One of my favorite features of (the now General Available) Azure Static Web Apps (SWA) is that in the Standard Tier you can now provide a custom OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider. This gives you a lot more control over who can and can’t access your app. In this post, I want to look at how we can use Auth0 and an OIDC provider for Static Web Apps. For this, you’ll need an Auth0 account, so if you don’t already have one go sign up and maybe have a read of their docs, just so you’re across everything ..read more

Server performance problems can happen for many different reasons. Memory issues, slow database requests, and too few machines are just some of them. I witnessed my fair share of problems and learned a few tricks along the way. In this article, I’ll tell you about 10 types of issues that can cause performance problems in your server. That’s not to say I categorized all possible problem types, but these might give you some ideas and nudge you in the right direction next time you’re digging into perf matters ..read more

In this episode, Abel and Damian talk about why DevOps is important for on prem applications. They'll walk through creating a CI/CD pipeline for our VM-based application and database using Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions ..read more

How do you tell your API Consumers explicitly if there are errors or problems with their request? Everyone creating HTTP APIs seems to implement error responses differently. Wouldn’t it be great if HTTP API Errors had a standard? Well, there is! It’s called Problem Details (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7807 ..read more

After many months of invigorating the Windows Community Toolkit with a multitude of improvements and features; we are happy to announce version 7.0 is available today! Made possible again with the support and contributions of our developer community ..read more

With .NET 6 Preview 3 we are shipping the latest progress for mobile and desktop development with .NET Multi-platform App UI. This release adds the Windows platform with WinUI 3, improves the base application and startup builder, adds native lifecycle events, and continues to add more UI controls and layout capabilities. We are also introducing new semantic properties for accessibility. As we explore each of these in a bit more detail, we invite you to dotnet new along with us and share your feedback ..read more

Today, users are demanding responsiveness, the latest and greatest features, and zero downtime from their applications. Businesses are rapidly adopting the cloud’s power to meet user demand, increase scalability and availability of applications. However, to fully embrace the cloud and optimize cost savings, applications need to be designed with the cloud in mind. This means not just changing the way applications are built, but also changing development practices in the organization to adopt this cloud-native architectural style ..read more

This article shows how to create and issue verifiable credentials using MATTR and an ASP.NET Core. The ASP.NET Core application allows an admin user to create an OIDC credential issuer using the MATTR service. The credentials are displayed in an ASP.NET Core Razor Page web UI as a QR code for the users of the application. The user can use a digital wallet form MATTR to scan the QR code, authenticate against an Auth0 identity provider configured for this flow and use the claims from the id token to add the verified credential to the digital wallet. In a follow up post, a second application will ..read more

In this article, I am going to show you how to implement Azure AD Authentication in ASP.NET Core 5.0 Web application. I will create ASP.NET Core 5.0 project and show you step by step how to use it for authentication and authorization against Azure AD Authentication ..read more

A comparison of the number of iterations in .NET 5 and .NET Framework ..read more