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Solution- The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge

Below, I have mentioned both root-cause & solution of the above error.

Understand Authentication and Authorization in Web Applications

As Web API (Rest API) is stateless, so there should be some mechanism by which a server can identify the user in every request. So to enable a user's identity to a web server, we pass some data in headers in each web request to the server. The server reads that data & understands to identify the user. This process of identifying the user & ensuring that he is a valid one is known as Authentication.

Token Based Authentication in Web API 2 using OWIN

In this post, we will learn how to secure Web APIs by implementing Token Based Authentication & Authorization in them. You can refer this post to understand what is Authentication & Authorization in web applications.

The difference between Encryption, Hashing & Salting

You might have heard these terms very often – Encryption, Hashing & Salting. In this post, I have tried to explain you all these terms in a very easy way.

Solution- System.BadImageFormatException- Could not load file or assembly

Make sure that you are using the correct tool path (i.e. installutil.exe) for installing the application.

Solution- Found a swap file by the name ".git/.MERGE_MSG.swp"

Normally, you get this error message when you are performing GIT operations from two different places. Like I got this issue while I was using Git Bash (Command Line) & Visual Studio together to perform Git operations.