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• Improved Universal & AppShell Support in the CLI
• Improved decorator error messages
• TypeScript 2.5 support 

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ASP.NET Core 1.0 (formerly ASP.NET 5) provides a revamped Web development framework geared towards the requirements of modern Web applications. The new framework, currently in RC1, requires you to learn many new concepts not found in ASP.NET MVC 5. To that end, this article enumerates a few important features that ASP.NET MVC 5 developers should know as they prepare to learn this new framework. 

 > npm install -g tslint typescript

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;

namespace AngularTemplateDrivenFormsLab.Controllers
{
    [Route("api/[controller]")]
    public class ShowImagesController : Controller
    {
        [HttpGet("[action]")]
        public IActionResult GetImage()
        {
            return File("~/assets/resume.png", "image/png");
        }
    }
}

import { Injectable } from "@angular/core";
import { Observable } from "rxjs/Observable";
import { HttpClient } from "@angular/common/http";

@Injectable()
export class DownloadBinaryDataService {

  constructor(private httpClient: HttpClient) { }

  public getImage(): Observable<Blob> {
    return this.httpClient.get("/api/ShowImages/GetImage", { responseType: "blob" });
  }
}

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

function getWindow(): any {
  return window;
}

@Injectable()
export class WindowRefService {
  get nativeWindow(): any {
    return getWindow();
  }
}

import { WindowRefService } from "./window.service";

@NgModule({
  providers: [
    WindowRefService
  ]
})
export class CoreModule {}

const urlCreator = this.nativeWindow.URL;
imageBlobUrl = urlCreator.createObjectURL(imageDataBlob);

<img src="blob:http://localhost:5000/9d4bae44-00bc-4ed8-9f27-cac2de5ecd5d">

 img-src 'self' data: blob:

import { WindowRefService } from "./../../core/window.service";
import { DownloadBinaryDataService } from "app/angular-http-client-blob/download-binary-data.service";
import { Component, OnInit, ViewChild, ElementRef } from "@angular/core";
import { DomSanitizer, SafeUrl } from "@angular/platform-browser";

@Component({
  templateUrl: "./download-blobs.component.html",
  styleUrls: ["./download-blobs.component.css"]
})
export class DownloadBlobsComponent implements OnInit {

  @ViewChild("sampleImage1") sampleImage1: ElementRef;
  private nativeWindow: Window;
  imageBlobUrl: string;
  sanitizedImageBlobUrl: SafeUrl;

  constructor(private downloadService: DownloadBinaryDataService,
    private windowRefService: WindowRefService, private sanitizer: DomSanitizer) { }

  ngOnInit() {
    this.nativeWindow = this.windowRefService.nativeWindow;
    this.downloadService.getImage().subscribe(imageDataBlob => {
      const urlCreator = this.nativeWindow.URL;
      this.imageBlobUrl = urlCreator.createObjectURL(imageDataBlob); // doesn't work -> <img [src]="imageBlobUrl">
      this.sampleImage1.nativeElement.src = this.imageBlobUrl; // works -> <img #sampleImage1>
      this.sanitizedImageBlobUrl = this.sanitizer.bypassSecurityTrustUrl(this.imageBlobUrl); // works -> <img [src]="sanitizedImageBlobUrl">
    });
  }
}

<h1>Angular HttpClient Blob</h1>

<h4>#sampleImage1</h4>
<img #sampleImage1>

<h4>imageBlobUrl</h4>
<img [src]="imageBlobUrl">

<h4>sanitizedImageBlobUrl</h4>
<img [src]="sanitizedImageBlobUrl">

this.imageBlobUrl = urlCreator.createObjectURL(imageDataBlob); // doesn't work -> <img [src]="imageBlobUrl">

<h4>imageBlobUrl</h4>
<img [src]="imageBlobUrl">

<img _ngcontent-c1="" src="unsafe:blob:http://localhost:5000/a4505339-5da2-4303-949c-8e6a7cfff2fc">

Refused to load the image 'unsafe:blob:http://localhost:5000/a4505339-5da2-4303-949c-8e6a7cfff2fc' 
because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "img-src 'self' data: blob:".

this.sanitizedImageBlobUrl = this.sanitizer.bypassSecurityTrustUrl(this.imageBlobUrl); // works -> <img [src]="sanitizedImageBlobUrl">

<img [src]="sanitizedImageBlobUrl">

<img _ngcontent-c1="" src="blob:http://localhost:5000/a4505339-5da2-4303-949c-8e6a7cfff2fc">

<img #sampleImage1>

@ViewChild("sampleImage1") sampleImage1: ElementRef;

this.sampleImage1.nativeElement.src = this.imageBlobUrl; // works -> <img #sampleImage1>

<ng-component _nghost-c1=""><h1 _ngcontent-c1="">Angular HttpClient Blob</h1>

<h4 _ngcontent-c1="">#sampleImage1</h4>
<img _ngcontent-c1="" src="blob:http://localhost:5000/a4505339-5da2-4303-949c-8e6a7cfff2fc">

<h4 _ngcontent-c1="">imageBlobUrl</h4>
<img _ngcontent-c1="" src="unsafe:blob:http://localhost:5000/a4505339-5da2-4303-949c-8e6a7cfff2fc">

<h4 _ngcontent-c1="">sanitizedImageBlobUrl</h4>
<img _ngcontent-c1="" src="blob:http://localhost:5000/a4505339-5da2-4303-949c-8e6a7cfff2fc">
</ng-component>

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