Remote Access to Local ASP.NET Core Applications from Mobile Devices

27th of February, 2017 / / 4 Comments

One of the most popular tools for ASP.NET or ASP.NET Core application development is IIS Express. We can’t deny it. Unless we need specific requirements, IIS Express is a sort of de-facto web server for debugging on developers’ local machines. With IIS Express, we can easily access to our local web applications with no problem during the debugging time.

There are, however, always cases that we need to access to our locally running website from another web browsers like mobile devices.… [Keep reading] “Remote Access to Local ASP.NET Core Applications from Mobile Devices”

Publish to a New Azure Website from behind a Proxy

13th of November, 2014 / / 5 Comments

One of the great things about Azure is the ease of which you can spin up a new cloud based website using Powershell. From there you can quickly publish any web-based solution from Visual Studio to the Azure hosted site.

To show how simple this is; After configuring PowerShell to use an Azure Subscription, I’ve created a new Azure hosted website in the new Melbourne (Australia Southeast) region:

That was extremely easy. What next?… [Keep reading] “Publish to a New Azure Website from behind a Proxy”

Deploy an Ultra High Availability MVC Web App on Microsoft Azure – Part 2

4th of November, 2014 / / 2 Comments

In the first post in this series we setup our scenario and looked at how we can build out an ultra highly available Azure SQL Database layer for our applications. In this second post we’ll go through setting up the MVC Web Application we want to deploy so that it can leverage the capabilities of the Azure platform.

MVC project changes

This is actually pretty straight forward – you can take the sample MVC project from Codeplex and apply these changes easily.… [Keep reading] “Deploy an Ultra High Availability MVC Web App on Microsoft Azure – Part 2”

Deploy an Ultra High Availability MVC Web App on Microsoft Azure – Part 1

3rd of November, 2014 / / 2 Comments

As public cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure mature it is becoming easier to build deployment architectures that are substantially resilient to faults in cloud platforms that are increasingly unlikely to ever eventuate due to the previously mentioned maturity!

We’ll take a look at how we can deploy an ultra highly available database-backed ASP.Net MVC Website using Microsoft Azure across this post and my next one.

Desired State

The diagram below shows what we will be aiming to achieve with our setup.… [Keep reading] “Deploy an Ultra High Availability MVC Web App on Microsoft Azure – Part 1”

ASP.NET Web API Integration Testing with One Line of Code

26th of October, 2014 / / 13 Comments

A very popular post about integration testing ASP.NET Web API was published quite some time ago. However, since then, OWIN has been released. OWIN makes integration testing ASP.NET Web API much simpler. This post describes what is required to set an OWIN-based integration testing framework up.

This, believe it or not, only requires a single line of code with OWIN self-hosting! It assumes that your web API project is powered by ASP.NET Web API 2.2 with OWIN.… [Keep reading] “ASP.NET Web API Integration Testing with One Line of Code”