Blazor allows you to build your WebAssembly (also known as WASM) applications by leveraging the .NET platform. Thanks to Auth0, you can also easily secure them by adding support for authentication and authorization, as this article will show. Let’s start! Building a Blazor WebAssembly Application In a previous article, you built a Blazor application by using the …
If you like me would like to know about the usage of your API and take actions based on raw data, then you for sure would like to track and visualize API usage. Some great things you also would be capable of doing are charging a customer based on the number of API calls made …
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This is a 2 part-series post. Part 1: Key concepts that you should know when using OpenTelemetry Metrics with .NET. If you want to read it, click here. Part 2: A practical example about how to add OpenTelemetry Metrics on a real life .NET app and how to visualize those metrics using Prometheus and Grafana. Just …
This is a 2 part-series post. Part 1: Key concepts that you should know when using OpenTelemetry Metrics with .NET. Part 2: A practical example about how to add OpenTelemetry Metrics on a real life .NET app and how to visualize those metrics using Prometheus and Grafana. If you want to read it, click here OpenTelemetry …
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Just show me the codeAs always if you don’t care about the post I have upload the source code on my Github A few months ago the first stable version of the OpenTelemetry client for dotnet was released and since then I have wanted to write a little bit about it. OpenTelemetry is a set of …
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I recently went through the processing of callback events for an in house API. The API required to validate that the events were sent by X, not by a third party. X generates signatures using a hash-based message authentication code (HMAC) with SHA-256 signatures. Those signatures then needed to be converted to base64. Amazon S3 uses …
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Here are some official Microsoft websites that you really should bookmark when studying for the AZ-204 exam: Learning paths on MS Learn: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/exams/az-204#two-ways-to-prepare Azure Code Samples: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/samples/?sort=0 Official Azure Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ Official Microsoft Azure YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/windowsazure Official Microsoft Developer YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsMica-v34Irf9KVTh6xx-g Azure REST API Browser https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/?view=Azure Microsoft Labs and Workshops – Practice is the key to success …
DateTime data type can be trouble. In SQL Server, there are many datetime datatypes. Some of them are in UTC format, some of them has time zone information, some of them is just basic date and time or just date. Depending on what you need, you can pick one of them and hopefully you pick …
In this tutorial, I will share how to automatically confirm users in your application without sending the confirmation code. When users signup in for your application normally you will send a confirmation code in their email or phone to confirm their account. This tutorial will be helpful if you are using AWS Cognito. Assuming you …
In this article, let’s look at how we can design and build such an API that encapsulates all of User Identity Management functionalities such as Login.. Introduction AWS Cognito provides OAuth2 auth flows such as Authorization Code where the application can redirect to AWS Cognito hosted login screens where the user credentials are validated against …