Posts by Laura Rodriguez

Building an API service can be complex and time-intensive, but a few well-positioned API services and open source libraries can reduce developer frustration and accelerate your time-to-market. In this post, you’ll create a complete API service plus a site to consume it and then drop in a few clever additions to smooth your way. When …

Heads up… this article is old! For an updated version of this article, see Policy-Based Authorization in ASP.NET Core on the Okta developer blog. The authorization model in ASP.NET Core got a big overhaul with the introduction of policy-based authorization. Authorization now uses requirements and handlers, which are decoupled from your controllers and loosely coupled …

Nowadays, RESTful APIs are the standard way of exposing backends to applications. They allow you to share your business logic between different clients with a low level of coupling through a super-standardized protocol: HTTP. One of the biggest challenges when building REST API is authentication. Typically, we manage this with JWTs. Unfortunately, ASP.NET Core doesn’t …

Storing sensitive configuration data (i.e. API keys, database usernames, and passwords) appropriately is anything but a trivial concern for application developers. There are a variety of recommended approaches in ASP.NET Core, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. Making the right decision based on your application’s security requirements is critical, but not always simple. In …

If you’re a .NET developer who’s ready to dive into mobile world, Xamarin is the tool for you! Xamarin is an open source framework that allows developers to create mobile applications for Android, iOS and Windows Phone written in a single language: C#. This is great because you don’t have to spend time learning native …

Creating a “freemium” or paid access website is easier than ever with Stripe and Stormpath to manage the workflow of your paid membership content. As the owner of a subscription site, you need to concentrate creating content rather than all the plumbing that goes along with getting paid for that content. In this tutorial, we …

The use of TLS (HTTPS) to encrypt communication between the browser and the server has become an accepted best practice in the software industry. In the past, it was difficult and expensive to maintain the certificates necessary to enable HTTPS on your web application. No longer! Let’s Encrypt issues free certificates for any website through …

CLIs, or Command Line Interfaces, are extremely powerful when it comes to accessing the basic functions of your computer. In fact, there are some things you can only do from the command line, even on Windows. Beyond that, many programs just work better on the command line. Take Git, the most widely used modern version …

As part of Microsoft’s effort to modernize and make the .NET framework multi-platform, modular and open-source, a new lightweight and extensible version of Entity Framework, Entity Framework Core 1.0, has been released. Nate recently shared a post on how he used Entity Framework Core to rapidly prototype and test ASP.NET Core applications. So, we thought …