): Stack Overflow: The Hardware - 2016 EditionWe’ve talked abou...
Nick Craver - Stack Overflow: The Architecture - 2016 Edition This is #1 in a very long series of posts on Stack Overflow’s architecture. Welcome.Previous post (#0): Stack Overflow: A Technical DeconstructionNext post...
Patterns for high-performance C# - Federico Andres Lois In this talk, we'll explore techniques and code patterns for creating a high-performance code, from analysis to actual optimization. We will explain how to recognize when optimizations are needed, where the bottlenecks typically are and the code patterns ...
Top .NET Tutorials for May 2019 Twilio's top .NET tutorial choices for May 2019 including articles on Blazor, authentication and resilient service-to-service communications.
First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records — Krebs on Security The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. The digitized reco...
Top-Level Code Prototype: Scenario E At last we’ve come to the last of my planned scenarios for this prototype–a little thing I like to think of as a WYSIWYG Web Service, or WYSIWYGWS for short. A few months back I had recently finish…
Refactor Symbol Cache by Krzysztof-Cieslak · Pull Request #384 · fsharp/FsAutoComplete It turns out that sending thousands of symbols serialized to JSON through HTTP is not the best idea I've ever had! I've started working on some performance analyses, and while I don't h...
Want to train a dragon? You'll need 500 million files, 730TB of data, 54,000 CPU cores... DreamWorks picks Gremlin to weave digital marvels
JED Server Security Incident Report Following a server level compromise of the Joomla! Extensions Directory (JED), we would like to provide our community a postmortem summary of the events leading to this issue, the response from the...
Spotlight on: Julia Silge, Stack Overflow - Mango Solutions Julia Silge is joining us as one of our keynote speakers at EARL London 2019. We can’t wait to hear...
GitHub Enterprise - The best way to build and ship software The power of GitHub's social coding for your own workgroup. Pricing, tour and more.
Streamlining Data Breach Disclosures: A Step-by-Step Process I don't know how many data breaches I'm sitting on that I'm yet to process. 100? 200? It's hard to tell because often I'm sent collections of multiple incidents in a single archive, often there's junk in there and often there's redundancy across those col...
Contact Info for Millions of Instagram Influencers, Celebrities, and Brand Accounts Leaked Online A database that contained contact information for millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities, and brand accounts was recently leaked online,...
Account Hijacking Forum OGusers Hacked — Krebs on Security Ogusers[.]com — a forum popular among people involved in hijacking online accounts and conducting SIM swapping attacks to seize control over victims’ phone numbers — has itself been hacked, exposing the email addresses, hashed passwords, IP addresses and ...
Hackathon to help Support The Canterbury Muslim Community Trust (CMCT). - Techweek19 This is a community hackathon event to help the Muslim Community and is in response to the mailout from Canterbury Tech asking for help.
Introducing Oak, a Free and Open Certificate Transparency Log - Let's Encrypt - Free SSL/TLS Certificates Update: Feb. 5 2020 The Let’s Encrypt CT logs are now included in approved log lists and are usable by all publicly-trusted certificate authorities. Today we are announcing a new Certificate Transparency log called Oak. The Oak log will be operated by Le...
Introducing the new Microsoft.Data.SqlClient | .NET Blog This post was written by Vicky Harp, Program Manager on SqlClient and SQL Server Tools. Those of you who have been following .NET development closely have very likely seen Scott Hunter’s latest blog post, .NET Core is the Future of .NET.
Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Windows 2003 — Krebs on Security Microsoft today is taking the unusual step of releasing security updates for unsupported but still widely-used Windows operating systems like XP and Windows 2003, citing the discovery of a “wormable” flaw that the company says could be used to fuel a fast...
Verifying phone number ownership with Twilio using ASP.NET Core Identity and Razor Pages In this post I show how to verify phone number ownership with Twilio's Verify API in a Razor Pages app that uses ASP.NET Core Identity for user management
edvmorango/event-driven-messenger Contribute to edvmorango/event-driven-messenger development by creating an account on GitHub.
Your most sensitive data is likely exposed online. These people try to find it Don’t worry. They want it to be safe.
Error Management: Future vs ZIO Modern applications are concurrent, parallel, asynchronous, and synchronous; they utilize many different subsystems, including network systems, actor systems, …
Error Management: Future vs ZIO Modern applications are concurrent, parallel, asynchronous, and synchronous; they utilize many different subsystems, including network systems, actor systems, …
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Bakedbean.org.uk - Building Stack Overflow Job Search - Parsing Queries Technical blog covering all things .NET and goings on at Stack Overflow
Bakedbean.org.uk - Building Stack Overflow Job Search Technical blog covering all things .NET and goings on at Stack Overflow
Monitor Blazor WASM loading and report errors Monitor Blazor WASM loading and report errors. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Announcing Entity Framework 6.3 Preview with .NET Core Support | .NET Blog The first preview of the EF 6.3 runtime is now available in NuGet. Note that the package is versioned as 6.3.0-preview5. We plan to continue releasing previews of EF 6.3 every month in alignment with the .NET Core 3.0 previews, until we ship the final ver...
Azure App Service update: Free Linux Tier, Python and Java support, and more Web applications continue to be at the center of business-critical applications for many Azure App Service customers, whether it’s helping migrate existing applications into the cloud or innovate by adding new functionality to delight end-users.
A Deep Dive into Query Execution Engine of Spark SQL (continues) - Databricks Watch Maryann Xue and Takuya Ueshin and Xingbo Jiang present A Deep Dive into Query Execution Engine of Spark SQL (continues) at 2019 Spark + AI Summit North America
A Deep Dive into Query Execution Engine of Spark SQL - Databricks Watch Maryann Xue and Takuya Ueshin and Xingbo Jiang present A Deep Dive into Query Execution Engine of Spark SQL at 2019 Spark + AI Summit North America
Cloudflare London Serverless Meetup Join us for two serverless talks in at Cloudflare's London office. Talk 1: Scaling Password Security with Serverless - The Caching Secrets of Pwned Passwords Pwned Passwords leads the way in allowing developers to prevent users from reusing previously br...
Use dependency injection in .NET Azure Functions Learn how to use dependency injection for registering and using services in .NET functions
Safely migrating passwords in ASP.NET Core Identity with a custom PasswordHasher In this post I create a custom IPasswordHasher implementation that can be used in ASP.NET Core Identity to migrate from weak hashes like MD5 or SHA1.
AMC accidentally exposed data on 1.6 million subscribers AMC exposed the names, emails and subscription details of its two premium video services.
Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 | .NET Blog Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5. It includes a new Json serializer, support for publishing single file executables, an update to runtime roll-forward, and changes in the BCL. If you missed it, check out the improvements we released in .NE...
Create a model ASP.NET MVC can build editor forms for your models based on their properties. You can customize how they work - both how they're displayed and how the the validation rules work - using data annotation attributes. They're simple markers on the prop...
Azure Monitor HTTP Data Collector API - Azure Monitor You can use the Azure Monitor HTTP Data Collector API to add POST JSON data to a Log Analytics workspace from any client that can call the REST API. This article describes how to use the API, and has examples of how to publish data by using different prog...
Unit Test or Integration Test and Why You Should Care - ardalis There remains a fair bit of confusion about what constitutes which kind of test. Many developers are fairly new to testing, and tend to call any tests of their code “unit tests” even when they’re dealing with something substantially larger than a unit. ...
Go modules services The Go team is providing the following services run by Google: a module mirror for accelerating Go module downloads, an index for discovering new modules, and a global go.sum database for authenticating module content.
Using Entity Framework Core to process Azure Service Messages in ASP.NET Core This article shows how to use Entity Framework Core together with an Azure Service Bus receiver in ASP.NET Core. This message handler is a singleton and so requires that an Entity Framework Core co…
BlazorHelp Website > Blog - Migrating Blazing Pizza (server side Blazor and client side Blazor) Microsoft Visual Studio Blazor
gpakosz/PPK_ASSERT PPK_ASSERT is a cross platform drop-in & self-contained C++ assertion library - gpakosz/PPK_ASSERT
Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 4 | .NET Blog Today, we are making the fourth preview of Entity Framework Core 3.0 available on NuGet, alongside .NET Core 3.0 Preview 4 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 Preview 4. We encourage you to install this preview to test the new functionality and assess the impact of the ...
Entity Framework Weekly Status Updates (2019) · Issue #15403 · dotnet/efcore Weekly status updates for 2020 can be found at: #19549 Expand to see additional information from the end of 2019... This discussion issue contains status updates from the Entity Framework team to p...
Evolution Software improves hazelnut quality with ML.NET | .NET Evolution Software uses ML.NET to predict moisture levels of hazelnuts during the commercial drying process and alerts operators when they reach the ideal level.
Peddle the Pedal to the Metal Howard Chu gives tips and techniques for writing highly efficient and scalable software drawn from decades of experience. The guiding principle is a simple one, and can be applied nearly everywhere. The talk is focused on programming in C.
ericsink/wasm2cil A "compiler" that can take a WebAssembly/WASI module and convert it to a .NET assembly - ericsink/wasm2cil
Strongly-typed IDs in EF Core: Using strongly-typed entity IDs to avoid primitive obsession - Part 4 In this post I describe how to use strongly-typed IDs with EF Core by using value converters and a custom ValueConverterSelector, which actually works!
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Production Tips for ASP .NET Core Web Apps This is the sixteenth of a series of posts on ASP .NET Core in 2019. In this series, we’ll cover 26 topics over a span of 26 weeks from January through June 2019, titled A-Z of ASP .NET Core! A – …
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The 5 Stages of Data Breach Grief When you see something play out enough times, you start to notice patterns. I was reflecting on this today as I watched The AA rapidly digging themselves in deeper and deeper after publishing 13GB worth of customer data to the internet, including partial ...
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Using strongly-typed entity IDs to avoid primitive obsession (Part 3) In this post I discuss using strongly-typed IDs with EF Core by using value converters. Unfortunately this has some issues I only partially fix in this post
The ReaderT Design Pattern Haskell isn't usually a language known for C++-style design patterns. Here's one counter-example, showing how to structure your applications.
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Understanding the Limitations of HTTPS A colleague recently forwarded me an article about the hazards of browsing on public WiFi with the question: “Doesn’t HTTPS fix this?” And the answer is, “Yes, generally.…
How to Track Your Kids (and Other People's Kids) With the TicTocTrack Watch Do you ever hear those stories from your parents along the lines of "when I was young..." and then there's a tale of how risky life was back then compared to today. You know, stuff like having to walk themselves to school without adult supervision, crazy ...
Planned maintenance scheduled April 23, 2019 at 23:30 UTC (7:30 pm US/Eastern) Update 2019-04-23: The maintenance went as planned. Current status We have hit some unexpected issues and have rescheduled - title and dates below are updated. The work listed below for Monday/
We have discovered and addressed a security breach. (Updated 2019-04-12) | Matrix.org TL;DR: An attacker gained access to the servers hosting Matrix.org. The intruder had access to the production databases, potentially giving them access to unencrypted message data, password hashes and access tokens. As a precaution, if you're a matrix.org...
Troy Hunt on Changing Password Behaviors Have I Been Pwned's Troy Hunt discusses how to handle breached authentication data and credentials, credential stuffing, and biometrics.
Upgrading to MySQL 8.0 : Default Authentication Plugin Considerations If you are upgrading your server to MySQL 8.0 and observe that your application is experiencing error related caching_sha2_password plugin, it is likely because your clients/connectors does not (ye…
Using strongly-typed entity IDs to avoid primitive obsession (Part 1) In this post I show a common case where primitive GUIDs are used for entity IDs, the issues it can cause, and a possible solution using strongly-typed IDs.
Using ASP.NET Core Identity users in integration tests Using regular ASP.NET Core Identity user accounts in ASP.NET Core integration tests. Keeping link with user accounts in database.
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Add tab for PackageReference by khellang · Pull Request #5656 · NuGet/NuGetGallery Just a suggestion 😉 This will allow you to easily copy PackageReference tags directly from the gallery and paste them into the project file 😄 Closes #5670
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A balancing act It would be so nice to have a set of exact rules on how to design software. With Functional Programming we can get the impression that…
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Website enumeration insanity: how our personal data is leaked I've just wrapped up a couple of Hack Yourself First workshops down closer to home in Australia and true to usual form, attendees found some absolute zinger security implementations. Previous workshops have found various vulnerabilities ranging from reale...
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Announcing the Microsoft Graph Security Hackathon winners - Microsoft Security We asked Microsoft Graph Security Hackathon participants to come up with innovative solutions using the Microsoft Graph Security API, and they did not disappoint.
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[Epic] Kerberos Authentication in ASP.NET Core · Issue #8897 · dotnet/aspnetcore We want to support Kerberos Authentication in ASP.NET Core. For 3.0, we are targetting the following supported environments as a minimum viable product (MVP): ASP.NET Core Server Platform: Linux (i...
Compare gRPC services with HTTP APIs Learn how gRPC compares with HTTP APIs and what it's recommend scenarios are.
Storing UTC is not a silver bullet Note: this is a pretty long post. If you’re not interested in the details, the conclusion at the bottom is intended to be read in a standalone fashion. There’s also a related blog post …
Getting started with Lithnet Password Protection - Part 1 - Blocking compromised passwords with the 'Have I Been Pwned?' password list In this guide, we will look at how to set up Lithnet Password Protection for Active Directory (LPP) from scratch. We'll configure a basic...
Names and default names for keys, constraints and indices · Issue #12837 · dotnet/efcore While working on #12821, I noticed some that may merit some discussion. When scaffolding, RelationalScaffoldingModelFactory checks the database name for keys, constraints and indices, comparing the...
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Facebook Stored Passwords in Plain Text For Years The social media giant said that it is notifying users whose passwords it stored in plain text, which made them accessible for Facebook employees to view.
Testing Incrementally with ZIO Environment by John De Goes - Signify Technology Do you want to achieve testability? You can achieve it using environmental effects! In this article by John De Goes you'll see that environmental effects can provide easier testability without sacrificing teachability, abstraction, or type inference. ...
Gargantuan Gnosticplayers breach swells to 863 million records Another 26m records stolen from another six online companies brings this hacker’s total number of records to 863m from 38 websites.
For contributors: unifying to fewer GitHub repos · Issue #320 · aspnet/Announcements Please use this issue for discussion. Over the next few months, we will reduce the number of repos in active development in the @aspnet organization by merging them together. We plan to condense ab...
Uncaught TypeError: i.Started.toUTCString is not a function · Issue #370 · MiniProfiler/dotnet I was looking to integrate MiniProfiler to an ASP.net Core 2.2 MVC app and have come across a rendering issue. This issue only affects rendering of the MiniProfiler widget and seems to be related t...
Conventions used by Containers on Azure App Service • Jamie Phillips Conventions used by Containers on Azure App Service If you have been planning to use containers on Azure App Service, there are some conventions used that helps you get up and running. I have found that they are not all consolidated in one place and there...
Here's What It's Like to Accidentally Expose the Data of 230M People The owner of Exactis, a 10-person firm that exposed a database including nearly every American, tells the story of his company's downfall.
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Beautiful, Simple, Testable Functional Effects for Scala by John De Goes - Signify Technology Want to know more about the dark side of Tagless-Final? In this article John De Goes advises that it may not be the best option for Scala however he has an alternative, check it out! What are your thoughts? 'See my accompanying talk, The Death of Fina...
Hangfire – Background jobs and workers for .NET and .NET Core An easy way to perform background processing in .NET and .NET Core applications. No Windows Service or separate process required.
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How random can you be? Suppose I asked you to generate a random sequence of ones and zeroes. Every time you add another 1 or 0 to the sequence, I am going to predict your next choice. Do you think you can make your sequence random enough that I fail to guess more than ~50% corr...
Real-time serverless applications with the SignalR Service bindings in Azure Functions Since our public preview announcement at Microsoft Ignite 2018, every month thousands of developers worldwide have leveraged the Azure SignalR Service bindings for Azure Functions to add real-time capabilities to their serverless applications.
Testing Incrementally with ZIO Environment Environmental effects let you easily, quickly, and incrementally build tesable services.
A Simple and Fast Object Mapper .NET Boxed mapper is an object to object mapper that is simpler and faster than Automapper and makes zero allocations of memory, thus making the garbage collector do less work.
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Final Tagless seen alive If you follow the Scala community, you’ve probably heard about John de Goes’s talk “Death of Final Tagless”. If you haven’t, no worries —…
Final Tagless seen alive If you follow the Scala community, you’ve probably heard about John de Goes’s talk “Death of Final Tagless”. If you haven’t, no worries —…
Final Tagless seen alive If you follow the Scala community, you’ve probably heard about John de Goes’s talk “Death of Final Tagless”. If you haven’t, no worries —…
Added Range Manipulation APIs to Collection<T> and ObservableCollection<T> by ahoefling · Pull Request #35772 · dotnet/corefx Added Range Manipulation APIs to Collection<T> and ObservableCollection<T>. Fixes: #10752 Added the following new API that was approved: // Adds a range to the end of the collection...
PostgreSQL Tools for the Visually Inclined I started my career on the Microsoft stack building forms and websites using drag and drop tools. Over time that became a punchline, which is unfortunate because honestly, the productivity was insa…
The Death of Final Tagless Final tagless. The topic strikes fear into the hearts of Scala developers everywhere—and not without reason. Final tagless allows developers to build composabl…
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First experiments using EF Core with Azure Cosmos DB Entity Framework Core (EF Core) was designed to not being a framework for only relational databases. It just takes some time to get the first non-relational providers. Now is the time. Microsoft no…
Desert Code Camp - 2018 - DevOps/System Administration - Hattan Shobokshi - Accidentally DevOps : Continuous Integration for the .NET Developer Date for Desert Code Camp - 2018 Saturday, October 6, 2018 8:00:00 AM - Saturday, October 6, 2018 6:00:00 PM
WEB Live Webinar - 4 Tips to Secure Active Directory Online security can be a world of uncertainty: we’re facing a new wave of sophisticated threats, while still dealing with the same fundamental threats from decades ago (SQL injection, ransomware from the 80’s). Join Troy Hunt, creator of “Have I been pwne...
Blockchains don’t scale. Not today, at least. But there’s hope. The first Bitcoin paper was first released in 2008. My excitement about the potential of blockchain technology has been building ever since.
Database File Format This document describes and defines the on-disk database file format used by all releases of SQLite since version 3.0.0 (2004-06-18).
July 4, 1976 — Rome.ro What dark secret hides within this strange house? As you visit each location, and touch objects you see, you learn about this family from the viewpoint of the child. If you are a fan of disturbing games this one will unsettle you as you explore every nook...
microsoft/microsoft-pdb Information from Microsoft about the PDB format. We'll try to keep this up to date. Just trying to help the CLANG/LLVM community get onto Windows. - microsoft/microsoft-pdb
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Beautiful, Simple, Testable Functional Effects for Scala Tagless-final has given us testable functional effects, but at great cost. Now ZIO provides an easier way.
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The Worst Board Games Ever Invented Last week, I dove into the data and design of Twilight Struggle — the best board game on the planet, according to the popular gaming site BoardGameGeek. I spok…
On the Security of Password Managers - Schneier on Security There's new research on the security of password managers, specifically 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass, and Lastpass. This work specifically looks at password leakage on the host computer. That is, does the password manager accidentally leave plaintext copi...
Security Flaws in Children's Smart Watches - Schneier on Security A year ago, the Norwegian Consumer Council published an excellent security analysis of children's GPS-connected smart watches. The security was terrible. Not only could parents track the children, anyone else could also track the children.
Evaluating the GCHQ Exceptional Access Proposal - Schneier on Security The so-called Crypto Wars have been going on for 25 years now. Basically, the FBI -- and some of their peer agencies in the UK, Australia, and elsewhere -- argue that the pervasive use of civilian encryption is hampering their ability to solve crimes and ...
Using Machine Learning to Create Fake Fingerprints - Schneier on Security Researchers are able to create fake fingerprints that result in a 20% false-positive rate.
Lambda Days 2018 - Heather Miller - We're Building On Hollowed Foundations (...) Register to Lambda Days newsletter to receive updates: http://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2018/#contact Heather Miller Heather is a co-founder of and the Executive Director of the Scala Center at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. She is also an Assistant ...
ANTS 2018 rump session The ANTS 2018 rump session took place Thursday 19 July 2018. Daniel J. Bernstein and Tanja Lange served as chairs.
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Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway I don't mind letting your programs see my private data as long as I get something useful in exchange. But that's not what happens. A forme...
Database Encryption A paper on (attacking) database encryption was just released by Paul Grubbs, Marie-Sarah Lacharite, Brice Minaud, and Kenneth G. Paterson. Matthew Green just posted an article about it. I don't know much about database encryption, but from my experience t...
Attack of the week: searchable encryption and the ever-expanding leakage function A few days ago I had the pleasure of hosting Kenny Paterson, who braved snow and historic cold (by Baltimore standards) to come talk to us about encrypted databases. Kenny’s newest result is …
The Secret History of Mac Gaming The untold story of a creative, innovative, fiercely-independent gaming scene that was serially ignored by the outside world
The Internet is Facing a Catastrophe For Free Expression and Competition: You Could Tip The Balance Update: Monday 14th 2019: We've added contact details and an action for Belgium.Update: Tuesday 15th 2019: We've added contact details and an action for Czechia.Sweden: Take Action Here.Germany: Take Action Here. Luxembourg: Take Action Here.Poland: Take ...
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The Web We Lost Update: A few months after this piece was published, I was invited by Harvard’s Berkman Center to speak about this topic in more detail. Though the final talk is an hour long, it offers much more insight into the topic, and I hope you’ll give it a look.
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Service Fabric Customer Architecture: ZEISS Group The AzureCAT blog has moved! Find this blog post over on our new blog at the Microsoft Tech Community: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/AzureCAT/Service-Fabric-Customer-Architecture-Zeiss-Group/ba-p/333958
Development workflow for Docker apps Understand the details of the workflow for developing Docker-based applications. Begin step by step and get into some details to optimize Dockerfiles and end with the simplified workflow available when using Visual Studio.
New System.Data.Common batching API · Issue #28633 · dotnet/runtime This proposal has been approved in principle, subject to confirmation by several database providers that the API shape is good. Issues tracking provider implementations: SqlClient: dotnet/SqlClient...
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.NET Blog Entity Framework Core 2.2 Preview 3 Now Available! Entity Framework Core 2.2 Preview 3 available with a new preview of our data provider for Cosmos DB and updated spatial extensions for various providers.
ASP.NET Blog | ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview3 now available Today we’re very happy to announce that the third preview of the next minor release of ASP.NET Core and .NET Core is now available for you to try out. We’ve been working hard on this release, along with many folks from the community,
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MVC is too complex to be usable? · Issue #7039 · dotnet/aspnetcore Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I am evaluating MVC. The problem appears to be that MVC is convoluted rocket science but I must be missing something. Please explain w...
EF Core Relationships in ASP .NET Core This is the fifth of a new series of posts on ASP .NET Core for 2019. In this series, we’ll cover 26 topics over a span of 26 weeks from January through June 2019, titled A-Z of ASP .NET Core! A &…
Handling Entity Framework Core database migrations in production – Part 2 – The Reformed Programmer Last Updated: January 31, 2020 | Created: January 30, 2019
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Integration testing data access in ASP.NET Core In the last post, I wrote about unit testing data access in ASP.NET Core. This time I'm going to go into integration tests. This post shows you how to write an end-to-end test using a WebApplicationFactory and hot to write specific integration test.
Feedback on async task examples and another possible solution: Running async tasks on app startup in ASP.NET Core - Part 3 In this post I discuss some feedback on my previous posts about running async tasks on startup, including why database migrations were a poor example
ASP.NET Core Razor Pages and HTTP Status Control Flow I, Khalid Abuhakmeh, recently wrote about my Razor Pages first impressions and am mostly positive about the addition to the ASP.NET Core technology stack. Bill Boga and I are currently rewriting a site that can benefit from the technology but thought it m...
Building C# Project-based Azure Functions in Visual Studio Code | The Data Farm I’ve been using the Azure Functions for Visual Studio Code for some time now and they continue to evolve in great ways. The latest shift threw me for a loop so I thought I would document some of it for those who may not have started yet. I should also sta...
Two approaches for running async tasks: Running async tasks on app startup in ASP.NET Core - Part 2 In this post I show two approaches for running tasks asynchronously on app startup. Both approach allow registering tasks using DI, but have different trade
Unit testing data access in ASP.NET Core Recently I got asked to explain how to unit test a controller that retrieves data using an entity Framework Core DbContext. In this post I'm going to show you how to use GenFu, Moq and XUnit to create small and isolated unit tests for your ASP.NET Core ap...
Built in options for running async tasks: Running async tasks on app startup in ASP.NET Core - Part 1 In this post I look at the problem of running one-off tasks asynchronously on app startup in ASP.NET Core. I explore the options and discuss pros and cons
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The Self Healing Myth: Readiness & Liveness Probes When starting out with Kubernetes, we had some discussions around what to do with “liveness” and “readiness” probes. What are Readiness & Liveness Probes? Liveness Probe…
Software Tokens Won't Save You A look at the advantages and disadvantages of using software tokens as an authentication factor, focussing on TOTP.
Built in options for running async tasks: Running async tasks on app startup in ASP.NET Core - Part 1 In this post I look at the problem of running one-off tasks asynchronously on app startup in ASP.NET Core. I explore the options and discuss pros and cons
Containing Null with C# 8 Nullable References C# 8’s nullable reference types are designed to help rid your apps of the dreaded NullReferenceException. This article walks you through the common errors that you will encounter while updating your app and offers a few of my opinions on how to fix them. ...
Learning about .NET Core futures by poking around at David Fowler's GitHub - Scott Hanselman David Fowler is the ASP.NET Core Architect (and an amazing highly technical public speaker) and I've learned a lot from ...
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