ASP.NET Weekly - Issue #16

Ben Adams recently gave a talk about performance in .NET Core 2.0. No video is available (yet), but his slides are a treasure trove of tips and links to useful performance articles.

I have been playing with the Serverless Framework recently to create Node.js Lambda functions, so this post showing how to use it to create .NET Core Lambda functions is very timely - for me at least 😉

A useful tip by Ricardo that shows how you can render the output of a View to a string from code. Can be helpful in many situations, like generation emails for example.

In ASP.NET Core, it’s easy to control access to Controllers and Action Methods using the [Authorize] attribute. Dave takes this level of control a step further by developing a tag helper which limits access to certain parts of views.

Dustin Horne is doing a series which takes you through Entity Framework Core 2.0

Froala Design blocks allow you to quickly build a website by composing it with pre-designed “blocks” representing many common sections for websites. It consists of over 170 free blocks based on Bootstrap 4.

On the other side of the spectrum from Froala Design Blocks is CoreUI. It is an open source, complete Bootstrap 4 based admin template with Angular, AngularJS, React.js & Vue.js support.