Table of contents for Sep/Oct 2023 in CODE Magazine

EDITORIAL My initial uses of the API went well. I was able to query the main list of sites and then I was able to get a list of the documents for each site. The only problem was that once I tried to access documents beyond the first site in the list, I received an HTTP 403 error. This error is a security access error that says the current user doesn't have proper access to the requested resource. This was strange. The account I was using to test was a Site Administrator account with full access. It was a head-scratcher. So I started doing what all developers do when faced with a difficult challenge. I went fishing for ideas (AKA trying stuff). My first thought was to set up an…

Julie Lerman is a Microsoft Regional director, Docker Captain, and a long-time Microsoft MVP who now counts her years as a coder in decades. She makes her living as a coach and consultant to software teams around the world. You can find Julie presenting on Entity Framework, Domain-Driven Design and other topics at user groups and conferences around the world. Julie blogs at thedatafarm.com/blog, is the author of the highly acclaimed “Programming Entity Framework” books, and many popular videos on Pluralsight.com. design—the contracting bounded context—to focus on for the initial tactical design phase. That particular bounded context presented some interesting complexity because of the many iterations a contract may go through as well as the possibility of co-authors on a book. The added complexity makes the bounded context a great…

Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early ’80s. As a Microsoft MVP since 2003, he's also involved with Microsoft as an ASP. NET Insider and ClientDev Insider. He's the author of over twenty Pluralsight courses, written eight books, an international conference speaker, and one of the Wilder Minds. You can reach him at his blog at http://wildermuth.com. He's also making his first, feature-length documentary about software developers today called “Hello World: The Film.” You can see more about it at http://helloworldfilm.com. offline use, and being able to install a website as an app outside the JavaScript framework you're using. In this article, I'll show you how. What's a Progressive Web App Although there's always been a difference between building…

Sahil Malik is a Microsoft MVP, INETA speaker, a .NET author, consultant, and trainer. Sahil loves interacting with fellow geeks in real time. His talks and trainings are full of humor and practical nuggets. His areas of expertise are cross-platform Mobile app development, Microsoft anything, and security and identity. was given to the API surface, and thinking through every possible way it would be used and abused. Products were released later, documentation was released first. Then some of us worked closely with product groups and wrote books. How times have changed! Development today is built as a skyscraper of SDKs that we constantly update, sometimes automatically, and almost never understand the inner workings and dependencies of. Security vulnerabilities creep in after we ship code, and most companies don't have budgets…

Joydip Kanjilal is an MVP (2007-2012), software architect, author, and speaker with more than 20 years of experience. He has more than 16 years of experience in Microsoft .NET and its related technologies. Joydip has authored eight books, more than 500 articles, and has reviewed more than a dozen books. of SSE, and how to implement real-time updates, etc. If you're to work with the code examples discussed in this article, you'll need the following installed in your system: • Visual Studio 2022 • .NET 7.0 • ASP.NET 7.0 Runtime If you don't already have Visual Studio 2022 installed, you can download it from here: https://visualstudio.mi-crosoft.com/downloads/. Introducing Server-Sent Events (SSE) Server-Sent Events (SSE or Event Source) is a W3C standard for real-time communication between servers and clients over HTTP. With…

including session, token, and stateless guards. In the previous article, I covered authenticating users with the Session Guard in detail. In this article, I'll cover Token Guard and explore how to authenticate a user in Laravel using tokens only. Token Authentication in Laravel is typically used when building stateless APIs. The client application (such as a mobile app or a JavaScript application) needs to authenticate with the server on every request without storing any session information on the server. Token Authentication works by issuing a token to the client upon successful authentication, which is then used to authenticate subsequent requests. The client sends this token in the request headers, and the server uses it to authenticate the user and authorize access to the requested resource. In Laravel, Sanctum is the…

Markus is the founder and publisher of CODE Magazine and is EPS President and Chief Software Architect. He is also a Microsoft RD (Regional Director) and the one of the longest (if not THE longest) running Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional). Markus is also a renowned speaker and author. Markus’ client list contains some of the world's largest companies, including many on the Fortune 500. Markus has been published extensively including MSDN Magazine, Visual Studio Magazine, his own CODE Magazine, and much more. Markus focuses on development in .NET (Windows, Web, Windows Phone, and WinRT) as well as Android and iOS. He is passionate about overall application architecture, SOA, user interfaces, general development productivity, and building maintainable and reusable systems. Just a few months ago it seems that statements like…

CODA out of whole cloth. Many of the practices we refer to as Agile pre-date Agile. In spite of being so difficult to implement and the naysaying, I've always regarded the journey, along with the pain of experience, to be worth it because that's the necessary feedback we need to improve. A common refrain for a typical team may be “Our releases are too buggy; we need to reduce defects.” How do we do that? The answer lies in the heart of Agile. Let's go find it. If you're not familiar with the Agile Manifesto or if it has been a while since you've read it, take some time to review: www.agilemani-festo.org. One page that's often overlooked is Jim Highsmith's history page: www.agile-manifesto.org/history.html. Jim is one of the 17 Agile…