asp.net-core-mvc

I am setting up my first .NET Core application. I am going to user Dapper (1.50.0-rc2) for the ORM. I have added the following to my appsettings.json file. "Data": { "DefaultConnection": { "ConnectionString": "user id=exampleusername;password=examplepassword;Data Source=db.example.com;Database=exampledb;" } }, I am confused at how to get the value of ConnectionString . As .NET Core is so new, online examples are all over the place and none seem to actually cover this. I have a sample Console App for .NET core on my GitHub repository Setup phase var builder = new ConfigurationBuilder()

I found this link: How to get the current logged in user Id ASP.NET Core But the answers are all OUTDATED! And this SO post can not neither be a solution, its just a boilerplate workaround: How should I access my ApplicationUser properties from within my MVC 6 Views? In the mvc action: base.User is not of type ApplicationUser neither is base.User.Identity. Both can not be casted into ApplicationUser. So how can I access my custom properties put inside the applicationuser object when logged in? For the controller, have a dependency on UserManager<ApplicationUser> . Then, you can access the

In MVC5 there is @Ajax.ActionLink that is useful to update just a partial view instead of reloading the whole View. Apparently in MVC6 is not supported anymore. I have tried using @Html.ActionLink like the following but it doesn't update the form, it return just the partial view: View: @Html.ActionLink("Update", "GetEnvironment", "Environments", new { id = Model.Id }, new { data_ajax = "true", data_ajax_method = "GET", data_ajax_mode = "replace", data_ajax_update = "environment-container", @class = "btn btn-danger" }) control: public async Task<ActionResult> GetEnvironment(int? id) { var

In the older MVC HTML Helpers, one could use IDisposable to wrap content - for example the BeginForm helper would automatically wrap *stuff* with a closing form tag <% using (Html.BeginForm()) {%> *stuff* <% } %> Is this wrapping of content supported with MVC6 TagHelpers? For example I would like this <widget-box title="My Title">Yay for content!</widget-box> to be expanded into a bootstrap widget-box with wrapping divs: <div class="widget-box"> <div class="widget-header"> <h4 class="widget-title">My Title</h4> </div> <div class="widget-body"> <div class="widget-main"> Yay for content! </div>

I am incorporating TagHelpers in my MVC vNext project, and I realized they don't work when I self close the HTML tags. @addTagHelper "*, Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.TagHelpers" <label asp-for="FirstName"/> <!-- self closing tag --> <span asp-validation-for="FirstName"/> <!-- self closing tag --> And, insteand when I put the closing tags, I see the values being displayed. <label asp-for="FirstName"></label> <span asp-validation-for="FirstName"></span> Generated HTML <label for="FirstName">FirstName</label> <span class="field-validation-error" data-valmsg-for="FirstName" data-valmsg-replace="true">