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Found 189 articles tagged with C#
28
Nov
2021
Unit of work pattern with Dapper
.NET229 titlesImplementing unit of work pattern with Dapper in .NET 5
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People often try to compare Dapper and Entity Framework. Although they both have same goal and that is reading and modifying the data against the database, they take completely different approach in doing so and therefore this comparison is not really valid.
Entity framework is more robust as the name says framework, while Dapper is simple object mapper which is down the line set of extension methods on top of the ADO classes which allow easier manipulation with data in the database...read more
21
Sep
2021
Adding display name to Enum values
.NET229 titlesImplementing additional values for Enum items in C#
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Enums are great way do list available options for certain variable values in your code. However, they do not come without limitations and they are not suitable for all scenarios.
One of those limitations are Enum value names which have restrictions similar to variable name restrictions in C#...read more
16
Jun
2021
C# scripting with .NET Core global tool
.NET229 titlesUsing .NET Core global tool to run C# script files
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I assume since you are reading this article you are involved in development of applications using C# and .NET platform. Microsoft .NET and C# have been around for quite a while but there is not much talk on haw you can use C# for writing code apart from creating your projects in your IDE of choice and compiling them to executables.
This is typical approach for writing robust applications and that is fine, but from time to time, this whole ceremony of creating a project, adding packages and libraries just to run for example a simple scheduled task that cleans up old logs from IIS seems like and overkill...read more
11
Dec
2020
Representing available string values for parameters as list in Swagger ASP.NET Core
.NET229 titlesValid values as list in Swagger UI in ASP.NET Core
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Swagger is a great way do describe your RESTful API. In ASP.NET it is pretty easy to wire up your OpenAPI documentation with your service facade with Swashbuckle NuGet package...read more
06
Sep
2020
Seeding data in EF Core using SQL scripts
.NET229 titlesAnother way of seeding data in EF Core
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Not so while ago I wrote an article on Seeding data with Entity Framework Core using migrations. This approach relies on EF Core migrations to ensure seeding of specific data is done only once using __EFMigrationsHistory table to track structural migrations as well as data seeding migrations.
In large number of cases this approach works just fine and you do not need to do any adjustments or add any additional tables, just use migrations mechanism out of the box...read more
21
Jun
2020
Dealing with default API versions in Swagger UI
.NET229 titlesFixing additional routes in Swagger API when using default versions
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Having your REST API versioned is important for evolving of the service over time. Especially if your service is exposed t multiple 3rd party clients...read more
11
May
2020
Setting up code coverage reports in Azure DevOps pipeline
.NET229 titlesCode coverage in .NET Core projects with Azure DevOps
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I while ago I wrote and article about Publishing .NET Core code analysis to SonarCloud from Azure build pipeline. Although SonarCloud is a great platform for analyzing your code coverage and dry code analysis, it can add additional cost to your project...read more
29
Apr
2020
Validate configurations with FluentValidation in ASP.NET Core
.NET229 titlesValidating IOptions models with FluentValidaton
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Configuration is an important part of the application. In many cases it determines how the application will behave, for example when you have different configurations per environment...read more
12
Mar
2020
Mocking HttpClient in unit tests with Moq and Xunit when using IHttpClientFactory
.NET229 titlesUnit testing IHttpClientFactory by mocking HttpClient in .NET Core C#
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.NET Core has done a great job by introducing interface for most of classes which makes them easy to write unit tests around them. However, there are a lot of classes that re commonly used which are not refactored in .NET Core...read more
09
Jan
2020
Mocking System.IO filesystem in unit tests in ASP.NET Core
.NET229 titlesTestable filesystem operations in ASP.NET Core and C#
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Working with file system operations like creating or deleting files and directories if quite often part of applications flow. Both .NET and .NET Core come with great out of the box classes and methods to achieve this.
These classes and methods are part of System.IO name space, but unfortunately both .NET and .NET Core implementations are the same and they use static classes and method to manipulate files and directories on the host file system.
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01
Oct
2019
Strongly typed configuration sections with options pattern in ASP.NET Core
.NET229 titlesLoading configuration values directly to classes and use them in the runtime
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Configuration is probably the most essential part of every application, yet we do not give much attention to it during application design and development. .NET Core has quite nice way to store configurations (usually JSON files) and already built-in extensions to access configuration values and directly cast them to a specific type...read more
04
Sep
2019
Mixed model binding in ASP.NET Core using custom model binders
.NET229 titlesIModelBinder interface implementations usage for multiple source model binding
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Patterns, conventions and standards are invented and enforced in order to make coding easier and more understandable for the developers, but in some cases certain patterns and conventions do not couple so easily and you have to rely on more on the actual technology you are using in order to overcome these complications. One of the cases this happens is using CQRS, especially commands and REST...read more
31
Aug
2019
Handling file uploads in Swagger UI with ASP.NET Core
.NET229 titlesSwagger UI file upload in ASP.NET Core WebApi
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Swagger is the most convenient way to document your REST api endpoints. It provides generating of documentation on the fly based on the code structure, which shortens the time of creating the documentation drastically...read more
28
Aug
2019
Monitoring Redis key events in .NET Core
.NET229 titlesKey event subscriptions for DEL, SET, EXPIRED key events in Redis using .NET Core
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Some time ago I wrote an article about Reloading the cache automatically once expired is ASP.NET MVC. The piece of code represented in that article is build on top of .NET Framework 4.7.2...read more
05
Jun
2019
Stop writing clients in C# for your Web APIs
.NET229 titlesAuto generating client libraries and packages for Web API using NSwag and Azure DevOps
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Times of writing your HttpClient setup to call REST API endpoint are over. It is just to much of repetitive code and taking care of the endpoints of the REST API service...read more
.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