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J systems have:

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• console, browser, and Qt front ends
• interfaces with other programming languages and applications
• integrated graphics
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With the release of Free Style 1.0, I figure it's about time to write about Free Style - how it works, why you'd want to use it and little introduction to CSS-in-JS. This has been a long time coming, with my first commit to Free Style over a year ago, and the first commit to Free Style in its current form 10 months ago. This is not a blog post designed to sway decisions - as always, you should use your own fair judgement. 

This post shows how to import and export .xls or .xlsx (Excel files) in ASP.NET Core. And when thinking about dealing with excel with .NET, we always look for third-party libraries or component. And one of the most popular .net library that reads and writes Excel 2007/2010 files using the Open Office Xml format (xlsx) is EPPlus. However, at the time of writing this post, this library is not updated to support .NET Core. But there exists an unofficial version of this library EPPlus.Core which can do the job of import and export xlsx in ASP.NET Core. This works on Windows, Linux and Mac. 

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In August 2020, Google announced their 'Privacy Sandbox' initiative, which aims to preserve and protect user's privacy. The cookie processing change is part of this initiative. An official  blog post sheds some light on it.

Google will drop support for third-party cookies in the Chrome browser in two years. Also, the company will start limiting cross-site tracking by enforcing its new SameSite rules . This has already happened in Chrome 80.

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> ng new ASPNETCore2JwtAuthentication.AngularClient --routing

> npm install bootstrap --save

  "apps": [
    {
      "styles": [
    "../node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css",
        "styles.css"
      ],

>ng g c welcome
>ng g c PageNotFound

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent,
    WelcomeComponent,
    PageNotFoundComponent
  ],

import { PageNotFoundComponent } from './page-not-found/page-not-found.component';
import { WelcomeComponent } from './welcome/welcome.component';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { Routes, RouterModule } from '@angular/router';
const routes: Routes = [
  { path: 'welcome', component: WelcomeComponent },
  { path: '', redirectTo: 'welcome', pathMatch: 'full' },
  { path: '**', component: PageNotFoundComponent }
];
@NgModule({
  imports: [RouterModule.forRoot(routes)],
  exports: [RouterModule]
})
export class AppRoutingModule { }

>ng g m Authentication -m app.module --routing

  create src/app/authentication/authentication-routing.module.ts (257 bytes)
  create src/app/authentication/authentication.module.ts (311 bytes)
  update src/app/app.module.ts (696 bytes)

import { EmployeeRoutingModule } from './employee/employee-routing.module';
@NgModule({
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    AppRoutingModule,
    AuthenticationModule
  ]

import { EmployeeModule } from './employee/employee.module';
@NgModule({
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    AuthenticationModule,
    AppRoutingModule 
  ]

>ng g c Authentication/Login

  create src/app/Authentication/login/login.component.html (24 bytes)
  create src/app/Authentication/login/login.component.ts (265 bytes)
  create src/app/Authentication/login/login.component.css (0 bytes)
  update src/app/Authentication/authentication.module.ts (383 bytes)

import { LoginComponent } from "./login/login.component";

@NgModule({
  declarations: [LoginComponent]
})

import { LoginComponent } from "./login/login.component";

const routes: Routes = [
  { path: "login", component: LoginComponent }
];

import { NgModule, SkipSelf, Optional, } from "@angular/core";
import { CommonModule } from "@angular/common";
import { RouterModule } from "@angular/router";

// import RxJs needed operators only once
import "./services/rxjs-operators";

import { BrowserStorageService } from "./browser-storage.service";

@NgModule({
  imports: [CommonModule, RouterModule],
  exports: [
    // components that are used in app.component.ts will be listed here.
  ],
  declarations: [
    // components that are used in app.component.ts will be listed here.
  ],
  providers: [
    // global singleton services of the whole app will be listed here.
    BrowserStorageService
  ]
})
export class CoreModule {
  constructor( @Optional() @SkipSelf() core: CoreModule) {
    if (core) {
      throw new Error("CoreModule should be imported ONLY in AppModule.");
    }
  }
}

import { NgModule, ModuleWithProviders } from "@angular/core";
import { CommonModule } from "@angular/common";

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    CommonModule
  ],
  entryComponents: [
    // All components about to be loaded "dynamically" need to be declared in the entryComponents section.
  ],
  declarations: [
    // common and shared components/directives/pipes between more than one module and components will be listed here.
  ],
  exports: [
    // common and shared components/directives/pipes between more than one module and components will be listed here.
    CommonModule
  ]
  /* No providers here! Since they’ll be already provided in AppModule. */
})
export class SharedModule {
  static forRoot(): ModuleWithProviders {
    // Forcing the whole app to use the returned providers from the AppModule only.
    return {
      ngModule: SharedModule,
      providers: [ /* All of your services here. It will hold the services needed by `itself`. */]
    };
  }
}

import { FormsModule } from "@angular/forms";
import { HttpClientModule } from "@angular/common/http";

import { CoreModule } from "./core/core.module";
import { SharedModule } from "./shared/shared.module";

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    FormsModule,
    HttpClientModule,
    CoreModule,
    SharedModule.forRoot(),
    AuthenticationModule,
    AppRoutingModule
  ]
})
export class AppModule { }

> ng g c Header

  create src/app/header/header.component.html (25 bytes)
  create src/app/header/header.component.ts (269 bytes)
  create src/app/header/header.component.css (0 bytes)
  update src/app/app.module.ts (1069 bytes)

<nav>
  <div>
    <div>
      <a [routerLink]="['/']">{{title}}</a>
    </div>
    <ul>
      <li role="menuitem" routerLinkActive="active" [routerLinkActiveOptions]="{ exact: true }">
        <a [routerLink]="['/welcome']">Home</a>
      </li>
      <li role="menuitem" routerLinkActive="active">
        <a queryParamsHandling="merge" [routerLink]="['/login']">Login</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</nav>

export class HeaderComponent implements OnInit {
    title = "Angular.Jwt.Core";

<app-header></app-header>
<div>
  <router-outlet></router-outlet>
</div>

import { HeaderComponent } from "./component/header/header.component";

@NgModule({
  exports: [
    // components that are used in app.component.ts will be listed here.
    HeaderComponent
  ],
  declarations: [
    // components that are used in app.component.ts will be listed here.
    HeaderComponent
  ]
})
export class CoreModule {

Use HTTP Keep Alive - It is another hidden gem which resides in response header and helps in improving the performance of our web applications significantly.

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