Microsoft.Owin, a.k.a. Katana, provides a number of very useful abstractions for working with OWIN. These types are optional but greatly ease the construction of applications and middleware, especially security middleware. The Katana team did a great job of ensuring their implementations work well with Microsoft.Owin as well as the standard OWIN MidFunc described below. However, […]

While I was visiting Boston earlier in the year I had the misfortune of kicking myself in the teeth with reflection. It’s something all programmers inevitably go through with reflection API’s as they are inherently untyped, a simple typo can leave you tearing out your hair or punching through your monitor! Yeah there’s things the horizon that will help namely the nameof expression in C#6 which should help in some areas, that’s if your willing to pay the price of using C#, but I wont go into that her[...]

Winter is upon us, but so is an exciting part of the year when lots of good tech conferences are happening all over the place!   CodeMesh was awesome We had a great time at CodeMesh again this year, and enjoyed some amazing sessions from some of the best people in the industry. Don’t worry [...]

A new Visual Studio template has been added to the latest Visual Studio installer called "Self-Hosted Client-Server Application," and you can use this template to build OWIN-based self-hosted applications that can be deployed via an .exe file and without requiring an installed web container (IIS, etc.) on the serving machine.