Archived articles - January 2018
Archive for January 2018 (11)
28
Jan
2018
Complex parameters in Windows PowerShell scripting
PowerShell24 titlesPassing and handling parameter in Windows PowerShell script
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Like in any other language, in PowerShell we also want to reuse our code and execute same set of operations with different parameters. PowerShell has great support for parameters which can be used in PowerShell script invocation.If you want your script to accept parameters you need to declare them in the script file...read more
24
Jan
2018
Setting ASP.NET application on IIS always running with PowerShell
PowerShell24 titles Switch off AppPool timeout with PowerShell script
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When creating new website with new application pool, bu default IIS sets your application pool in a way to save resources when inactive. This is because it does not want to run your website all the time if is there is no activity on it and keep using resources on the host for idle worker processes (w3wp.exe).
This is the reason you might experience slow response when opening your website URL from time to time especially if your website has low traffic.
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22
Jan
2018
Concatenate list of strings in C# using LINQ
.NET229 titlesConcatenate list of string into single string using LINQ in c#
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More often you will need a list of strings from a single string with a Split method, not so often you need to get a single string from an IEnumerable of strings, but still those requirements exist form time to time.
This does not look like a complex tasks, but still there are several ways to achieve this.
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21
Jan
2018
Get number of messages in MSMQ with C#
.NET229 titlesMSMQ message count in .NET
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MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queuing) is a built in Windows component. It is not so popular now days as there are more efficient and robust solutions available.
However, it still has it's place in application architecture as a simple queueing system, plus as I mentioned, it comes out of the box with Windows operating system as a Windows component.This means it is still widely used Windows based applications mostly for internal notifications and services between components of the solution...read more
19
Jan
2018
Automated clean up and archive of log files with PowerShell 5
PowerShell24 titlesArchiving old log files with PowerShell 5 and Windows Scheduled Tasks
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Depending on the application architecture, your Windows virtual machine might have one or more applications or components of a single solution. Those might be WebApi services, Web Applications or Windows applications.
Any of these components may generate logs which are important for diagnostics and tracking down events...read more
17
Jan
2018
Clean up IIS log files from web server using PowerShell
PowerShell24 titlesAvoid low disk space because of IIS logs with PowerShell Scheduled Task
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Microsoft IIS Server is by default logging every request that reaches it.
This can be pretty useful for tracking down the issue which my occur over time, but it is also pilling up log files on server's disk which eventually can cause low disk space. You an always clean up these files manually, but wouldn't it be nice if server does that for you?
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17
Jan
2018
Setting up IIS ASP.NET WebApplication using PowerShell
PowerShell24 titlesSetup ASP.NET web application hosted on IIS using PowerShell
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PowerShell is the best option for automation on Windows platform. Regardless of which platform and how you organize Continous Deployment, you will always need to introduce certain level of customization during the deployment process.
Scripting with PowerShell can play main role with these kind of customizations...read more
14
Jan
2018
Setting permissions for ASP.NET application on IIS with PowerShell
PowerShell24 titlesSetting the write permission for IIS AppPool using PowerShell
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Very often you need to setup ASP.NET Web application on IIS server, you need to setup file and folder permission for your application on order to access content of specific folder.
This can be easily done through Windows Explorer Properties window in the Security tab.
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14
Jan
2018
JavaScript base64 image to Bitmap in C#
.NET229 titlesConverting base64 image string to Bitmap in C#
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Base64 serialized images are useful in many cases for serving images on page. It is also a format of image that JavaScript can generate on the fly.
HTML canvas object has native support for base64 and it can be easily serialized to base64 string from JavaScript code by invoking toDataURL method of the canvas element.
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13
Jan
2018
Separate configuration files per build config in Visual Studio IDE
.NET229 titlesGenerating different configuration files on the build time in VS IDE
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It is an often case that application configuration is different for each environment. Most often this is the case for database connection string where developer has connection string to dev environment database or it's local database and quality assurance (qa) and production have different connection strings wile the rest of the config...read more
11
Jan
2018
Manage IIS website from ASP.NET code
.NET229 titlesControlling the current ASP.NET application running on IIS from the code
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Microsoft made IIS management from the ASP.NET code itself much easer and accessible right out of the box by introducing Microsoft.Web.Administration library. Simply by adding the reference in your project to Microsoft.Web.Administration library you are getting options to manage websites hosted on the IIS where application is running. One of the requirements beside referencing Microsoft.Web.Administration library is setting your Application Pool to run under LocalSystem account.
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.NET
5
Jun
2022
Using dotnet nuget package vulnerability scan in Azure DevOps build
Listing nuget vulnerabilities and controlling build in Azure DevOps
5
May
2022
Protecting static files in ASP.NET Core using custom middleware
Restricting access to specific static content with middleware in ASP.NET Core
20
Dec
2021
Supporting multiple authentication schemes in asp.net core webapi
Using more than one authentication schemes in webapi projects
12
Dec
2021
Controlling the flow of migrations in EF Core
Altering EF Core migrations execution order
28
Nov
2021
Unit of work pattern with Dapper
Implementing unit of work pattern with Dapper in .NET 5
21
Sep
2021
Adding display name to Enum values
Implementing additional values for Enum items in C#
JavaScript
28
Oct
2018
HTML5 localStorage with expiry with vanilla JavaScript
Using HTML5 localStorage with expiry
8
May
2018
Monitoring DOM changes with JavaScript
Handling DOM changes with plain JavaScript
9
May
2017
Non blocking CSS load on the page
Load external CSS files in an async manner
16
Mar
2017
Serialize html form to JSON without using JQuery
Transform user input from HTML form fields to JSON
17
Jan
2016
Copy text value to clipboard using jQuery
Simple sample of using jQuery to copy value to clipboard
11
Jan
2016
Resize image on the client side with JQuery
Reducing the upload sie by resizing image on the client side
SQL/T-SQL
22
Feb
2022
Select column names with values from SQL Server database
Fetching column names with its value in T-SQL using built in JSON methods
23
May
2020
Identifying opened connections for the specific application in SQL Server
Connection listing queries in SQL Server
3
May
2018
Reading JSON data in T-SQL on SQL Server
Extracting values from JSON string on SQL Server using T-SQL
28
Apr
2016
Create XML/HTML with T-SQL
Generating XML/HTML output in SQL Server
24
Nov
2015
IP address to octets split in TSQL
Split IP addresse into octets in SQL Server
20
Jul
2015
Getting first and last second of the current year, month and day
Using minimum and maximum date time in SQL query
Umbraco CMS
2
Mar
2018
Minify HTML output of your pages
Minification of HTML output using ASP.NET IHttpModule
18
Apr
2015
Generate sitemap.xml on the fly in Umbraco CMS
Simple sitemap.xml Umbraco handler
2
Mar
2015
Accessing UmbracoHelper in HttpHandler request
Working with UmbracoHelper and IPublishedContent in HttpHandler
14
Sep
2014
Same page language switching in Umbraco
Land on the same page in different language in Umbraco using Relations
4
Sep
2014
Getting cropped image the smart way
The way to get cropped image URL with option to load original image too
27
Aug
2014
Fastest way to return JSON result from a controller
Resturn JSON in MVC controller action