I recently wanted to create a nested doughnut (or donut?) chart to help me to visualize what I was spending per resource group as I was getting close to hitting the monthly limit of free money in my MSDN account. After a bit of Googling it appears that there isn’t Read more…
I’ve recently been working on a project to display Azure billing information in an internal dashboard and to send out alerts if the billing exceeds a certain amount. The first problem I had with this was that although there’s GitHub projects for getting the rate card and billing information they’re Read more…
I’ve previously used the Google one click reCAPTCHA in sites but as the new invisible version is out I figured I’d have a go at getting it to work. Previously I had the one click reCAPTCHA working as below where the result populated an invisible required field validated using Bootstrap Read more…
I hadn’t previously realised this but MVC adds an X-FRAME-OPTIONS: SAMEORIGIN header to site page responses as part of a security measure to prevent sites running in iframes. These can be removed in ASP.NET 5 applications by modifying the relevant option in Startup.cs.
The ability to create your own middleware comes in pretty handy when creating MVC 6 APIs as it allows the inspection and processing of the requests/responses flowing into and out of the application. A few of the most useful ones I’ve used are below, a good guide to using middleware Read more…
ed to validate UK postcodes for a site I was building, after a bit of hunting around this seemed to be the best one that I could find, hopefully this will save me some Googling in future!
Tag helpers are a new feature in MVC 6 and are similar to the old style HTML helper methods though they have a more HTML like syntax. There’s plenty of good guides about how to use them around so I’m not going to rehash that here, instead, what I’m mostly Read more…
After creating a solution on one machine I then tried to open it on another and got the following error. If you ignore this error and then try to build the project an error saying “MSB1009 Project file does not exist.” is recieved. The project was originally created in Visual Read more…
How to set the default application in Windows IoT on a Raspberry Pi I’ve recently finished a project which turns my Lifx lightbulbs on and off through calls to their API from a Raspberry Pi running Windows IoT. This deployed fine to the Raspberry Pi but it proved impossible to Read more…
How to create a NuGet package from a .NET Core class library I’ve built a few class libraries recently but in order to use them in other projects they need to be created as a NuGet package and uploaded. The easiest way to creat the NuGet package is to add Read more…