Cosmos DB is a cloud database product from Microsoft that offers scalable and high-performance services. The core product runs on a proprietary NoSQL database that should look familiar to experienced MongoDB developers. Microsoft offers several APIs in addition to the core Cosmos DB API. These include APIs for:
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Nickolas Fisher 5 min read
.NET 6 is here and many of us are making preparations to update .NET 5 codebases to .NET 6. As part of this review, today you will learn how to implement the client credentials flow in ASP.NET Core Web API.
Read moreFor large enterprise companies, boundaries around each team are crucial for maintaining systems that are owned by software engineers. This is accomplished by allowing individual teams to own their systems and expose them via APIs.
Read moreDependency injection is a tried and proven design pattern for producing code that is testable, readable, and reusable. This is achieved by creating (or increasing) a separation of concerns, where each class has a dedicated area of responsibility.
Read moreAzure Cognitive Services is a collection of cloud-based AI products from Microsoft Azure to add cognitive intelligence into your applications quickly. With Azure Cognitive Services, you can add AI capabilities using pre-trained models, so you don't need machine learning or data science experience. Azure Cognitive Services has vision, speech, language,…
Read moreNote: In May 2025, the Okta Integrator Free Plan replaced Okta Developer Edition Accounts, and the Okta CLI was deprecated. We preserved this post for reference, but the instructions no longer work as written. Replace the Okta CLI commands by manually configuring Okta following the instructions in our Developer Documentation.
Read moreWhen it comes to code quality and code security, SonarQube is your teammate! This analysis tool is pretty straightforward to use, especially with some help from Docker.
Read moreASP.NET Web Forms framework has been the cornerstone technology of .Net for web development since the release of .Net Framework in 2002. ASP.NET Web Forms includes a layer of abstraction for developers so that you don't need to care about HTML, JavaScript, or any other front-end technology. It provides a…
Read moreToggling functionality using feature flags in .NET Core apps is quite straightforward, especially with a neat little feature flag management service.
Read moreImplementing search functionality in your .NET Core apps doesn't have to be hard! Using Elasticsearch makes it easy to develop fast, searchable apps.
Read moreNote: In May 2025, the Okta Integrator Free Plan replaced Okta Developer Edition Accounts, and the Okta CLI was deprecated. We preserved this post for reference, but the instructions no longer work as written. Replace the Okta CLI commands by manually configuring Okta following the instructions in our Developer Documentation.
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Franco Tiveron 15 min read
Let's start with a background on how C# 9 got here (implementation examples start in the next section).
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Giorgi Dalakishvili 7 min read
Nowadays, using a password for authentication is becoming less and less secure. Password attacks are becoming more sophisticated, and data breaches occur more frequently. Have I Been Pwned, the website where you can check if your account has been compromised in a data breach, contains more than 10 billion accounts…
Read moreGoogle's recent approach to SameSite cookie attributes caused a bit of confusion among developers. Especially in cases where handling redirects is necessary. After doing some research in the topic I'd like this article to be a guide on how to handle SameSite cookie attributes properly in production. This guide can…
Read moreThere has been a cut-throat competition between cloud hosts in the past few years - each attempting to earn the sympathy of developers and dev-ops by rolling out shiny new tools, plugins, and integrations. There are a gazillion how-to tutorials and guides in the community on using these tools. Sometimes…
Read moreWhen it comes to developing .NET apps, Visual Studio has historically been the default choice for .NET developers for two main reasons:
Read moreAs a big fan of open source, I'm loving the fact that .NET Core is cross-platform. It opens up endless possibilities, from hobby projects, experiments, and proofs of concept, to massive high-load production applications that run on cost-effective infrastructure with high security and scalability. I usually get the simplest and…
Read moreSecurity Assertion Markup Language, more commonly known as SAML, is an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties. Most commonly these parties are an Identity Provider and a Service Provider. The primary use case for SAML has typically been to provide single sign-on (SSO) for users to…
Read moreWhen I began programming (in the '80s), computers weren't equipped with a network card by default. The internet was almost unknown and modems were slow and noisy. The software was installed from stacks of flexible floppy disks.
Read moreLast month I came out with a video tutorial on Blazor WebAssembly and I thought it would be good to follow up with a written tutorial as well.
Read moreHave you run across an error message vaguely referencing SameSite in your .NET Apps? Read on, it's time for a change to your code - and I'll explain why.
Read moreWhen the products we develop collect sensitive data, it's essential to secure and safeguard it to protect user privacy and the user's identity. Personally identifiable information (PII) is any data that can be used to identify a specific individual, such as name, email address, phone number, US Social Security number,…
Read moreIn today's connected world, APIs are becoming an essential part of software and hardware companies. APIs allow companies to expose their services to third-party developers and integrate with other services. As more and more APIs are built and exposed to the internet, it is essential to secure them from unauthorized…
Read moreIt's time to get jazzed about the future of the .NET ecosystem!
Read moreOn September 23rd, Microsoft announced the third major release of its .NET Core framework. This new release boasts better performance, support for Windows Desktop apps, improved support for Docker containers, and more. Naturally, I was excited to see this new release and get authentication hooked into it with Okta! I…
Read moreWouldn't it be great if stuff just worked? Especially in the ever-changing world of software. Chasing dependency issues and debugging arcane operating system errors - not a good use of time.
Read moreMicrosoft Azure makes it incredibly easy to get a basic API/microservice up and running quickly! If you are unfamiliar with building serverless architecture in the Microsoft ecosystem, using Azure Functions has become a quick way to get back-end code up and running that is easy to understand and usable for…
Read moreVisual Studio has not always been as user-friendly on the Mac as it is on a Windows machine. Lately, however, the stable release of VS for Mac is really starting to feel like a simple, but luxurious cousin to Visual Studio 2019. Different, but related. Installation on a Mac is…
Read moreNot too long ago, deployments were done by hand - manually pushed to a physical server somewhere in a building your company owned. The software engineering world has come a long way since then, and we have more options than ever get our code and data live, automatically. Here are…
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Heather Downing 5 min read
Authentication for voice, specifically Amazon's Alexa, has its limitations. The initial Account Linking process Amazon provides for identification works for many scenarios, but it is only done once (signing into the skill via the Alexa mobile app or website), and all subsequent sessions with the skill are linked - no…
Read moreAs a C# developer, I became interested in how using a serverless function could complement existing projects I had done in ASP.NET 4.x. Enhancing ecosystems by using it for new requirements - without starting over from scratch - really had appeal. AWS Lambda came along first, with Azure Functions emerging…
Read moreMicrosoft recently released the preview of Visual Studio 2019 for Windows, and it's got lots of improvements and features! After reading the release notes, I reached out to Allison Buchholtz-Au and Kendra Havens on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft to get an idea of what features should be configured…
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Read moreOne of the improvements in the latest version of ASP.NET Core (MVC ) is a new and simplified authentication integration. However, managing authentication on your own is still a considerable burden. Not only do you need to handle signup and login, but you also have to set up the database,…
Read moreBuying things on the Internet has become a daily activity and is a feature many new projects require. In this tutorial, I will show you how to build an app to sell tickets using an Angular 6 single page app (SPA) using an ASP.NET Core 2.1 backend API. You'll build…
Read moreWith the release of ASP.NET Core, there are several templates in the DotNet CLI. One of those templates is an Angular template that scaffolds a single page application built with Angular and ASP.NET Core. The problem with that template is that it scaffolds an Angular 4.2.5 project and Angular released…
Read moreThese days it's prevalent to have a "back-end" and a "front-end" allowing two (or more) teams to work on a project. Microsoft's latest version of the ASP.NET Core framework is cross-platform and performant. Pairing it with the power and flexibility of Facebook's React framework makes it a pretty stable platform.…
Read moreOne of the scariest features of Visual Studio is without a doubt right-click to publish. There are very few instances in which you'd actually want to make use of this "feature" and so many more in which it's a terrible idea. In this post I'll walk you through the right…
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