Contents tagged with .net
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Reactive Extensions - Their NuGet packages were renamed
This is an aide-memoire which may be of use to others, though it's old news and almost certainly won't be relevant unless you've got some relatively old codebases that need to be maintained and …
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Converting a load of files from UTF-16 to UTF-8
There's a database here that I've been meaning to get into source control for a long time. Luckily we have regular backups of it (that have been restore proven) and it never changes so it's been …
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Resolving: Cannot find command 'dotnet ef' and then dotnet-ef.dll isn't in the right folder?
So in my post yesterday I noted that dotnet ef wasn't present anymore and following the instructions to install it gave me a broken installation of dotnet ef.
The hack I used of copying files …
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Cannot find command 'dotnet ef' and then dotnet-ef.dll isn't in the right folder?
There I am, on a Saturday morning trying to create an Entity Framework Core structure for an existing database, and apparently there's no dotnet ef available to me.
After running dotnet tool …
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Facial Recognition using the UWP APIs in Windows 10 via Windows Forms on .NET Core 3.0
NOTE: The full code for the app built in this post is available on GitHub: https://github.com/robertwray/FacesOfUWP
In a recent post I talked about using the Microsoft.Windows.SDK.Contracts NuGet …
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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 …