1. Getting Started
2. Fundamental Techniques
3. Working with Data
4. Advanced Techniques 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.8.5:

• Debugger tooltip does not expand in Xamarin.iOS debugging session.
• Debugger won't let me leave execution point (Android).
• After updating to 15.8.1, data tip does not show when debugging.
• Debugger data tip does not expand [Editor].
• Exception:MSB0001: Internal MSBuild Error: Already registered for build-time.
• Wrong path to resource in manifest for ClickOnce after upgrading to VS 15.8.1.
• ClickOnce Manifest error in 15.8.
• ClickOnce Publish is missing certain references.
• ClickOnce: Language file copied to wrong location.
• Reference missing in the ClickOnce publish folder.
• Compiling non-.NET SDK style F# projects results in an internal MSBuild error unless MSBuild parallelism is set to 1.
• F# is not NGEN'd in Visual Studio.
• F# deploys the FSharp.Core 4.5.0.0 binary in the 4.4.3.0 location.

Details of What's New in 15.8.5

Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin

Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin now supports Xcode 10, which allows you to build and debug apps for iOS 12, tvOS 12, and watchOS 5. See how to get ready for iOS 12 and our introduction to iOS 12 for more details on the new features available. 

An Angular.js directive which allows you to perform any javascript actions (in the controller, or on the element) when an element is scrolled into or out of, the users viewport, without requiring any other dependencies.  Demo

It is common when working on a web application, comprised of a server-side Web API, running on a framework like ASP.NET or NestJS, and a client-side Single Page Application (SPA), running on a framework like Angular, to refer to the server-side as "the back-end" and to the client-side as "the front-end". I've been a culprit of this until recently.  

In .NET 8 we plan to add a new project template, Blazor Web Application, that covers all combinations of server-hosted projects (traditional Blazor Server apps, Blazor WebAssembly hosted, and the new unified architecture that allows use of Server, WebAssembly, and SSR in a single project). It will work by multitargeting over net8.0 and net8.0-browser. 

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity;

namespace BlazorServer.Entities
{
    public class ApplicationUser : IdentityUser
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
    }
}

public class ApplicationDbContext : IdentityDbContext<ApplicationUser>

namespace BlazorWasm.WebApi
{
    public class Startup
    {
        // ...

        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddIdentity<ApplicationUser, IdentityRole>()
                .AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>()
                .AddDefaultTokenProviders();
  
            // ...

dotnet tool update --global dotnet-ef --version 5.0.4
dotnet build
dotnet ef migrations --startup-project ../../BlazorWasm/BlazorWasm.WebApi/ add AddNameToAppUser --context ApplicationDbContext
dotnet ef --startup-project ../../BlazorWasm/BlazorWasm.WebApi/ database update --context ApplicationDbContext

using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace BlazorServer.Models
{
    public class UserRequestDTO
    {
        [Required(ErrorMessage = "Name is required")]
        public string Name { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessage = "Email is required")]
        [RegularExpression("^[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+$",
                ErrorMessage = "Invalid email address")]
        public string Email { get; set; }

        public string PhoneNo { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessage = "Password is required.")]
        [DataType(DataType.Password)]
        public string Password { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessage = "Confirm password is required")]
        [DataType(DataType.Password)]
        [Compare("Password", ErrorMessage = "Password and confirm password is not matched")]
        public string ConfirmPassword { get; set; }
    }
}

    public class RegistrationResponseDTO
    {
        public bool IsRegistrationSuccessful { get; set; }

        public IEnumerable<string> Errors { get; set; }
    }

using System;
using BlazorServer.Entities;
using BlazorServer.Models;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authorization;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Linq;
using BlazorServer.Common;

namespace BlazorWasm.WebApi.Controllers
{
    [Route("api/[controller]/[action]")]
    [ApiController]
    [Authorize]
    public class AccountController : ControllerBase
    {
        private readonly SignInManager<ApplicationUser> _signInManager;
        private readonly UserManager<ApplicationUser> _userManager;
        private readonly RoleManager<IdentityRole> _roleManager;

        public AccountController(SignInManager<ApplicationUser> signInManager,
            UserManager<ApplicationUser> userManager,
            RoleManager<IdentityRole> roleManager)
        {
            _roleManager = roleManager ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(roleManager));
            _userManager = userManager ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(userManager));
            _signInManager = signInManager ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(signInManager));
        }

        [HttpPost]
        [AllowAnonymous]
        public async Task<IActionResult> SignUp([FromBody] UserRequestDTO userRequestDTO)
        {
            var user = new ApplicationUser
            {
                UserName = userRequestDTO.Email,
                Email = userRequestDTO.Email,
                Name = userRequestDTO.Name,
                PhoneNumber = userRequestDTO.PhoneNo,
                EmailConfirmed = true
            };
            var result = await _userManager.CreateAsync(user, userRequestDTO.Password);
            if (!result.Succeeded)
            {
                var errors = result.Errors.Select(e => e.Description);
                return BadRequest(new RegistationResponseDTO { Errors = errors, IsRegistrationSuccessful = false });
            }

            var roleResult = await _userManager.AddToRoleAsync(user, ConstantRoles.Customer);
            if (!roleResult.Succeeded)
            {
                var errors = result.Errors.Select(e => e.Description);
                return BadRequest(new RegistationResponseDTO { Errors = errors, IsRegistrationSuccessful = false });
            }

            return StatusCode(201); // Created
        }
    }
}

[Route("api/[controller]/[action]")]
[ApiController]
[Authorize]

using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace BlazorServer.Models
{
    public class AuthenticationDTO
    {
        [Required(ErrorMessage = "UserName is required")]
        [RegularExpression("^[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+$",
            ErrorMessage = "Invalid email address")]
        public string UserName { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessage = "Password is required.")]
        [DataType(DataType.Password)]
        public string Password { get; set; }
    }
}

using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace BlazorServer.Models
{
    public class AuthenticationResponseDTO
    {
        public bool IsAuthSuccessful { get; set; }

        public string ErrorMessage { get; set; }

        public string Token { get; set; }

        public UserDTO UserDTO { get; set; }
    }

    public class UserDTO
    {
        public string Id { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public string Email { get; set; }
        public string PhoneNo { get; set; }
    }
}

namespace BlazorServer.Models
{
    public class BearerTokensOptions
    {
        public string Key { set; get; }

        public string Issuer { set; get; }

        public string Audience { set; get; }

        public int AccessTokenExpirationMinutes { set; get; }
    }
}

{
  "BearerTokens": {
    "Key": "This is my shared key, not so secret, secret!",
    "Issuer": "https://localhost:5001/",
    "Audience": "Any",
    "AccessTokenExpirationMinutes": 20
  }
}

namespace BlazorWasm.WebApi
{
    public class Startup
    {
        // ...

        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddOptions<BearerTokensOptions>().Bind(Configuration.GetSection("BearerTokens"));
            // ...

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt;
using System.Security.Claims;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using BlazorServer.Entities;
using BlazorServer.Models;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Options;
using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens;

namespace BlazorServer.Services
{

    public interface ITokenFactoryService
    {
        Task<string> CreateJwtTokensAsync(ApplicationUser user);
    }

    public class TokenFactoryService : ITokenFactoryService
    {
        private readonly UserManager<ApplicationUser> _userManager;
        private readonly BearerTokensOptions _configuration;

        public TokenFactoryService(
                UserManager<ApplicationUser> userManager,
                IOptionsSnapshot<BearerTokensOptions> bearerTokensOptions)
        {
            _userManager = userManager ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(userManager));
            if (bearerTokensOptions is null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(bearerTokensOptions));
            }
            _configuration = bearerTokensOptions.Value;
        }

        public async Task<string> CreateJwtTokensAsync(ApplicationUser user)
        {
            var signingCredentials = new SigningCredentials(
                new SymmetricSecurityKey(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(_configuration.Key)),
                SecurityAlgorithms.HmacSha256);
            var claims = await getClaimsAsync(user);
            var now = DateTime.UtcNow;
            var tokenOptions = new JwtSecurityToken(
                issuer: _configuration.Issuer,
                audience: _configuration.Audience,
                claims: claims,
                notBefore: now,
                expires: now.AddMinutes(_configuration.AccessTokenExpirationMinutes),
                signingCredentials: signingCredentials);
            return new JwtSecurityTokenHandler().WriteToken(tokenOptions);
        }

        private async Task<List<Claim>> getClaimsAsync(ApplicationUser user)
        {
            string issuer = _configuration.Issuer;
            var claims = new List<Claim>
            {
                // Issuer
                new Claim(JwtRegisteredClaimNames.Iss, issuer, ClaimValueTypes.String, issuer),
                // Issued at
                new Claim(JwtRegisteredClaimNames.Iat, DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeSeconds().ToString(), ClaimValueTypes.Integer64, issuer),
                new Claim(ClaimTypes.Name, user.Email, ClaimValueTypes.String, issuer),
                new Claim(ClaimTypes.Email, user.Email, ClaimValueTypes.String, issuer),
                new Claim("Id", user.Id, ClaimValueTypes.String, issuer),
                new Claim("DisplayName", user.Name, ClaimValueTypes.String, issuer),
            };

            var roles = await _userManager.GetRolesAsync(user);
            foreach (var role in roles)
            {
                claims.Add(new Claim(ClaimTypes.Role, role, ClaimValueTypes.String, issuer));
            }
            return claims;
        }
    }
}

namespace BlazorWasm.WebApi
{
    public class Startup
    {
        // ...

        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddScoped<ITokenFactoryService, TokenFactoryService>();
            // ...

namespace BlazorWasm.WebApi.Controllers
{
    [Route("api/[controller]/[action]")]
    [ApiController]
    [Authorize]
    public class AccountController : ControllerBase
    {
        private readonly SignInManager<ApplicationUser> _signInManager;
        private readonly UserManager<ApplicationUser> _userManager;
        private readonly ITokenFactoryService _tokenFactoryService;

        public AccountController(
            SignInManager<ApplicationUser> signInManager,
            UserManager<ApplicationUser> userManager,
            ITokenFactoryService tokenFactoryService)
        {
            _userManager = userManager ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(userManager));
            _signInManager = signInManager ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(signInManager));
            _tokenFactoryService = tokenFactoryService;
        }

        [HttpPost]
        [AllowAnonymous]
        public async Task<IActionResult> SignIn([FromBody] AuthenticationDTO authenticationDTO)
        {
            var result = await _signInManager.PasswordSignInAsync(
                    authenticationDTO.UserName, authenticationDTO.Password,
                    isPersistent: false, lockoutOnFailure: false);
            if (!result.Succeeded)
            {
                return Unauthorized(new AuthenticationResponseDTO
                {
                    IsAuthSuccessful = false,
                    ErrorMessage = "Invalid Authentication"
                });
            }

            var user = await _userManager.FindByNameAsync(authenticationDTO.UserName);
            if (user == null)
            {
                return Unauthorized(new AuthenticationResponseDTO
                {
                    IsAuthSuccessful = false,
                    ErrorMessage = "Invalid Authentication"
                });
            }

            var token = await _tokenFactoryService.CreateJwtTokensAsync(user);
            return Ok(new AuthenticationResponseDTO
            {
                IsAuthSuccessful = true,
                Token = token,
                UserDTO = new UserDTO
                {
                    Name = user.Name,
                    Id = user.Id,
                    Email = user.Email,
                    PhoneNo = user.PhoneNumber
                }
            });
        }
    }
}

{
  "iss": "https://localhost:5001/",
  "iat": 1616396383,
  "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/name": "vahid@dntips.ir",
  "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress": "vahid@dntips.ir",
  "Id": "582855fb-e95b-45ab-b349-5e9f7de40c0c",
  "DisplayName": "vahid@dntips.ir",
  "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2008/06/identity/claims/role": "Admin",
  "nbf": 1616396383,
  "exp": 1616397583,
  "aud": "Any"
}

namespace BlazorWasm.WebApi
{
    public class Startup
    {
        // ...

        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            var bearerTokensSection = Configuration.GetSection("BearerTokens");
            services.AddOptions<BearerTokensOptions>().Bind(bearerTokensSection);
            // ...

            var apiSettings = bearerTokensSection.Get<BearerTokensOptions>();
            var key = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(apiSettings.Key);
            services.AddAuthentication(opt =>
            {
                opt.DefaultAuthenticateScheme = JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme;
                opt.DefaultChallengeScheme = JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme;
                opt.DefaultScheme = JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme;
            })
            .AddJwtBearer(cfg =>
            {
                cfg.RequireHttpsMetadata = false;
                cfg.SaveToken = true;
                cfg.TokenValidationParameters = new TokenValidationParameters
                {
                    ValidateIssuerSigningKey = true,
                    IssuerSigningKey = new SymmetricSecurityKey(key),
                    ValidateAudience = true,
                    ValidateIssuer = true,
                    ValidAudience = apiSettings.Audience,
                    ValidIssuer = apiSettings.Issuer,
                    ClockSkew = TimeSpan.Zero,
                    ValidateLifetime = true
                };
            });

            // ...

namespace BlazorWasm.WebApi
{
    public class Startup
    {
        // ...

        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            // ...

            services.AddSwaggerGen(c =>
            {
                c.SwaggerDoc("v1", new OpenApiInfo { Title = "BlazorWasm.WebApi", Version = "v1" });
                c.AddSecurityDefinition("Bearer", new OpenApiSecurityScheme
                {
                    In = ParameterLocation.Header,
                    Description = "Please enter the token in the field",
                    Name = "Authorization",
                    Type = SecuritySchemeType.ApiKey
                });
                c.AddSecurityRequirement(new OpenApiSecurityRequirement {
                    {
                        new OpenApiSecurityScheme
                        {
                            Reference = new OpenApiReference
                            {
                                Type = ReferenceType.SecurityScheme,
                                Id = "Bearer"
                            }
                        },
                        new string[] { }
                    }
                });
            });
        }

        // ...

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