Angular Modules

Angular libraries are NgModules, such as FormsModule, HttpClientModule, and RouterModule. Many third-party libraries are available as NgModules such as Material Design, Ionic, and AngularFire2. NgModules consolidate components, directives, and pipes into cohesive blocks of functionality, each focused on a feature area, application business domain, workflow, or common collection of utilities. declarations:...

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Hoisting in JavaScript

Due to it's somewhat awkward behavior, concepts in JavaScript is little tricky to understand. Hoisting is one of them. Hoisting can be divided in to two. Variable hoisting and function hoisting. We'll first look at variable hoisting. Variable hoisting If you execute below line you'll get a ReferenceError. This file contains...

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Introduction to Azure Search

Azure search is simply a cloud service which gives developers an API for rich search experience. It executes queries over a user-defined index. Azue search supports, Search data from multiple content types and platforms AI powered indexing to extract text from image files or key phrases from raw text Create search experience with filters, synonyms, auto-complete and text analysis for "did you...

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Authentication and Authorization in ASP.NET Core

Common vulnerabilities in software Cross-site scripting attacks SQL Injection Cross-Site request forgery Open redirect attacks Authenticiation ASP.NET Core Identity is a membership system that adds login functionality to ASP.NET Core apps. External login providers are also supported. (Read the article) Identity is enabled by calling UseAuthentication() which adds authentication middleware...

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Software Architecture Design - Considerations

Image Credits  : Colour Box Architecture of anything defines how well the thing is designed and how long it's going to last. Be it a a building, a car or anything the same rule applies. It is the same when it comes to a software architecture as well. If the architecture of a software is designed well, it should be able to accommodate any...

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Getting started with ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core is a complete redesign of ASP.NET framework. It is open source and cross platform. This can be run on .NET Core or full .NET framework. Dependency injection in ASP.NET Core By default ASP.NET Core supports dependency injection...

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Getting Started with Azure CDN

For a better user experience and a faster delivery of content from server to client, both caching and CDN (content delivery network) comes hand in hand. When considering performance it is important to use both of  these techniques for better user experience (See Caching vs CDN - Stackoverflow). CDN can be used to cache static web content to provide content faster to end users. It caches content...

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Catch these things in EF Core

            var b = _context.Tasks.Include(j => j.TaskItems).Include(j => j.Creator); TaskItems is an ICollection in Task object, hence it'll execute separately in SQL Server. Since Creator is a 1 to 1 mapping, It'll do a inner join with Task.             var a = _context.Tasks.Include(j => j.TaskItems).ThenInclude(j => j.Status); First...

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Microservices what is it really

Image Credit : Contentful Microservices is a architectural pattern where a structure of an application is decomposed as collection of loosely coupled services. These services are responsible for handling separate business capabilities. Microservices helps software teams to continuously deliver large scale complex application in pieces. (Should...

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ASP.NET Core Request Pipeline

With ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core lot of things has changed. ASP.NET had a request processing pipeline with lots of events such as BeginRequest, EndRequest etc. With Core the architecture was changed. This is how ASP.NET Core application is initialized ASP.NET Core now has the concept of Middlewares. You can have many middlewares as you need and...

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