Structured data in earlier versions of ASP.NET meant creating and registering custom types and configuration sections for our applications. In ASP.NET Core and in Core MVC, structured configuration is a breeze with support for JSON documents as the storage mechanism and the ability to flatten hierarchies into highly portable keys.

Syncfusion Essential PDF now supports HTML to PDF conversion by using the WebKit rendering engine in addition to the existing Internet Explorer and Gecko renderers. 

a habit tracker app that is free to use on 6 platforms: Web browser, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS and macOS. Approximately 98% of the programming code is the same for all 6 platforms. There are 3 different projects that use the shared code: - a Blazor WASM project for the PWA - a MAUI Blazor project for Windows, Android, iOS and macOS - a Photino Blazor project for Linux 

import { InjectionToken } from "@angular/core";

export let APP_CONFIG = new InjectionToken<string>("app.config");

export interface IAppConfig {
  apiEndpoint: string;
  loginPath: string;
  logoutPath: string;
  refreshTokenPath: string;
  accessTokenObjectKey: string;
  refreshTokenObjectKey: string;
}

export const AppConfig: IAppConfig = {
  apiEndpoint: "http://localhost:5000/api",
  loginPath: "account/login",
  logoutPath: "account/logout",
  refreshTokenPath: "account/RefreshToken",
  accessTokenObjectKey: "access_token",
  refreshTokenObjectKey: "refresh_token"
};

import { AppConfig, APP_CONFIG } from "./app.config";

@NgModule({
  providers: [
    { provide: APP_CONFIG, useValue: AppConfig }
  ]
})
export class CoreModule {}

 ng g s Core/services/Auth

   create src/app/Core/services/auth.service.ts (110 bytes)

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

@NgModule({
  providers: [
    // global singleton services of the whole app will be listed here.
    BrowserStorageService,
    AuthService,
    { provide: APP_CONFIG, useValue: AppConfig }
  ]
})
export class CoreModule {}

import { BehaviorSubject } from "rxjs/BehaviorSubject";

@Injectable()
export class AuthService {

  private authStatusSource = new BehaviorSubject<boolean>(false);
  authStatus$ = this.authStatusSource.asObservable();

  constructor() {
    this.updateStatusOnPageRefresh();
  }

  private updateStatusOnPageRefresh(): void {
    this.authStatusSource.next(this.isLoggedIn());
  }

export enum AuthTokenType {
   AccessToken,
   RefreshToken
}

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

export enum AuthTokenType {
  AccessToken,
  RefreshToken
}

@Injectable()
export class AuthService {

  private rememberMeToken = "rememberMe_token";

  constructor(private browserStorageService: BrowserStorageService) {  }

  rememberMe(): boolean {
    return this.browserStorageService.getLocal(this.rememberMeToken) === true;
  }

  getRawAuthToken(tokenType: AuthTokenType): string {
    if (this.rememberMe()) {
      return this.browserStorageService.getLocal(AuthTokenType[tokenType]);
    } else {
      return this.browserStorageService.getSession(AuthTokenType[tokenType]);
    }
  }

  deleteAuthTokens() {
    if (this.rememberMe()) {
      this.browserStorageService.removeLocal(AuthTokenType[AuthTokenType.AccessToken]);
      this.browserStorageService.removeLocal(AuthTokenType[AuthTokenType.RefreshToken]);
    } else {
      this.browserStorageService.removeSession(AuthTokenType[AuthTokenType.AccessToken]);
      this.browserStorageService.removeSession(AuthTokenType[AuthTokenType.RefreshToken]);
    }
    this.browserStorageService.removeLocal(this.rememberMeToken);
  }

  private setLoginSession(response: any): void {
    this.setToken(AuthTokenType.AccessToken, response[this.appConfig.accessTokenObjectKey]);
    this.setToken(AuthTokenType.RefreshToken, response[this.appConfig.refreshTokenObjectKey]);
  }

  private setToken(tokenType: AuthTokenType, tokenValue: string): void {
    if (this.rememberMe()) {
      this.browserStorageService.setLocal(AuthTokenType[tokenType], tokenValue);
    } else {
      this.browserStorageService.setSession(AuthTokenType[tokenType], tokenValue);
    }
  }
}

 {"access_token":"...","refresh_token":"..."}

export interface Credentials {
   username: string;
   password: string;
   rememberMe: boolean;
}

@Injectable()
export class AuthService {
  constructor(
    @Inject(APP_CONFIG) private appConfig: IAppConfig,
    private http: HttpClient,
    private browserStorageService: BrowserStorageService   
  ) {
    this.updateStatusOnPageRefresh();
  }

  login(credentials: Credentials): Observable<boolean> {
    const headers = new HttpHeaders({ "Content-Type": "application/json" });
    return this.http
      .post(`${this.appConfig.apiEndpoint}/${this.appConfig.loginPath}`, credentials, { headers: headers })
      .map((response: any) => {
        this.browserStorageService.setLocal(this.rememberMeToken, credentials.rememberMe);
        if (!response) {
          this.authStatusSource.next(false);
          return false;
        }
        this.setLoginSession(response);
        this.authStatusSource.next(true);
        return true;
      })
      .catch((error: HttpErrorResponse) => Observable.throw(error));
  }
}

@Injectable()
export class AuthService {

  constructor(
    @Inject(APP_CONFIG) private appConfig: IAppConfig,
    private http: HttpClient,
    private router: Router
  ) {
    this.updateStatusOnPageRefresh();
  }

  logout(navigateToHome: boolean): void {
    this.http
      .get(`${this.appConfig.apiEndpoint}/${this.appConfig.logoutPath}`)
      .finally(() => {
        this.deleteAuthTokens();
        this.unscheduleRefreshToken();
        this.authStatusSource.next(false);
        if (navigateToHome) {
          this.router.navigate(["/"]);
        }
      })
      .map(response => response || {})
      .catch((error: HttpErrorResponse) => Observable.throw(error))
      .subscribe(result => {
        console.log("logout", result);
      });
  }
}

 > npm install jwt-decode --save

 import * as jwt_decode from "jwt-decode";

  getDecodedAccessToken(): any {
    return jwt_decode(this.getRawAuthToken(AuthTokenType.AccessToken));
  }

{
  "jti": "d1272eb5-1061-45bd-9209-3ccbc6ddcf0a",
  "iss": "http://localhost/",
  "iat": 1513070340,
  "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/nameidentifier": "1",
  "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/name": "Vahid",
  "DisplayName": "وحید",
  "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2008/06/identity/claims/serialnumber": "709b64868a1d4d108ee58369f5c3c1f3",
  "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2008/06/identity/claims/userdata": "1",
  "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2008/06/identity/claims/role": [
    "Admin",
    "User"
  ],
  "nbf": 1513070340,
  "exp": 1513070460,
  "aud": "Any"
}

  getDisplayName(): string {
    return this.getDecodedAccessToken().DisplayName;
  }

  getAccessTokenExpirationDateUtc(): Date {
    const decoded = this.getDecodedAccessToken();
    if (decoded.exp === undefined) {
      return null;
    }
    const date = new Date(0); // The 0 sets the date to the epoch
    date.setUTCSeconds(decoded.exp);
    return date;
  }

  isAccessTokenTokenExpired(): boolean {
    const expirationDateUtc = this.getAccessTokenExpirationDateUtc();
    if (!expirationDateUtc) {
      return true;
    }
    return !(expirationDateUtc.valueOf() > new Date().valueOf());
  }

  isLoggedIn(): boolean {
    const accessToken = this.getRawAuthToken(AuthTokenType.AccessToken);
    const refreshToken = this.getRawAuthToken(AuthTokenType.RefreshToken);
    const hasTokens = !this.isEmptyString(accessToken) && !this.isEmptyString(refreshToken);
    return hasTokens && !this.isAccessTokenTokenExpired();
  }

  private isEmptyString(value: string): boolean {
    return !value || 0 === value.length;
  }

Welcome to .NET 8! The first preview is ready for you to download: claim your copy of the first .NET 8 preview and start building applications today. Scroll down to see the list of features included in this preview. .NET 8 is a long-term support (LTS) release. This blog post covers the major themes and goals that drive the prioritization and selection of enhancements to develop. .NET 8 preview and release candidate builds will be delivered monthly. As usual, the final release will be delivered sometime in November at .NET Conf. 

Along with NativeScript 3.4 we also released a new version of the nativescript-angular plugin with official support for Angular 5. The update includes support for Angular’s new AnimationBuilder APIs, as well as some iOS-specific startup time improvements. You can learn more about these changes in the nativescript-angular changelog. 

WhatsApp for Windows Phone is one of the few apps on Windows 10 Mobile today that continues to receive frequent updates from its developer. Unfortunately, the app itself is one based on Silverlight, which is what apps built for Windows Phone 8.1 used back in 2014. This means the app isn't a Universal Windows Platform app (UWP,) and as such doesn't run across all the different Windows 10 platforms and devices available today.