Edi Wang

.NET Developer, Microsoft MVP

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15

JAN

Caveats in ASP.NET Core Data Protection

ASP.NET Core provides a built in Data Protection mechanism to let us encrypt or decrypt sensitive data. There are some limitations that can cause problems while bringing convenience. I met some problems these days. My Scenario My blog system has a feature to send email notifications, so you need to configure an email account to let the program use that account to send mail to an administrator ...

.NET Core AES Encryption

05

JAN

Auto Refresh Settings Changes in ASP.NET Core Runtime

In ASP.NET Core, if you modify the settings in appsettings.json, you will have to restart the site to take effect. Is there a way to refresh and apply it automatically after you modify the settings? Background Let's take a look at a website created by ASP.NET Core default templates. It includes two settings files: appsettings.json appsettings.Development.json The former one is used in pro...

ASP.NET .NET Core

31

DEC

How to Remove Default FDS Effects in UWP Apps

The Fluent Design System introduced by Windows 10 from v1709 is very beautiful, the latest v1809 further refined FDS, many UWP built in controls got FDS effect by default while developers do not need to do anything. This is usually a good thing, but it can also cause performance problems for some apps. My Character Map UWP is one of the victimized apps, and let's take a look at how to remove the d...

UWP FDS

28

DEC

Dependency Injection with Multiple Implementations in ASP.NET Core

The built-in Dependency Injection (DI) in ASP.NET Core is very useful, but how do you deal with an interface has multiple implementations? Can the runtime choose one of these implementations based on configuration? Is there a way to get rid of reflection? Let me show you how to dynamically select a specific implementation of an interface at run time according to the configuration file without refl...

ASP.NET .NET Core DI Design Pattern

27

DEC

Path Caveat with ASP.NET Core 2.2 IIS Hosting

ASP.NET Core 2.2 has been in place for some time, with a new feature that can use the new AspNetCoreModuleV2 and deploy with InProcess mode on IIS to dramatically improve performance. These days Azure App Service finally completed the deployment of this new version of the module, I configured my blog to the new module, and it exploded in production. Let's see why and how to solve it. If you don't...

ASP.NET IIS .NET Core

21

DEC

Automate Windows 10 Developer Machine Setup

One of the things programmers hate most is probably setup a computer. Because the programmer's computer environment configuration is very different from normal people. In general, it takes several hours to manually install a new development machine. Let this process automating, after all, the essence of programming is to let complex things simplify, find a way to be lazy! In fact, automatic insta...

Windows PowerShell Choco

18

DEC

Integrate Azure Application Insight Data into Your Own App

Microsoft Azure has a very powerful monitoring tool called Application Insights. It can monitor every aspect of our web application, including client and server metrics, error details, performance and so on. My blog is also using Application Insights, but everytime I want to see the data, I have to go to Azure portal, even for the basic metrics like page views or server response time. I want a way...

Azure Application Insight

15

DEC

2018 "Hour of Code" in Sanda University with Microsoft MVPs

Nowadays, computer technology is breaking the limits of human beings every day, bringing countless innovations. Getting more teenagers to learn programming techniques will bring more wonderful surprises to our world. With this in mind, on December 8th, the "Hour of Code" event was held in Shanghai Sanda University campus, sponsored by Microsoft China Public Welfare group. Three Microsoft MVPs W...

MVP Hour of Code

13

DEC

Build .NET Core 2.2 Projects on Azure DevOps

.NET Core 2.2 has been release for couple of weeks. However, the build pipeline is still failing these days. Microsoft has not installed .NET Core 2.2 SDK to the hosted VS2017 agents yet. Let's see how to work around this issue and have a success build for our .NET Core 2.2 apps. 1. Add Task Edit your build definition, and click the "+" button to add a new task. 2. Add .NET Core SDK Install...

Azure .NET Core DevOps

01

DEC

微软Azure予力Green Dot客服成就不凡

碧点公司（Green Dot）是仔细聆听消费者心声，以消费者为导向的金融科技创新公司，致力于为大众带来高效、便捷与体验舒适的个人银行业务。Green Dot创造了预付借记卡产业，也是美国最大的可增值预付借记卡和现金充值业务服务供应商。 在2018年11月23日-24日举办的GreenDot Hackathon活动上，来自Web团队的四名开发人员 Edi Wang、Eric Wang、Emon Zan 和Jimmy Yang 组成的 “TBD” 小组，将微软智慧云Azure的人工智能服务与公司客服业务紧密结合，实现了人工智能赋能客服机器人的效果。该机器人能够理解人类自然语言，并在实时聊天中使用语音或文字准确回答用户提问，这将极大缓解人工客服的压力。 传统客服经常需要面对复杂的用户提问，而这些提问可以总结为几个常见问题，我们称之为F...

Azure AI Bot MVP