Accessing to Camera on Mobile Devices from ASP.NET Core Application in Vue.js and TypeScript

3rd of March, 2017 / / No Comments

In the previous post, we built an ASP.NET Core application using Vue.js and TypeScript. As a working example, we’re building a mobile web application. Many modern web browsers supporting HTML5 can access to multimedia devices on users’ computer, smartphones or tablets, such as camera and microphone. The Navigator.getUserMedia() API enables us to access to those resources. In this post, we’re actually going to implement a feature for camera access on our computer and mobile devices, by writing codes in VueJs and TypeScript.… [Keep reading] “Accessing to Camera on Mobile Devices from ASP.NET Core Application in Vue.js and TypeScript”

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”

Writing Vue.js Applications in TypeScript on ASP.NET Core

24th of February, 2017 / / No Comments

In the previous post, we’ve briefly walked through how to build Vue.js application on ASP.NET Core. Like other modern JavaScript framework, VueJs also supports TypeScript out-of-the-box. If we can get full benefits from TypeScript to build a VueJs app, it would be awesome! There are many resources referring to the combination of VueJs and TypeScript. However, they are not using the basic template that VueJs provides, which brings about less confidence to those developers who just started using VueJs.… [Keep reading] “Writing Vue.js Applications in TypeScript on ASP.NET Core”

Running Vue.js on ASP.NET Core Applications

14th of February, 2017 / / 48 Comments

Vue.js has recently got many attentions as it is relatively easier to learn and lighter in size, comparing to other popular frameworks like Angular 1, Angular 2 or React. By providing a middleware, ASP.NET Core supports those front-end frameworks such as Angular2, Aurelia, React, Knockout, etc, while Vue has been excluded out-of-the-box. Even though we can find many good articles and code samples to integrate Vue and ASP.NET Core, as they don’t use the basic template that Vue is providing, it’s a little difficult for developers to apply at their first glance, who want to use both Vue and ASP.NET… [Keep reading] “Running Vue.js on ASP.NET Core Applications”

Integrating Microsoft Flow with Azure Functions for Non-IT People

27th of January, 2017 / / No Comments

Microsoft Flow (Flow) creates automated workflows between various apps and services so that users can get notifications, collect data and more. This is similar to Azure Logic Apps (Logic Apps), but has different target audiences such as marketing, sales or all other non-IT related people. This document provides high-level comparisons between Flow, Logic Apps and Azure Functions.
Flow contains comprehensive number of pre-defined workflows called templates so we can just simply choose one of them, provide necessary information and use it.… [Keep reading] “Integrating Microsoft Flow with Azure Functions for Non-IT People”

Adding YAML Settings into ASP.NET Core Apps

25th of January, 2017 / / 3 Comments

Unlike traditional ASP.NET web apps using web.config for configuration, ASP.NET Core apps supports various file formats for it. When we actually see the source codes, configuration supports XML, JSON, INI, Azure Key Vault, in-memory collection, command line arguments and environment variables. However, another popular format, YAML is not officially supported in ASP.NET Core at the time of writing. In this post, we are going to walk through how we can import YAML settings file to support ASP.NET… [Keep reading] “Adding YAML Settings into ASP.NET Core Apps”

Testing Precompiled Azure Functions

20th of January, 2017 / / No Comments

Azure Functions has recently added a new feature that allows precompiled assembly to run functions. This gives us a great confidence with regards to unit testing. In this post, we are walking through how to unit test functions with ease, like which we do tests everyday.

The sample code used in this post can be found at HERE.

Function without Dependency

We’re not digging down precompiled function too much as it’s on the document.… [Keep reading] “Testing Precompiled Azure Functions”

Is Azure Functions over Web API Beneficial?

1st of January, 2017 / / 22 Comments

Whenever I meet clients and give a talk about Azure Functions, they are immediately interested in replacing their existing Web API features with Azure Functions. In this post, I’d like to discuss:

  • Can Azure Functions replace Web API?
  • Is it worth doing?

It would be a good idea to have a read through this article, Serverless Architectures, before starting.

HTTP Trigger Function == Web API Action

One of characteristics of Serverless Architecture is “event-driven”.… [Keep reading] “Is Azure Functions over Web API Beneficial?”

Debugging Azure Functions in Our Local Box

2nd of December, 2016 / / No Comments

Because of the nature of Azure Functions – Serverless Architecture, it’s a bit tricky to run it on my local machine for debugging purpose.
There is an approach related to the issue in this post, Testing Azure Functions in Emulated Environment with ScriptCs. According to the article, we can use ScriptCs for local unit testing. However, the question on debugging still remains because testing and debugging is a different story. Fortunately, Microsoft has recently released Visual Studio Tools for Azure Functions.… [Keep reading] “Debugging Azure Functions in Our Local Box”

Implementing HTTP Request Handler on ASP.NET Core Applications

24th of November, 2016 / / 2 Comments

ASP.NET WebForm or MVC applications rely on global.asax to process HTTP request pipelines. Within global.asax, each HTTP request goes through declared HTTP modules and HTTP handlers based on events. On the other hands, ASP.NET Core applications use OWIN middlewares. Actually, those middlewares now take care of what HTTP modules and HTTP handlers do. In this post, we are going to implement an HTTP request handler on a ASP.NET Core application.

Why Does It Matter?

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