Contents tagged with .net
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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 …
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Splitting out ASP.NET Core Identity into a separate library
In a recent post I described how to change the data type that ASP.NET Core Identity uses for the generated id's for users. Before I go much further I want to split this out into a separate library, …
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Wrapping ConcurrentQueue<T> to make it eventful
One of the projects I inherited has been merrily sat on its server bubbling away and doing what it needs to do since before I joined the company until a few days ago when another service on the …
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Taking the GUID out of ASP.NET Core Identity
I've been working on an ASP.NET Core web project using the built-in ASP.NET Core Identity solution. All the project scaffolding was done by choosing to create a new ASP.NET Core Web Application, …
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Resolving the error "'bobj' is undefined" with Crystal Reports
Every couple of months the Crystal Reports installed in an application here stops working (reports don't display) after the server that hosts it has been Windows Update'd with the wonderfully …
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Converting a simple solution/project to .NET Core
I have a very small project I started writing back in 2015 for parsing responses from DNS servers, more because I was interested in how to do so than any real need. Because this mostly pre-dates . …