Object oriented design is all about encapsulation. A class provides methods to manipulate its data and only allows manipulation that keeps the objects’ state correct. That works fine in theory, but in real life objects need to be loaded/materialized from a database and this usually means that property setters must be public. But not with… Continue reading Entity Framework Core and Private Properties
A form-entry Tag Helper
Writing line of business applications usually means creating a lot of forms for data entry. Writing the HTML for them over and over again is tedious and also means copy-pasting the layout structure into every single form. Copy-pasting works fine as long as we one is happy with the design, but when it needs to… Continue reading A form-entry Tag Helper
Renaming Kentor.AuthServices Nuget packages to Sustainsys.Saml2
Last year I left Kentor for new adventures as an independent consultant. I got the Kentor.AuthServices project with me, but of course need to rename it as it is not associated with Kentor any more. So how does one rename a library and nuget packges with 100k+ downloads and users all over the world? Simply… Continue reading Renaming Kentor.AuthServices Nuget packages to Sustainsys.Saml2
Using ADFS with Azure API Management
Azure API Management is an API gateway that can be used to publish APIs to the Internet. It provides features such as per-developer API keys, request throttling and request authentication. One of the way requests can be authenticated is through standard OAuth2 bearer tokens. I assume that the most common scenario is to use Azure… Continue reading Using ADFS with Azure API Management
Regaining Access to Azure VM with Expired Password
Lately I’ve been doing some experiments with Active Directory and of course I’m running my lab environment in Azure. It works great, until after 42 days the password of the one and only user account (mine) in the domain expires. Azure only provides remote desktop access to virtual machines, and in a default setup it’s… Continue reading Regaining Access to Azure VM with Expired Password