In this episode, Monster Dave builds a new tag helper that makes it easy to control access to any block HTML in a Razor view. Join us for a tour of the Authorize tag helper

Related Links:
Tag Helper Samples Reop - https://github.com/dpaquette/TagHelperSamples
GitHub Issue for MVC Core  - https://github.com/aspnet/Mvc/issues/3785
Blog Post Deep Dive - https://www.davepaquette.com/archive/2017/11/05/authorize-tag-helper.aspx

 

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The new live unit testing capabilities of Visual Studio 2017 are a real timesaver. In this video, we take a poke around at them.

In ASP.NET Core, it's easy to control access to Controllers and Action Methods using the Authorize attribute. This attribute provides a simple way to ensure only authorized users are able to access certain parts of your application. While the Authorize attribute makes it easy to control authorization for an entire page, the mechanism for controlling access to a section of a page is a little clumsy. In this blog post, we build a Tag Helper that makes it incredibly easy to control access to any block HTML in a Razor view.

Entity Framework Core 2 was released recently. In today's episode we explore a new feature called DbContext Pooling. See how enabling DbContext Pooling might magically make your ASP.NET Core application faster!

Related Links:
GitHub Repo - https://github.com/AspNetMonsters/EP109-EFDbContextPooling
Netling Load Testing Tool - https://github.com/hallatore/Netling
.NET Conf Video - What's new in EF Core 2.0 - https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/dotnetConf/2017/T221

                 (Section on DbContext Pooling starts at 10:55s)

 

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Entity Framework Core 2 was released recently. In today's episode we explore a new feature that allows us to specify the SQL Server LIKE operator when querying for entities.

Related Links:
GitHub Repo - https://github.com/AspNetMonsters/EP108-EFLikeOperator

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In this episode we take a look at how to retrieve secrets from Azure Key Vault for use in your ASP.NET Core application

Entity Framework Core 2 was released recently. In today's episode we explore a new feature called Global Query Filters. See how query filters can be applied globally to easily support features such as soft delete and even multi-tenancy.

Episode Sponsor:
AppVeyor - Continuous Delivery Services for Windows Developers

Related Links:
Code from the show on GiHub

 

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Entity Framework Core 2 was released recently. In today's episode we explore a new feature which automatically paramaterizes SQL Queries when the FromSql method is used with an interpolated string. Monster Dave shows us exactly why parametrized queries are so important when querying using raw sql.

Episode Sponsor:
AppVeyor - Continuous Delivery Services for Windows Developers

 

Related Links:
EF Core Injection Samples by Nick Craver
FormattableString - MSDN

 

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Did you know that you can deploy multiple applications to a single Web App in Azure App Service? In today's episode, Dave explores this virtually unknown feature of Virtual Applications in Azure App Service. Learn how to create a virtual application and how to deploy your ASP.NET Core application to that virtual application. 

Episode Sponsor:
AppVeyor - Continuous Delivery Services for Windows Developers

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Setting assembly and product version numbers as part of your build process is easier now in .NET Core. In this episode, Dave shows us how to specify version numbers for .NET core assemblies and NuGet packages using command line parameters and how easily that can be integrated into build systems like AppVeyor.

Episode Sponsor:
AppVeyor - Continuous Deliver Services for Windows Developers

 

Previous Episodes:
Hosted ASP.NET Core Builds with AppVeyor
Continuous Deployment with AppVeyor
Deploying a NuGet package with AppVeyor

Related Content:
AppVeyor Docs - Environment Variables

 

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