The new datatypes of DateOnly and TimeOnly are a good addition to C# but it feels as if they were released too soon without proper integration with other features. An example of this is their integration with API controllers, when added as a datatype to an input or output DTO Read more…
If you’ve got a MySQL database running in Docker and you want to debug the calls being made to it you can enable logging and then export those logs to your desktop for investigation. First you need to enable logging in your MySQL database. Then if you trigger the action Read more…
When doing development work on a Mac sometimes the process won’t close down correctly and will end up locking a port which will provide an error when you try and start it up again. In order to kill a process on a specific port you first need to get its Read more…
As part of the current project I’m working on we’ve got a service which offloads some email send tasks to a background worker running in Hangfire. Creating the BackgroundJobClient directly in our service was throwing errors and didn’t allow us to test that it had actually been called so we Read more…
When we were refurbishing the house a year ago we added a couple of ANNKE C800 cameras as well as an ANKKE NVR to record and manage them. However it turns out that the NVR is a piece of crap with the web UI only being accessable via Internet Explorer. Read more…
I got the below error when trying to start a newly scaffolded web app. The target process exited without raising a CoreCLR started event. Ensure that the target process is configured to use .NET Core. This may be expected if the target process did not run on .NET Core. This Read more…
Adding healthchecks to your APIs is generally a good idea as it can provide some useful information about the status of your services. There’s a lot of good guides about how to do this including the offical Microsoft documentation but there’s fewer guides on how to set up your own Read more…
There’s a few APIs available which allow you to provide an IP address and to retrieve details back about it including it’s aproximate location. I was previously using ipstack for this but their free tier is pretty poor as it only provides 100 calls a month so I moved over Read more…
RestSharp has recently released a major new version with a lot of breaking changes. One of the things to change was custom authenticators which now seem to be less obvious to use. The documentation suggests creating a custom authenticator by inheriting from IAuthenticator but this doesn’t seem to work and Read more…
I’ve started to learning about Docker and as part of that process I’ve initially been trying to just deploy a simple test API to a locally running Docker container. In order to get a basic proof-of-concept site up and running I first created a new ASP .NET Core Web API Read more…