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.NET Aspire: Using .NET 10 Aspire Architecture for Application Implementation

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In this article we will see the .NET Aspire for the application development. The application implemented is online shopping portal based on independant services. MS-Online Shop is a cloud-ready shopping application built with .NET Aspire, Blazor, YARP API Gateway, SQL Server, Redis, and small focused services for identity, products, orders, and payments. The application supports customer and seller workflows, JWT authentication, product categories and manufacturers, Indian rupee pricing, and page-level light/dark theme support. Need of Docker for This Application Docker is needed because this application does not run only one web project. It also needs backing infrastructure such as SQL Server and Redis. .NET Aspire can start and connect these resources automatically, but container resources require a container runtime. On a developer machine, Docker Desktop or another compatible container runtime provides that environment. In this solution Docker is mainly used for: ...
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ASP.NET Core 10: Securing a .NET 10 Minimal API with ASP.NET Core Identity Built-in Endpoints, EF Core & Swagger

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In this article, we will explore ASP.NET Core 10 Security for Minimal APIs with Built-In Security Enhancements  Why ASP.NET Core Identity's Built-in API Endpoints? Starting with .NET 8, ASP.NET Core Identity ships a set of ready-made Minimal API endpoints for authentication. Instead of hand-rolling /register , /login , /refresh-token , and email-confirmation logic, you can call three simple extension methods: AddIdentityApiEndpoints<TUser>() — This registers Identity's services configured for API scenarios (no cookies/redirects, JSON responses). .AddEntityFrameworkStores<TDbContext>() — This tells Identity to persist users, roles, and tokens using Entity Framework Core. app.MapIdentityApi<TUser>() — This maps the actual HTTP routes (register, login, refresh, confirmEmail, resendConfirmationEmail, forgotPassword, resetPassword, manage/info, manage/2fa) onto your route group. Combined with Bearer tokens  instead of cookies, this offfer...
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ASP.NET Core 10 AI features: Building an Azure OpenAI Image Generator with gpt-image-1.5

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ASP.NET Core 10 continues the modern web development story for .NET developers by combining minimal hosting, dependency injection, Razor Pages, configuration, HTTP clients, validation, and static web assets in a clean application model. In this project, these ASP.NET Core 10 features are used to build an AI image generator named aspnet10aiimg . The application accepts a prompt, verifies the quality and safety of that prompt, sends it to Azure OpenAI, and displays the generated image in the browser. The AI model used in this project is gpt-image-1.5 , an Azure OpenAI image generation model. It accepts text prompts and returns generated image data. In the app, the server calls the Azure OpenAI image generations REST endpoint using the deployment name configured for your Azure OpenAI resource. The API version used is 2025-04-01-preview , and the project expects image output as base64 PNG data, which is converted into a browser-ready data URI. Project implementation diagram...
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