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Not well known practice and not well documented but quite powerful: it is possible to override the base class of the views and pages in order to share a same logic or just to simplify some calls within views.

Few tools from the ASP.NET Core framework may be quite useful, but you should use the proper way to access them. This way is not always obvious, and knowing about it makes all the difference.This post explains how to allow injection of HttpContext and ActionContext in another injected class.

Since the ASP.NET Core 2.1 release, it became finally easy to implement independent web libraries embedding everything it needs to set up a feature.This post is the first of a serie, that intends to explain how to set an ASP.NET Core razor MVC library to be used as an independent plugin.Such a lib is autonomous, can be packaged in a NuGet and activated just by refencing this project.

This article explains how to preload some assemblies for a .Net project and provides all the code required to replicate the behavior.

Razor libraries are a great improvement for splitting the development of ASP.NET Core projects into projects, however it still lacks (v2.1) the possibility to easily include static files in libraries, such as images, CSS or javascript files, fonts or web libraries. This posts explains the principle allowing to include static files in a Razor Library for folders of type /wwwroot or /Areas/Feature/wwwroot

This is a short introduction article to this blog

This article explains a way to enable CORS requests for a single endpoint in ASP.NET Core, without using the official middleware. It has been made to add flexibility to the way CORS is handled.

In a previous post, we have seen [how to manually include static files in a razor library](https://dotnetstories.com/blog/How-to-Include-static-files-in-a-Razor-library-en-7156675136), this post will go even further and provide a way to do this automatically. In this article you will learn how to discover libraries that embed static files and include them automatically to serve them with the static file middleware.