asp.net-core-mvc

I have trouble creating a simple mock mail sender within an ASP NET 5 project. Here the method : public static Task SendMail(string Email, string Subject, string Body) { SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient(); client.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.SpecifiedPickupDirectory; client.PickupDirectoryLocation = "C:\\TMP"; MailAddress from = new MailAddress("jane@contoso.com", "Jane " + (char)0xD8 + " Clayton", System.Text.Encoding.UTF8); MailAddress to = new MailAddress(Email); MailMessage message = new MailMessage(from, to); message.Body = Body; message.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;

I was reading Scott Gu's blog on ASP.NET 5.0 features and one of the new feature mentioned in the blog is to use json file as configuration and elimination of Web.config file. I have few questions around that feature. Assume I have following log4net configuration which was previously added to Web.Config in previous version of ASP.NET Config file <section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" /> <log4net debug="true"> <appender name="RollingLogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender"> <file value="C:\\TestProj\\TestLog.txt" />

I have deployed a ASP.NET MVC 6 website to Azure from Git. Details of the deployment can be found in this blog post but basically I use DNU to publish it and then kudu to push it to an Azure website. Using IHostingEnvironment I get the ApplicationBasePath. The problem is that the paths I get back are very different on localhost and on Azure. Azure: "D:\home\site\approot\src\src" Localhost: "C:\Users\deebo\Source\mysite\site\src" I want to use the base path to get the full path to a folder containing some images: wwwroot/img/gallery/ I got around this with the following code: var rootPath =

I am testing my first .net Core WebAPI with Postman unknown media type error is occurring. What am I missing? This is my posting object public class Country { [Key] public int CountryID { get; set; } public string CountryName { get; set; } public string CountryShortName { get; set; } public string Description { get; set; } } This is the webapi controller [HttpPost] public async Task<IActionResult> PostCountry([FromBody] Country country) { if (!ModelState.IsValid) { return BadRequest(ModelState); } _context.Country.Add(country); try { await _context.SaveChangesAsync(); } catch

As part of an ASP.NET Core MVC 1.0 project, I have a ViewModel with an ICollection<> property. I need to validate that this collection contains one or more items. My custom validation attribute doesn't get executed. In my instance it holds multiple file attachments from a multipart/form-data form. I have decorated the property in the ViewModel with a custom validation attribute: [RequiredCollection] public ICollection<IFormFile> Attachments { get; set; } Below is the custom attribute class. It simply checks the collection is not null and has greater than zero elements: public class