Discussion on do’s and don’ts when combining AspNet with Single Page Applications such as Angular, Aurelia or React. Main question: Should we separate frontend and backend into separate solutions or keep them together as the new AspNet template in VS2015 suggests? Screencast What’s your take on it? Agree or disagree? Let me know! Until next […]
In this screencast I use the angular-cli tool for the first time to package an angular2 app for production before git deploying it to Microsoft Azure. Screencast Angular CLI The CLI is at the moment of writing in beta and very much still a work in progress. It’s an excellent tool imho for scaffolding a […]
In this episode we upgrade the ng2play repo to leverage the new 3.0 router and implement a route guard to protect components that require authentication. Here’s the entire changeset, not that bloody considering the changes but this is also a very small application. Screencast Defining Routes With the old router we decorated our app component […]
In this episode we take a first look at structured logging from an AspNet Core application using Serilog and Seq. Screencast Adding Serilog Configuring the web app to leverage serilog only requires 3 simple steps. First make sure to get the nuget packages by adding these lines to your packages.json. “Serilog.Extensions.Logging”: “1.0.0-rc2-*”, “Serilog.Sinks.RollingFile”: “2.0.0-rc-*”, “Serilog.Sinks.Seq”: […]
In this weeks screencast we start on a new page, to create a new angular2 and aspnet core seed project using the latest release candidate versions. My earlier series contains many upgrade from beta x to beta y episodes, even alphas, it’s starting to become messy to follow, hence the file new project. Make sure […]
I recently upgraded my ng2 play repo from beta 15 to rc1 and I ran into a couple of things I thought would be nice to share since I’ve been getting quite a few mails about it. angular2 -> @angular To begin with all of the packages are now distributed under the @angular npm scope. […]
Here’s a guide on how to install a certificate into Trusted Root Certificate Authorities store for Azure Cloud Services. What we want to solve In our case we had a web role (web app) that needed to communicate with a third party that we didn’t control, they were using a self signed certificate and required […]
In this weeks screencast we fully replace bootstrap with material components for angular 2. Material2 just announced their alpha 2 release, adding a bunch of components, perfect timing for live coding screencast, code at https://github.com/ajtowf/ng2_play. The ng2play repo has also been updated to the latest angular2 version which at the time of writing is beta […]
In this screecast we solve two commonly asked interview questions; faculty and traversing binary trees. Screencast What’s recursion? A recursive function is simply a function that repeatedly calls itself and the trick is to realize when to stop calling ourselves to avoid infinite loops that result in stack overflows. If the interviewers ask you to […]
This is a first attempt on a series with focus on solving commonly asked programmer interview questions, in this first episode we’ll do prime factorization. Screencast And yes, I’ve been made aware of that 21 is not a prime, not easy to code and talk at the same time. 🙂 What the interviewers are looking […]
