My NLog – OWIN Adapter went “official”

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You might remember I published a Nuget package to help integrate NLog with OWIN back in December 2014. And it worked great so far! A few weeks ago I got a notification from Github that my name was mentioned in some issue. Long story short, the main NLog maintainer and I decided to move Pysco68.Owin.Logging.NLogAdapter over to the NLog organization to give it a bit more visibility.

So there we go; from today on, you should use NLog.Owin.Logging to get OWIN and NLog together. Oh, and there’s a new Nuget package too: NLog.Owin.Logging@Nuget.

The usage remains the same:

Fixing bugs in MySQL Connector/NET – or how to make code first migrations work

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Hello folks – just a quick post!

I finally found the time to publish a workaround I wrote back in May this year. I was hacking a fully automatic irrigation system (garden stuff you know ^^) and because I had to do that really quickly (before leaving for vacation) I decided go the route of a known framework: OWIN, ASP.NET WebAPI 2, NOWIN (as a host), Identity 2.0, EntityFramework, MariaDB, a good HTML5 stack… etc…

Well mostly a known framework; I had to run on a Raspberry and Microsoft wasn’t quite as ready with Windows 10 IoT as I’d needed it… So it was a quick decision to stick with Raspbian and Mono. Which by the way work out great. At the time of writing my little application has over 140 days of uptime! – Yay –

I’ll probably write more about the whole project in the next months!

Anyhow I faced the problem that the MySQL Connector/NET is *still* (I posted the bug on November 7th 2014 – Bug Ticket: #74726 EF migrations fail on long foreign keys) having issues with code first migrations, long entity names and foreign keys… and as I really lost any confidence that ****** is going to fix that any-time soon I decided to do it on my own…

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Mixed authentication – NTLM with ASP.NET Identity

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Tl;dr: You can use NTLM authentication without relying on IIS or HttpListener in OWIN projects by using my OWIN autentication middleware: more information on my Github project: Pysco68.Owin.Authentication.Ntlm middleware. It’s working flawlessly with ASP.NET Identity 2.0! And there’s a Nuget package too!

As you may have noticed, I’m relatively busy these days with things like OWIN and surrounding technologies. All there shiny and new things that just fit together so well. And then you have customers just requiring plain old things like NTLM for their latest shiny intranet application.

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How-to: Hawk authentication scheme with SignalR

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On a recent machine-to-machine communication scenario I needed to enable secure push messages. The server side of the project was plain ASP.NET Web API 2 (on OWIN – I just love it) so dropping in SignalR and a few hubs was done in minutes. The tricky part was that I was using the Hawk authentication scheme to secure the access (and I was very happy on how it worked out so far). So no reason to change anything about the global setup if it wasn’t for the .NET SignalR client library not supporting Hawk out-of-the-box.

But luckily SignalR sources can be crawled through easily over at github (https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR). And even more luckily I found that it would be no more that a few lines to wire it up with Thinktecture’s Hawk implementation (Thinktecture.IdentityModel.Hawk on Nuget).

So there you go, my latest, greatest Nuget packages is: Pysco68.SignalR.HawkHandler.

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