As part of a recent project I needed to encrypt a file with GPG using a public key provided by a client before transferring it over to them. This seemed to be surprisingly badly documented (though this blog did come Read more…
One of the new input types in HTML5 is week which allows you to specify a week period. Unfortunately although Chrome brings up a nice datepicker to allow you to select the week Firefox and IE12 and earlier don’t implement Read more…
When publishing a .NET Core 2.0 Web App to Azure from Visual Studio 2017 the initial few deployments seem to work as expected but after a while they often start failing with the message ERROR_FILE_IN_USE. There’s a few proposed solutions Read more…
For this I just wanted a basic regex for email addresses, it will get nearly all emails but there’s likely to be some edge cases that it’s unhappy with.
I use Serilog to log to a SQL database in most of my web applications and although it’s pretty well documented the details relevant to my projects are spread out over a few sites so I figured I’d gather them Read more…
Importing CSV files into a .NET object isn’t too tricky and for this I usually use CsvHelper. However, sometimes I need to import a CSV file and only extract a couple of columns from it and these columns aren’t always Read more…
If you want to check if one instance of a custom class is equal to another instance of it you need to override the Equals operator for the class and implement your own. The code below is based on the Read more…
Sometimes in an MVC controller you just want to return a HTTP status code from a method rather than a view or data object. This is pretty simple but is done slightly differently in .NET Core than it was done Read more…
I’ve had a raspberry Pi for a while now and one of the projects I’ve wanted to do but never actually got around to was to use it as a weather station as in this example from Microsoft. Unfortunately getting Read more…
I’ve been working to create a virtual file system for SQL databases and represent this in a web interface. While creating the classes in .NET I realised that I needed to be able to traverse all the ancestors of a Read more…