Contents tagged with .net
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Scaffolding an Entity Framework Core database in a project that targets .NETStandard
I've been working on a project recently for storing system configuration data (I know, I know, this is a problem that's been solved a thousand times over!) and after defining the database structure …
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Adding logging to an old .NET 4.0 project via Castle Windsor to measure performance
Recently I've been working with a reasonably old codebase, one that's using Castle / Castle.Windsor 3.1.0 which dates back to late 2012, targeting plain .NET Framework 4.0. This has been 'interesting' …
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Resolving 'missing' assemblies where the assembly has been renamed
We've probably all seen assembly binding redirects kicking around in config files, looking like this:
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<dependentAssembly>
< …
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Don't store monetary values as doubles
It's something that everyone should know, but apparently not...
I had an issue raised by a user recently for a piece of software that I inherited where they were being told that EUR 31,995.27 was …
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Using Azure to provide a holding page for a site that's not available
One of the fantastic things about Azure is how quickly you can spin up, and down, services as and when you need them. In a world where not everything's been migrated to the cloud yet this can be …
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C# 7.1 - Async Main has been around a while now
C# 7.1 has been out in the wild for quite a while (since August 2017 according to Wikipedia!) yet I still see a lot of people on Stackoverflow asking questions where they're hitting the .Result …
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Using C#7 Local Functions
After I wrote a post recently that covered the Tuple C# 7.0 language feature it got me thinking about all the other language enhancements that have been added in C# 7.0 and its three subsequent …
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Using the C#7 Tuple language feature to eliminate an anonymous type
It might be a bit "old news" now, given that C# 7.0 was released in March 2017 (according to Wikipedia, so it must be true!) but after I answered a question on Stackoverflow earlier today I was …
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Calling ASP.NET Web API end-points for testing purposes with Refit in .NET Core
Back in August I wrote Calling ASP.NET Web API end-points for testing purposes where I described a "bare metal" approach to calling Web Api methods using HttpClient by creating a wrapper that could …
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Using the #if pre-processor directive to do different things for x64 builds
I'd just about finished writing an answer for a question on Stack Overflow when the poster deleted it, so I thought I'd drop the answer here instead.
The question asked was essentially:
How can I …