Articles about Microsoft’s .NET framework.
When you don’t want to script out your own database, Entity Framework Core has your back. When you change your database context or the models it uses, you can use a couple of commands to create and update your database to keep it in sync with your model. These examples run in the Package Manager […]
I did this trick in JavaScript to remove diacritic marks a while back and the need to perform a similar transformation in C# came up this week. The following method simplifies strings such as “façade” into simple string like “façade”. private static string Simplify(string input) { string normalizedString = input.Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormD); StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder(); […]
In the past I have used Log Parser Studio to run SQL style queries against IIS logs, but it can take a fair bit of time to do this. Sometimes you just want to run a quick SQL query against the log data that IIS has collected. SQL Server is a super quick way of […]
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 […]