Oqtane 3.2 For .NET MAUI & Blazor Hybrid
September 13, 2022
The 3.2 release introduces some powerful new multi-platform capabilities based on .NET MAUI and Blazor Hybrid, as well as additional performance optimizations and developer experience improvements.
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Oqtane 3.1.4 Released
July 27, 2022
The 3.1.4 release is primarily focused on stabilization. This includes a variety of performance optimizations, user experience improvements, and localization enhancements. Based on the fact that performance is one of overarching goals for the framework, we conducted some load testing and optimized the most frequently executed methods both from a client and server workload perspective.
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Oqtane 3.1.3 Released
June 27, 2022
The 3.1.3 release is primarily focused on stabilization. This includes a variety of user experience improvements, localization enhancements, and support for an Unauthenticated User role to enable targeted interactions with visitors.
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Blazor and Micro Frontend Applications (MFE)
May 19, 2022
Microservices have exploded in popularity in the past decade, with many organizations attempting to use this architectural approach to avoid the limitations of large, monolithic systems. While much has been written about using this approach to decompose the backend of enterprise software applications, many companies continue to struggle with how to manage the frontend.
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Oqtane 3.1.2 Released
May 14, 2022
The 3.1.2 release is primarily focused on stabilization. This includes critical fixes to a number of key scenarios including file uploading, MySQL database support, and creating new isolated tenants.
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Blazor Server and Hot Reload Challenges
May 13, 2022
Hot Reload was introduced in .NET 6 and it is enabled by default in the latest versions of Visual Studio. The idea behind Hot Reload is that developers can modify code assets in their project and those changes will be immediately reflected in their run-time development environment. However there is some unexpected behavior you should be aware of.
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Oqtane 3.1.1 Released
May 03, 2022
The 3.1.1 release is primarily focused on stabilization, ensuring that all of the features introduced in 3.1 function as optimally as possible. This includes improvements to external login to include email verification logic for existing user accounts, improvements for retreiving user identifier claims, and the ability to customize your authentication cookie name for each site.
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Antiforgery and Blazor
April 25, 2022
The key to understanding Antiforgery is that it is directly linked to the user's identity. This means that the antiforgery token and cookie that are generated by .NET Core are only valid for a specific user running in a specific context. So each time a user's identity changes ( ie.login/logout) new antiforgery tokens and cookies need to be generated for them to remain valid. This post explores how to resolve this challenge in a Blazor application.
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Customizing Antiforgery Behavior For Cookies And Bearer Tokens
April 15, 2022
The most common way of implementing Antiforgery is by using the [ValidateAntiForgeryToken] action filter on your actions or controllers (this is enabled by default on Razor Pages). However if your application supports multiple types of authorization it has some challenges. This dual authorization approach is common with APIs where you have a same-domain web application that relies on cookies but also supports external clients connecting via bearer tokens.