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JavaScript Cookie Function
If for whatever reason you can’t just use a nice jQuery plugin like js-cookie then the below Javascript will serve as a basic method of setting and getting cookies. Set Cookie Get Cookie
Programming
Fixing Obsolete LoggerFactory Extension Methods
I use Serilog for logging in most of my console applications as specified here, however the AddConsole and AddDebug extension methods are now obsolete in .NET Core 2.2 giving the below errors. ‘ConsoleLoggerExtensions.AddConsole(ILoggerFactory)’ is obsolete: ‘This method is obsolete and Read more…
Programming
Using Azure Key Vault in a Console Application
Azure Key Vault is a pretty handy way of centrally managing access to secrets and logging what process has requested access to them. The best way to use it is for Azure hosted resources such as Web Applications or VMs Read more…
Programming
Logging Failed Requests to Serilog Using Middleware
This is an evolution of my previous post in which I described a method for inspecting the body of a request in a middleware method and passing it out so it could be logged later if required. The below code Read more…
Programming
C# DateTime Usage
Below are a couple of methods for working with DateTime objects easier that I thought I’d collate into a single post. Default Value When using a newly initialised DateTime object as a source for an input field in an MVC Read more…
Programming
Week Numbers in C#
One of the options in bootstrap-datepicker is to show the week number on the same row as the days of the week. This numbers the weeks using the ISO-8061 standard which is fine (though it would be nice to have Read more…
Programming
Creating FormUrlEncodedContent Variables from Objects
If you want to send some URL encoded content to an API you can use the built in FormUrlEncodedContent to convert an IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, string>> to a correctly coded content object. The most basic way to get the required KeyValuePair IEnumerable Read more…
Programming
Using IdentityServer4 for API Authentication
IdentityServer4 is an OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 framework for ASP.NET Core 2 which can be used to manage authentication for web applications. In my case I wanted to set up OAuth 2.0 authentication using a SQL backend for an Read more…
Programming
Accessing the Bing Ads API in a Console Application
Although there’s plenty of documentation by Microsoft on how to use their Bing Ads API the documentation on how to initially connect to it seems a bit fragmented so this is an attempt to summarize all the steps required to Read more…
Programming
Increase Width of Hestia WordPress Container
This site is built using WordPress and styled with the Hestia theme. Hestia uses Bootstrap as a layout framework with the main boxed element being a container, this has a max width of 1170px on viewports over 1200px wide. As Read more…