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My blog of techy stuff, ranging around SQL (SQL Server, that is), C# and .net, JavaScript and a smattering of stuff about the Orchard CMS (that powers my site) as I get more familiar with it. There's the occasional non-technical post when something is of interest to me that I feel is worth sharing, but they should be few and far between
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Double translating using the AngularJS angular-translate library
For those of us who're still working with applications using AngularJS 1.x (it's still in long-term support for nearly 2 years so plenty of time to plan a migration!), localising strings in the …
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Persuading a SQL Server UDF to throw
Unfortunately (and annoyingly, at times!) it's not possible to persuade a SQL Server User-Defined Function to throw, though I've managed to find (more by luck thank judgement!) a way to get the …
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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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Getting the tail of a file in PowerShell (and dropping it into a GridView)
I've had need to wrangle a very long log file recently that gets appended to and doesn't have any log file splitting / cycling baked into it. Changing the logging process so that it generates a …
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When's my domain password due to change?
If I'm due to take annual leave (as I did last week) I like to check that my password isn't going to expire whilst I'm out of the office and change it a couple of days before I go on leave, just …
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Using IUserValidator to provide additional user validation rules in ASP.NET Core Identity
In my recent series of posts I extended the UserManager class from ASP.NET Core Identity (specifically its CreateAsync method) in order to confirm that the user was permitted to register and also …
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Useful links around ASP.NET Core Identity
Whilst working on my recent series of posts about ASP.NET Core Identity there were quite a few pages I used to research either the topic in general, or issues I encountered. Here's a selection of …
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The finishing touches to hooking into ASP.NET Core Identity user creation
In my previous posts I've setup ASP.NET Core Identity, tweaked the IDs (just because I can), extended the Identity so it stores extra data and started the process of pulling it all together by …
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Refreshing the IntelliSense cache in Azure Data Studio
As with SQL Server Management Studio, Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code (the latter being the product Azure Data Studio is based on) there's support for IntelliSense, which is why in the …
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Extending the ASP.NET Core Identity UserManager to set the Employee Id during registration
In previous posts I looked at adding a custom property to the ASP.NET Core Identity user, along with reading and writing the property for a logged in user. The next logical step, assuming that the …