General purpose support library for ASP.NET Core. ### MVC Functionality * **BaseController and BaseViewModel implementation** A common base controller class that adds support for an auto-initialized BaseViewModel from which other VMs can inherit. Allows for automatic initialization of common features like ErrorDisplay and Base View models. * **ViewRenderer** Render view output to a string using a controller context. * **AppUser ClaimsPrincipal and Cookie Authentication Helper** A `AppUser` class that wraps a `ClaimsPrincipal` and makes it easier to add and retrieve claims as well as easily login and logout all from a single helper object. * **Bootstrap Alert ErrorDisplay Tag Helper and Controller Support Feature** In most MVC applications you need some sort of error display and this ErrorDisplay TagHelper makes it quick easy to display an Alert box from a custom `ErrorDisplayModel` input. Helper methods like `ShowError()` or `ShowInfo()` on `BaseViewModel` make it very easy to display error and informational messages on pages. #### Api Functionality * **Api Error Handling Filter** A custom API error filter implementation that returns API responses on exceptions. Also provides a standardized `ApiExecption` class that can be used to force responses with specific HTTP response codes. * **RawRequest Body String Formatter** API formatter that allows for receiving raw non-json content to `string` and `byte[]` parameters, which otherwise isn't supported by MVC's API implementation. [More info in blog post](https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2017/Sep/14/Accepting-Raw-Request-Body-Content-in-ASPNET-Core-API-Controllers). ### General ASP.NET Core * **Custom Headers Middleware** Allows adding and removing of HTTP headers to every request using middleware configuration. * **HttpRequest Extensions** * `GetBodyStringAsync()` and `GetRawBodyBytesAsync()` - retrieve raw non-JSON content * `MapPath()` - Map virtual path to physical path on disk * `Params()` - Return an item from Form, Query or Session collections. * **DataProtector Wrapper** Helper to make it easier to use the DataProtector API to create secure tokens. * **UserState Helper** The UserState object greatly simplifies working with auth 'cached' token data more easily by storing a single value in a user claim or forms auth ticket that can be easily restored into an typed object. The class supports easily serialization and auto-loading from Claims. Can be extended by subclassing and adding your own values.