To maintain full control over the Identity UI in an ASP.NET Core 2.1 MVC project, scaffold the identity using the Windows version of Visual Studio 2017. Scaffold the Identity Right click the web application project and select Add, New Scaffolded Item… On the left side of the Add Scaffold dialog select Identity, and click the Add button …
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Error unprotecting the session cookie in an ASP.NET Core MVC application.
The new ASP.NET Core MVC framework automatically displays a message for the user to accept the application’s privacy policy. The default message is “Use this space to summarize your privacy and cookie use policy.” No cookies are saved in the user’s browser until they click the Accept button. Even after accepting the terms, if the browser …
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Set the environment for an ASP.NET Core MVC web application
When the ASP.NET Core MVC web application starts, reads the name of the environment for an environment variable of the host computer. The compiled application contains the configuration for all supported environments, making possible to build and deploy the same artifact in every environment. If the ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT environment variable is not defined, the Production environment settings are …
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Return values to the controller in the model from the ASP.NET MVC view
When we create an ASP.NET MVC web application, the model (an object) is the easiest way to return values from the view to the controller. For the view to be able to return the values in the model, make sure the model contains properties, not fields, for every value with { get; set; } public class MyViewModel { public …
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Reverse engineer a database with AspNetCore in Visual Studio
For some reason the .NETCore designers did not think, that developers want to follow best practices by separating the data layer from the presentation layer. The Entity framework out of the box only works if the database is accessed from the main application project. When we try to reverse engineer a PostgreSQL database from a …
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Procedure or function ‘`…_Insert`’ cannot be found in database …
When you use the Microsoft .NET Entity framework to access a MySql database, the autogenerated code throws an error when you try to insert a row into the database with context.MY_TABLE.Add(MY_OBJECT); Server Error in ‘/’ Application. Procedure or function ‘`…_Insert`’ cannot be found in database ‘`…`’. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of …
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NotSupportedException: Unable to determine the provider name for provider factory of type ‘MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlClientFactory’. Make sure that the ADO.NET provider is installed or registered in the application config
In a two-tier web application, the data layer is in a separate project. This allows better separation between the presentation layer and the data layer. This way you can reuse the data project in another application that targets the same database. To access a MySql database you need to add the MySql.Data and MySql.Data.Entity NuGet packages to …
The given assembly name or codebase was invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131047)
When I made changes to the web.config file of an ASP.Net C# application, I have accidentally deleted a comma, and I started to get the runtime error message: The given assembly name or codebase was invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131047) Make sure all necessary commas are there in the config files, Visual Studio does not …
IronPython
IronPython can expose Python types to C# libraries, and expose C# libraries to Python code.