Articles about Microsoft’s .NET framework.
This is a quick article about using .NET Core Identity without the standard pages. It was almost titled “why does .NET Core Identity ignore my LoginPath that I set in options?”. Let’s start with a common chunk of code that you’ll find in your Startup.cs file if you’ve added identity to your project… services.AddIdentity<ApplicationUser, ApplicationRole>() […]
If you were a fan of ASP.NET MVC Widgets using Html.RenderAction, you might be a bit stunned that RenderAction is nowhere to be found in .NET Core. Don’t worry, though, because there is a Html.RenderAction equivalent in .NET Core MVC and it’s called View Components. View Component Class The view component class is quite a […]
Has you ASP.NET applicaiton reported that minification failed? If you are using bundles in application, you might come across this exception comment at the top of your larger-than-expected bundle file. /* Minification failed. Returning unminified contents. (List of problems here) */ It can happen for JavaScript or CSS, but it means minifier has found something […]
This is a short article to describe how I migrated a bunch of existing verbose tests to ApprovalTests. All of the examples in this article are based on my Shameless Green in C# library, which will be familiar to reader’s of 99 Bottles of OOP. Here are some quick links you might want once you […]
I had an existing .NET Framework project, from which I wanted to reference a .NET Standard 2.0 NuGet package. Due to the project having some history, I needed to make a few changes to get it building via a hosted build agent. Here is a run down of all the changes – if your project […]
Following on from a series of recent Windows Updates, a couple of our servers had a problem running Server Manager (“Server Manager has stopped working”) and SQL Management Studio (“Failed to Load penimc.dll”). The details of the Server Manager error were in the event log: Application: ServerManager.exe Framework Version: v4.0.30319 Description: The process was terminated […]
Once ASP.NET MVC has done all of the hard work of validating a model for you, you may find yourself wanting to squash the ModelState values into a string or JSON object. Because of the hierarchy, it might not be obvious at first glance how to do this, so your best bet would be to […]
If you find yourself constantly opening Source Control Explorer, you may want to use this handy shortcut to opening Visual Studio with the Source Control Explorer open, instead of the Start Page. Open the properties for your Visual Studio shortcut and change this: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe” And change it by adding the […]
Responsive images have been around for a while and have wide browser support as well as a strong fallback story for older browsers. The one thing holding us back from using them is the manual workflow… Arrive at office Create images at different sizes Upload images Write an HTML tag listing all the image sizes […]
One of the constant battles in software development is predicting where problems are in your code. There are lots of ways to cut up your codebase in order to predict where problems are likely to occur; I have been experimenting with some reports over check-in history in Visual Studio Team Services to find files with […]