ASP.NET Identity is a .NET library that allows you to easily implement a user management system for your application. It offers out of the box the following: registration, login, two-factor authentication, external login providers, email confirmation, security roles, and claims. If you create an application from start, you have the option to choose to add the Identity. What if you … Read more
Regular Expressions (aka Regex) are popular because it lets validate your data. Developers use them to validate input controls for emails, phone numbers, or usernames. In .NET we have the Regex class which can validate a string based on a pattern. What if you want to generate a string from a pattern, instead of validating it. Then you can use … Read more
The minification process is one of the most important steps to improve the speed of your website. The minification goal is to decrease the size of the files and resources sent to the users. This process implies removing unnecessary symbols, white characters, and redundant code. It also means rewriting your code to take up as little space as possible. For … Read more
Few ASP.NET programmers know search engine optimization. This article wants to be a short introduction for them. I will only present things that you, as a .NET developer, can do. I will don’t bother with what keywords to use. Your primary mission is to offer an excellent experience for your website users, and the SEO will improve. Measure the website … Read more
AVIF is a new image format that is similar to WebP. It offers better compression and more quality per byte. Big websites like Netflix use it to show images to users. Currently, AVIF is only supported by some browsers, but that will change in the near future. Why use the AVIF format? Using image formats like WebP and AVIF increases … Read more