.NET 8 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is now available and includes many great new improvements to ASP.NET Core!

This is the last release candidate that we plan to share before the final .NET 8 release later this year. Most of the planned features and changes for .NET 8 are part of this release candidate and are ready for you to try out. You can find the full list of what’s new in ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 in the docs. 

Learn how to send POST, PUT, and DELETE requests using HttpClient in ASP.NET Core. We are going to show you both examples for each request with shortcut methods (PostAsync, PutAsync, DeleteAsync) and with the HttpRequestMessage class. 

In this article I’ll teach you how to use CSS Grid to create a super cool image grid which varies the amount of columns with the width of the screen. 

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RethinkDB is an open source NoSQL JSON database designed for web apps. Its main differentiator is that you can tell it to continuously push updated query results to applications in real time, rather than having your app poll for changes. 

we will look at some of the approaches that you can take to make optimized and better performing ASP.NET web sites. Some of these principles can also be applied to websites created in a technology other than ASP.NET.

@Directive({
  selector: "[isVisibleForAuthUser]"
})
export class IsVisibleForAuthUserDirective implements OnInit, OnDestroy {
  constructor(private elem: ElementRef, private authService: AuthService) { }

@Directive({
selector: "[hasAuthUserViewPermission]"
})
export class HasAuthUserViewPermissionDirective implements OnInit, OnDestroy {

  constructor(
  private templateRef: TemplateRef<any>,
  private viewContainer: ViewContainerRef,
  private authService: AuthService
) { }

<div *hasAuthUserViewPermission="['Admin','User']">
    *hasAuthUserViewPermission="['Admin','User']"
</div>

 this.viewContainer.createEmbeddedView(this.templateRef);

 this.viewContainer.clear();

import { Directive, Input, OnDestroy, OnInit, TemplateRef, ViewContainerRef } from "@angular/core";
import { Subscription } from "rxjs/Subscription";

import { AuthService } from "./../../core/services/auth.service";

@Directive({
  selector: "[hasAuthUserViewPermission]"
})
export class HasAuthUserViewPermissionDirective implements OnInit, OnDestroy {
  private isVisible = false;
  private requiredRoles: string[] | null = null;
  private subscription: Subscription | null = null;

  @Input()
  set hasAuthUserViewPermission(roles: string[] | null) {
    this.requiredRoles = roles;
  }

  // Note, if you don't place the * in front, you won't be able to inject the TemplateRef<any> or ViewContainerRef into your directive.
  constructor(
    private templateRef: TemplateRef<any>,
    private viewContainer: ViewContainerRef,
    private authService: AuthService
  ) { }

  ngOnInit() {
    this.subscription = this.authService.authStatus$.subscribe(status => this.changeVisibility(status));
    this.changeVisibility(this.authService.isAuthUserLoggedIn());
  }

  ngOnDestroy(): void {
    if (this.subscription) {
      this.subscription.unsubscribe();
    }
  }

  private changeVisibility(status: boolean) {
    const isInRoles = !this.requiredRoles ? true : this.authService.isAuthUserInRoles(this.requiredRoles);
    if (isInRoles && status) {
      if (!this.isVisible) {
        this.viewContainer.createEmbeddedView(this.templateRef);
        this.isVisible = true;
      }
    } else {
      this.isVisible = false;
      this.viewContainer.clear();
    }
  }
}

import { HasAuthUserViewPermissionDirective } from "./directives/has-auth-user-view-permission.directive";

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    HasAuthUserViewPermissionDirective
  ],
  exports: [
    HasAuthUserViewPermissionDirective
  ]
})
export class SharedModule {}

import { SharedModule } from "../shared/shared.module";
@NgModule({
  imports: [
    SharedModule
  ]
})
export class DashboardModule { }

<div *hasAuthUserViewPermission="">
    *hasAuthUserViewPermission=""
</div>

<div *hasAuthUserViewPermission="['Admin','User']">
    *hasAuthUserViewPermission="['Admin','User']"
</div>