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Christos Matskas

A C# Encryption provider for Azure Websites

Azure.Security, my second OSS project has been released! 1. What is Azure.Security? Azure.Security is an Azure specific piece of software designed to provide cryptographic services to an application deployed to Azure Websites platform. One of the issues that you may come across when using this platform is

Entity Framework

Generic Repository with Entity Framework

My first NuGet package and OSS project is live :) What an exciting day! Lots of new releases announced in the last couple of days so why not add to the funfair and release my own OSS? This is a piece of code that I had to develop for a client

Updating an MVC Partial View with Ajax

Partial views in ASP.NET MVC are great. They allow you to update only a part of the DOM without having to perform a full page refresh or a postback. Surely, there are many ways to achieve this, such as ajax and WebAPI, however, partial views have one major benefit

My thoughts on TechEd 2014 announcements

Are you following this? Are you watching the videos? I think Channel9, the official Microsoft media outlet, died from overwhelming demand. The cynics may say that this is because of technical issues, however, I say that this is due to a highly demanding audience :). If you have been unable to

Entity Framework

Working with DbGeography, Points and Polygons in .NET

One very handy feature of the System.Data.Spatial namespace is the DbGeography class that allows you to work with either points on a "map" or shapes/polygons. To create a DbGeography point object you need to know the latitude and longitude of that point. There are many

The right way to implement password hashing using PBKDF2 and C#

Following from my previous post about hashing using BCrypt and in response to some comments I received on Google+, I decide to provide an alternative hashing implementation using PBKDF2. As you will notice, the implementation is somewhat bigger than the one provided for BCrypt but in effect, both code segments

A simple .NET password hashing implementation using BCrypt

By now, you've heard many many stories about compromised sites and how millions of emails and clear-text passwords have made it to the hands of "not so good" people. If you are a developer and you need to create some kind of authentication for your clients/software/site/