Simplest way is to add Authorize attribute in the filter config to apply it to every controller. public class FilterConfig { public static void RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilterCollection filters) { filters.Add(new HandleErrorAttribute()); //Add this line filters.Add(new AuthorizeAttribute()); } } Another way is to have all of your controllers inheriting from a base class. This is something I do … Read more
Recently I had to get access to Google profile’s picture as well and here is how I solve it… If you just enable the code app.UseGoogleAuthentication(); in the Startup.Auth.cs file it’s not enough because in this case Google doesn’t return any information about profile’s picture at all (or I didn’t figure out how to get … Read more
As long as your web.config settings are correct, async/await works perfectly well with HttpContext.Current. I recommend setting httpRuntime targetFramework to 4.5 to remove all “quirks mode” behavior. Once that is done, plain async/await will work perfectly well. You’ll only run into problems if you’re doing work on another thread or if your await code is … Read more
Some Server side code to return PDF (Web Api). [HttpGet] [Route(“documents/{docid}”)] public HttpResponseMessage Display(string docid) { HttpResponseMessage response = Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest); var documents = reader.GetDocument(docid); if (documents != null && documents.Length == 1) { var document = documents[0]; docid = document.docid; byte[] buffer = new byte[0]; //generate pdf document MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(); MyPDFGenerator.New().PrintToStream(document, memoryStream); … Read more
The answer is right there in your code. What does this return? var userID = User.Identity.GetUserId(); If you are using ASP.NET Identity, then after logging in (and redirecting to another page), the IPrincipal.IIdentity should be a ClaimsIdentity. You can try this: var claimsIdentity = User.Identity as ClaimsIdentity; if (claimsIdentity != null) { // the principal … Read more
The steps to apply a theme are fairly simple. To really understand how everything works together, you’ll need to understand what the ASP.NET MVC 5 template is providing out of the box and how you can customize it for your needs. Note: If you have a basic understanding of how the MVC 5 template works, … Read more
Child actions must be invoked synchronously. Issue 601 I am also not aware of any recent updates to the current MVC libraries allowing this functionality. A comment on Issue 601, hints at this functionality being added in MVC vNext, aka. MVC6. Child actions look to be replaced with ViewComponent which can be invoked asynchronously from … Read more
Update the MVC project Use Nuget to get the newest Web API. Project – Right click – Manage Nuget Packages – Search for Web API (Microsoft ASP.NET Web API …) and install it to your MVC project. Then you still need to get Web API routing to work. From Microsoft’s Configuring ASP.NET Web API 2 … Read more
You can’t mock extension methods directly, so your best bet is to drill down until you hit the properties and methods upon which the extension method depends that are mockable. In this case, IIdentity.GetuUserId() is an extension method. I’d post it, but the library is not currently open source, so you’ll have to see for … Read more
For me the solution was a much simpler one. In my Solution Explorer in Visual Studio, I right click on the web project, chose properties and then navigated to the “web” tab. From there I changed the Project URL to another port number. For example, if it was http://localhost:1052 – I changed it to http://localhost:4356. … Read more