I recently built a new PC based on the Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 7, as this is a pretty new motherboard I figured I’d try and update the BIOS/UEFI to the latest version. Unfortunately it seems the Q-Flash utility for doing this doesn’t work properly (at least not for me). Read more
I’ve just built a new computer and have been setting up all my software on it again, as part of that I need to set up Calibre to download news and send it to my Kindle via my Gmail account. The first thing to take care of is whitelisting the Read more
I’ve gotten so used to working with JSON that I’d almost forgotten what a chore it can be to work with XML. A case in point is the below XML sample that I’m trying to deserialize into a class, essentially I want to capture all the attributes of the “Attribute” Read more
I’ve been using the SendGrid API for a project and I was trying to be lazy and read multiple email addresses to send to from a single parameter in appsettings.json with the email addresses separated by a semicolon. Strangely this only sends to the first email in the string so Read more
This is just a simple extension for lists to enable the shuffling of items within it based on the StackOverflow answer here. This relies on System.Random so isn’t as random as it could be but is fine for my purposes.
I have a package called ChartJSCore which generates the required JavaScript for creating Chart.js charts in a web application. For the most part the JS for this is essentially JSON so this works by serializing chart objects using Newtonsoft which automatically quotes both the object name and value. However, some Read more
I’ve had a few projects where I’ve had a large number of asyncronous tasks to execute but haven’t wanted to execute them all at once as this would create too many threads and would result in system degredation. Initially I used something similar to the below to execute all tasks Read more
For this I just wanted a basic regex for phone numbers, it’s all numeric with an optionaly starting “+”.
Sometimes it’s necessary to host multiple sites under the same parent address, in Azure this can be done by deploying multiple projects to seperate folders within a single WebApp. To begin with you need to create a WebApp, once this has been created use the Console blade under Development Tools Read more
The easiest way to post data from a view to a controller action is by adding a form and submit button and letting most of the hard stuff happen automatically. Unfortunately this doesn’t really work in cases where data needs to be submitted by a javascript function, in these situations Read more