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…
How to display a popup form from a button/link click in a webpage I was trying to figure out how to get a popup form to appear from a button click in a table, with the form making use of data from the row in which the button is clicked. Read more…
I wanted to use Chart.js charts in my ASP.NET Core projects and as there didn’t seem to be anything existing that fit the bill decided to do it myself. Chart Creation There seems to be a few projects around for generating the relevant javascript for Chart.js but all the ones Read more…
When setting up a website, even if it’s just a generic blog like this one, it’s good to encrypt traffic to and from it using SSL. Obtaining certificates If you’re hosting a site on it’s own custom domain name rather than using a free hosting provider then you’ll likely need Read more…
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 a technique for achieving loose Read more…
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 of the included NuGet packages is is “Microsoft.NETCore.App” version 1.0.1, upon upgrading this to version 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. Next download the latest stable release 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.
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 the XML data will be Read more…