Contents tagged with .net
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Creating projects and solutions using the dotnet command
I've been digging into .NET Core a little bit more recently, with the intention of using it for an upcoming project at work (sssh, don't tell anyone - they don't know yet!) and part of that has …
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Does one string contain another, irrespective of case?
One of the methods that's noticeable by its absence from the .NET Framework / .NET Core (or, to put it another way .NET Standard 2.0) is an override of string.Contains that takes a StringComparison …
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A basic MSMQ backed WCF server and client
After my recent post, MSMQ messages ending up in the "Transactional dead-letter messages" System Queue, I decided to build up my understanding of how MSMQ backed WCF services work by putting together …
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MSMQ messages ending up in the "Transactional dead-letter messages" System Queue
I've been working with a solution recently that uses MSMQ to, well, pass messages between components running on different machines. It's been implemented using WCF as the abstraction layer, so …
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Using is instead of == to check whether an object is a null reference
A tweet yesterday by Bertrand Le Roy:
Something in C# I learned today: `if (a is null)` is not just prettier, it's also more robust than `if (a == null)`. thx @MadsTorgersen
— Bertrand Le Roy (@ …
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Link Dump
Another collection of odds and ends, of dubious use to anyone but me, but perhaps of interest!
Proper Dependency injection in Azure Functions on function level with scoped services!
A blog post …
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Using the Azure Storage Emulator
As I'm gearing up to continue my series of posts on the subject of migrating an application to Azure, one of the things that occured to me was that the existing implementation has unit tests. …
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CsvHelper - a tidy package for working with CSV content
I needed to transform some CSV data recently and my Excel skills are somewhat lacking when it comes to the funky stuff, so I had a hunt around for a solution I could use to run up a quick and dirty …
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Deserializing awkward JSON using Json.NET
Aside: I'm never quite sure whether every instance of a word which has a Z in it, that sounds like it could have an S in it, should have an S in it when it's en-gb instead of en-us. In this instance …
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Writing a custom Condition for Orchard - checking the tags on a page
I've previously written about how I've added a standardised warning banner to certain pages in Orchard, so that I can always show something like the text in the image below when I've written a post …