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Custom Login Validation

One of the many behaviors that I was asked recently to create was to allowing hide/show of the password and warn users that the locked character key is active. Since this solution could get complex and I just wanted to create a quick/simple demo and because of that I'm going to pick jquery. I could late come back and do it in another library but I already have a few ideas what I want to do. Notes: input - Is it standard practice to indicate on the form that Caps Lock is on? - User Experience Stack Exchange html5 - What's the difference between HTML 'hidden' and 'aria-hidden' attributes? - Stack Overflow Examples:  Edit fiddle - JSFiddle Better Passwords #3: Caps-lock Warnings — SitePoint Code Bins : Password masking in jQuery
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AspnetCore Oauth Active Directory

I'll be honest active directory has always been a difficult area for me to develop in. Which is why I prefer a basic user authorization that's just attached to the database. What I'm trying to do is leverage Oauth and inside pass in credentials to the active directory. Thous prevent users with the built in prompt and instead handle the authorization just like you would if it was inside an aspnet core Identity table. However this is no table! This means they can pass me any username and password. Not just what they are logged as under the domain (and under their browser). Very simple just difficult to explain with all the major buzz words floating around like Single Sign On, external service providers and etc. Which where I start to have trouble explain because I like to keep things simple. What my application will do is have an authorization page and redirect users to it if that are not logged in. Once I figure out they are who they say they are with the AD then continue a
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Installing Windows on Acer chromebook 15 cb3-532

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Entity Framework: ToListAynsc & WhereAsync

When upgrading aspnet mvc applications I like to take a look on how I can convert the api's to async. This sometimes is really easy but as things get more complex my queries do as well. So this is a list of ways you can form a where clause on top your  async  but note not all solutions take advantage of it. Notes on EFCore Entity Framework Core provides a set of asynchronous extension methods that can be used as an alternative to the LINQ methods that cause a query to be executed and results returned. Examples include  ToListAsync() ,  ToArrayAsync() ,  SingleAsync() , etc. There are not async versions of LINQ operators such as  Where(...) ,  OrderBy(...) , etc. because these methods only build up the LINQ expression tree and do not cause the query to be executed in the database. https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/32160/filtering-a-collection-by-an-async-result Filtering a collection by an async result ,  built an extension method called WhereAsync. publ
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NLog 4.6.2 Console Application

For most of our configuration we use the App.config file. If you do not have one, create one and copy a .csproj project’s build configs for handling App.config files or simply start a project with App.config in the visual studio template. Based on .Net framework Console Applications under the .Net 4.7.2 Framework using NLog 4.6.2 however later versions may work just as well. In the start of the App.config add the following... < configSections >     < section name= "nlog" type= "NLog.Config.ConfigSectionHandler, NLog" />   </ configSections >   < nlog throwExceptions= "true" xmlns= "http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd" xmlns:xsi= "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" >     < targets >           < target name= "database" xsi:type= "Database" dbProvider= "System.Data.SqlClient"               connectionString= "$ {gdc:item=databaseStr} "        
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