Mitch's Blog

Another month has passed and more security notices and upgrade risks have been identified for the DNN Platform. I'm getting regular calls with questions about risks and options, this post explores these questions in detail.

June was met with a plethora for security alerts for both the DNN Platform as well as many third-party solutions as well. This post is a round-up of all known information regarding these issues.

The more presentations I give at events, the more time I spend working on methods to provide attendees the best experience both during and after. I've recently adopted a new process for all code-samples that improves the experiences for attendees and myself.

ASP.NET templates are amazing starting points if you know exactly everything you need at the beginning. However, if you need to add things later it can get complicated. This post explores adding WebAPI and OAuth to an existing project.

Discussions have been around for a while regarding the future of .NET Core and the Full .NET Framework, more details surfaced today.

ASP.NET Core applications are amazing in that they can be published to include all needed assets, however, publishing to certain environments can be tricky the first time. I encountered issues publishing to an Azure Action Pack hoster and thought I'd share the experience.

It is important for websites to have proper, and unique, content on each page. Out of the box, with default configuration, DNN Platform introduces elements to each page that can hurt this uniqueness and you have to use the database to change it.

Browser technology is moving quickly to support more secure processes, part of this is secure password processes. FireFox's stance is quite strong and something to watch for.

Getting an accurate picture of your true unit test coverage can be almost impossible when auto-generated, or other similar code is introduced. For example, projects with EF Migrations enabled can get blasted as not-covered. Let us look at methods to improve this reporting.