This is a list of useful articles which I’ll try and update when I find them rather than immediately forgetting them after reading! 2019/11/18 – I Wanna Go Fast: Why Searching Through 500M Pwned Passwords Is So Quick A good Read more…
While there seems to be plenty of resources and guides out there to help users create an API there seems to be much less guidance on how to create a client for accessing an API. I’m fine with calling an Read more…
I’ve recently started getting to grips with the API Management service in Azure which seems to be a good way of managing access to resources and to document their usage. Part of this is the Developer Portal which acts as Read more…
I’ve been updating our company’s Christmas bake-off site and as part of the update I added the Microsoft.Identity.Web project to help with authentication and accessing the Graph API. This project doesn’t currently have a NuGet package though one is apparently Read more…
I’ve previously posted about how to cope with nullable values retrieved from a SqlDataReader but it’s also necessary to account for nulls when passing values through to a SQL operation such as a stored procedure. sp__set_completed.sql If you want you’re Read more…
I maintain a library called PGPCore for using PGP encryption in C#, in order to test how this performs when processing large files I needed to create a large file full of random data to check it was encrypting/decrypting as Read more…
I use Bootstrap 4 as the framework for most sites that I build and I’m mostly happy with how it works, though one area where I think it could be a bit more user friendly is in Form Validation. This Read more…
I recently needed to mask out some characters of a credit card string so that only the last 4 were displayed. Surprisingly there doesn’t seem to be many good examples of this so I decided to put together something myself Read more…
I have a table in Azure Table Storage that I need to keep as a replica of a local SQL table. Adding/updating rows from the local table is simple enough but it is slightly more complicated to find rows that Read more…
CsvHelper is handy for reading and writing CSV files but there’s no obvious way to write out a DataTable to a CSV file. Therefore in order to do this we need to loop through all the rows and columns of Read more…