A while ago I knocked up a NuGet package called PgpCore which uses the BouncyCastle library to easily encrypt and decrypt files and streams. The code for the project is here and this post is mainly here to point anyone Read more…
ASP.NET Core Rewrite Middleware Extensions I’ve recently updated my site and one of the demo projects on it uses the Bing Image Search API to fetch a list of images and display them. This worked fine when running locally but Read more…
This is a simple string extension for upper casing the first letter of a string, the code originally came from here.
Bing Image Search API The Image Search API lets you query the Bing search engine for a list of relevant images, in order to access it you need a cognitive services API key obtained from the Azure portal. The API Read more…
When creating a new API controller in a Web Application the template code created if you choose to include read/write actions provides a good overview of how to pass values through to the API methods and return results. The template Read more…
If you want to get the physical location of a user on your site there’s a couple of different methods that you can use, you can either use their IP address to get an approximate location or you can request Read more…
I’ve just started building a site using Bootstrap 4 which is different enough to Bootstrap 3 that I’m having to relearn a few things. One of those is form validation as previously I used bootstrap-validator though this doesn’t yet work Read more…
It’s possible to export an Azure SQL database to a BACPAC file using the Azure portal and PowerShell among other methods but the documentation makes no mention of doing this directly in .NET, though happily this is also possible. The Read more…
As part of a project where I was running multiple threads making API calls like this I was making a stored procedure call to log the results to an SQL database for each result returned. This worked fine when a Read more…
I’ve been trying to generate unique referal codes composed of uppercase letters for a project and although it’s not really necessary I wanted to make these as cryptographically sound as possible so I could reuse the code later in a Read more…