ASP.NET Core Settings Dependency Injection There’s a variety of different ways to access configuration settings from an appsettings.json file in a project, these are all well documented here so this post is mostly intended to serve as a reminder for the methods I most frequently use. Dependency injection (DI) is Read more…
When upgrading NuGet packages in an ASP.NET Core project I get a runtime target error. Whenever I create a new project in Visual Studio 2015 one of the first things I do is go and upgrade all of the included NuGet packages. When creating an ASP.NET Core Web Application one Read more…
Although there’s a date picker present in HTML5 this won’t always work in older browsers and doesn’t look that great anyway so it’s generally better to do this via jQuery. First off add the following script tags to the head section of your page. <script src=”https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6/jquery.min.js” type=”text/javascript”></script> <script src=”https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/jquery-ui.min.js” type=”text/javascript”></script> Read more…
I generally end up forgetting how to return results from a SQL stored procedure within .NET so I figured I’d put it here for reference. public static List<Blog> GetBlogSummaries() { List<Blog> blogs = new List<Blog>(); using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[“BlogDatabase”].ConnectionString)) { using (SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand(“sp__get_blog_summaries”)) { command.CommandType Read more…
API .Net Core XML Ingestion What I need to do here is to create an API that can authenticate and ingest an XML POST request, saving the provided data into a SQL database and returning a relevant HTML status code. Unfortunately this wasn’t quite as easy as I’d anticipated as Read more…
This is essentially just based on Google prettify which can be found here. Just stick the following code in the head of the page to load the javascript. <script src=”https://cdn.rawgit.com/google/code-prettify/master/loader/run_prettify.js”></script> And then put the code you’d like to prettify in the following tags. <pre class=”prettyprint lang-html”></pre> If using this for Read more…