At the user group meetup last week Damien Bod shared many valuable insights in how to protect your applications. Among the many tools he showed was securityheaders.com. Unfortunately for us, this test site calculated a very bad result for the user group site: We took this result as a challenge to improve it quickly and …
I seldom use the IIS logs and whenever I must use them, I have the same question: What file matches the site I am interested in? The answer to that question is easy to find, but it is not that obvious to remember it. Maybe this post does the trick for me. Use the …
Meetup.com has a well-documented API that gives you all the information about your events you can think of. Getting the attendees, the pictures taken at your event or the comments is easy, you can even try everything out online without writing a single line of code. That great developer support unfortunately ends rather abruptly when …
Json.NET by Newtonsoft is the de-facto standard when it comes to work with JSON in .Net. The library is very popular, offers great flexibility and is easy to use. Let’s look on what you have to do to serialize and deserialize objects to JSON. Installation Open the Package Management window in Visual Studio and …
Let’s Encrypt offers free SSL certificates to protect the traffic between your website and the visitors. They are as good as the expensive commercial ones, but they need to be renewed every three months – thanks to automation, this is not a problem. I use Let’s Encrypt for all my sites and never had any …
The default behaviour for views in ASP.Net MVC up to version 5 is that they are compiled when the first user requests them in IIS. When the view isn’t that complicated, the user only experiences a minimal delay before the web page is displayed in the browser. That is true as long as the view …
With every newly installed Windows Server, I run into the same problem: This default setting is most annoying, but at least it does not take much effort to fix it. Open the settings dialog of Internet Explorer and go to the Security tab: Click on the Custom level button to open up the long list …
The plugins for WordPress are uncountable. But not all are up-to-date and work with the newest version. The result are countless hours spent finding the right plugin for the job. Today I want to share 5 plugins that are a great help for me running this blog. Akismet Anti-Spam Every blog with a comment …
Hangfire.io is a nice tool to perform background processing in .Net. Those background jobs can go from simple method calls you don’t want to block the user interface for up to recurring tasks for maintaining your application. It’s licensed under the LGPL v3 and can be used in closed source software. Should you need more …
Sending emails with C# is straightforward. You only need a few lines of code and a bit of configuration for the mail server as described in an earlier post. Taking the effort to send an email as a base line, you could jump to the conclusion that it shouldn’t be a problem to display your …