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Implementing paging in ASP.NET Core MVC

June 30, 2022 by Anuraj

AspNetCore

This post is about how to implement paging in ASP.NET Core MVC applications. For the implementation I am using a nuget package - X.PagedList.Mvc.Core. In the controller action method we need to set the page as the argument like this.

Implementing Breadcrumbs in ASP.NET Core

June 30, 2022 by Anuraj

AspNetCore

This post is about how to implement breadcrumbs in ASP.NET MVC Core. A breadcrumb is a type of secondary navigation that shows a user’s current location in the website as well as the “history” of how he got there. In this post I am using a nuget package called - SmartBreadcrumbs.

Automate Security Testing with ZAP and GitHub Actions

June 08, 2022 by Anuraj

DevSecOps DevOps Github Actions

This post is about running automated security tests on your web application with the help OWASP ZAP and GitHub Actions. In GitHub actions, OWASP ZAP provides a baseline scan feature which helps to find common security faults in a web application without doing any active attacks. The ZAP baseline action scans a target URL for vulnerabilities and maintains an issue in GitHub repository for the identified alerts. We can configure this action in Github public and private repositories. To get started first create an empty GitHub repository. And once it is created, click on the Actions tab. Either choose the Skip this and set up a workflow yourself option or select Simple workflow actions.

Handling multiple submit buttons in a single form in ASP.NET Core

June 07, 2022 by Anuraj

AspNetCore

This post is about how to work with multiple submit buttons in aspnet core form. Sometimes you have to use multiple submit buttons in a single form in ASP.NET Core. In HTML forms we can do this with the help of formaction attribute. But this attribute will not work in ASP.NET Core. In ASP.NET Core you need to use asp-action attribute instead.

Deploying a Static Site to Azure Using the az CLI

May 13, 2022 by Anuraj

Azure DevOps Github Actions

This post is about deploying a static sites to Azure storage account using Azure CLI and configuring GitHub actions to deploy the files. Recently I wrote a blog post on enabling Angular GZip encoding - in this post I am deploying the changes using Azure CLI and configuring a GitHub action to deploy the changes to storage account.

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