Ben Foster shares practical guides on ASP.NET Core, Minimal APIs, and modern .NET development, helping developers build efficient web APIs.
132 articles from this blog
A guide on unit testing OWIN OAuth middleware for third-party API integration, using Vimeo as an example.
A technical guide on using ImageMagick to automatically detect and remove black bars (letterboxing/pillarboxing) from video thumbnails and cover images.
Explains the EU's new VAT rules for SaaS businesses, the challenges they create, and how to comply using the MOSS scheme.
A developer shares lessons learned from building a SaaS startup, covering multi-tenancy, billing, and scaling challenges.
A technical guide on implementing logic to handle failed subscription payments and retries using Stripe's API and webhooks.
A guide on enabling CORS in ASP.NET Web API 2, comparing the Web API package and OWIN middleware approaches with configuration examples.
A PowerShell script tutorial for resolving hostnames from a CSV file to track DNS record updates.
A guide on enabling HTTPS for assets served through the Azure CDN, covering configuration steps and important certificate considerations.
A guide to defining optional parameters in AngularJS UI Router using query parameters, route parameters, and non-URL parameters.
A tutorial on setting up a high-performance image processing service using the open-source Image Resizer library and Microsoft Azure.
A technical guide on implementing Google Analytics in multi-tenant SaaS applications, covering tracking setup and reporting per tenant.
A tutorial on using AngularJS recursive templates with ng-include to display hierarchical data like category trees of any depth.
A technical comparison of Map-Reduce implementations in MongoDB and RavenDB, using a blog post tagging example.
A technical tutorial on implementing ASP.NET Identity with Entity Framework for database-backed user authentication in an MVC application.
A technical guide on implementing cookie-based authentication in ASP.NET MVC using the new ASP.NET Identity libraries and OWIN.
Introducing FitFrame.js, a jQuery plugin for making embedded iframes like YouTube and Vimeo videos fully responsive on websites.
Explains the Domain Events Pattern and introduces a deferred dispatch solution for web apps needing to commit database changes before event handling.
A developer critiques Windows Azure's support model, comparing costs and support limitations to traditional hosting providers like Arvixe.
Explains how to use OWIN pipeline hooks with extension methods to execute code before and after requests, including examples like timing and logging.
A technical guide explaining how to write OWIN middleware components in C# using five different implementation methods.
