ASP.NET Core Social authentication without Identity

This blog post is about how to configure and use ASP.NET Core Social Authentication without ASP.NET Core identity. In this post I am using Google Authentication provider, you can use Facebook or Twitter. Only the authentication provider and associated configuration only will change. To use Google Authentication, you need to...


How to map custom domain and SSL to Azure app service programmatically

If you’re building SAAS applications, it is a good practise to provide sub domains to tenants. If you’re using Azure VMs it is simple and straight forward. You can configure the A NAME in DNS records and create a wild card CNAME record to the domain name of your Azure...


Implementing a Twitter Bot using Azure Cognitive Services and Azure Functions

We can improve our personal branding is creating content and by posting to social media consistently. In this article, I am creating an Azure Serverless function, which helps to fetch news articles using Azure Cognitive Services — Bing News API and post content to Twitter. I am also using Azure...


Building COVID 19 FAQ ChatBot using Azure Cognitive Services and Azure Bot Framework

The whole world is fighting against the Novel Corona Virus or COVID 19. One of the major challenges the world faces is fake news. The WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had said in February itself, “We are not just fighting an epidemic; we are fighting an infodemic.”. Many organizations like...


Building a Zoom Bot with ASP.NET Core

This post is about how to create a Zoom bot with ASP.NET Core. Zoom is a collaboration solution by Zoom Communications Inc. In the Zoom developer documentation, they are implemented a Chat bot using Nodejs. In this post I am explaining how to implement a simple chatbot using ASP.NET Core....


Building mailinator clone using SendGrid and ASP.NET Core

This post is about how to create a mailinator clone using SendGrid Inbound parse webhooks and ASP.NET Core. Mailinator is a service which offers dynamic email inbox for testing purposes. In this post I am creating a similar service using SendGrid Inbound parse webhooks - which helps to listen for...


Adding Chrome push notifications to web applications

This post is about how to create and consume Chrome push notifications in Web Applications. Push notifications helps application developers to build more engaging apps for the users. In this post I am using Chrome Desktop notification service to build push notifications. So first we need to build an Firebase...


Introduction to Microsoft DevSkim

This post is about Microsoft DevSkim. DevSkim is a framework of IDE extensions and Language analyzers that provide inline security analysis in the dev environment as the developer writes code. It is designed to work with multiple IDEs (VS, VS Code, Sublime Text, etc.), and has a flexible rule model...