Sitefinity Custom Widget – deploying external assembly

We are building a custom widget for Sitefinity. Looking at the options available we have chosen to go with the external MVC assembly approach to reduce dependencies. However, it appears that we still need to reference the custom widget assembly from the Sitefinity project in Visual Studio which would involve copying the assembly over, adding the reference and then redeploying Sitefinity.

Unable to connect to database with .NET Core 3.1 File System Publish to IIS

Question: How do I properly setup the database connection when using the File System method to publish an ASP .NET Core 3.1 Web-Api to IIS running on Windows 10? I believe I have added all of the correct Windows features for IIS because it runs and I am running VS 2019 Community in Admin mode.

Editing a viewmodel’s member via button without submit

I’m using Asp Net Core 3.1 and am working on developing admin controls to approve and delete submitted images that are awaiting approval. The functionality that I am developing and am stuck on is as follows: I have created a grid of images waiting approval (using a loop in razor) and would like to click a button to “approve” that image via the logic I have written in my controller. How would I pass that data to the controller without refreshing the page?

ASP.NET Core Bootstrap 4 Accordion only partially expanding

I’m trying to generate an accordion dynamically using bootstrap and ASP.NET Core.
The goal is to show all terms which belong to a certain category but the problem is that only the first two out of four categories are expanding/collapsing. I can see, that each card-header and card-body is available in the DOM.
My code looks like this: