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…
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…
Upper Case the First Letter of a String This is a simple string extension for upper casing the first letter of a string, the code originally came from here. public static class StringExtensions { public static string FirstLetterToUpperCase(this string s) Read more…
ASP.NET Core API Routing 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 Read more…
User GeoLocation in ASP.NET Core 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 Read more…
Bootstrap 4 Contact Form with Google reCaptcha 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 Read more…
Exporting an Azure SQL Databases Using .NET 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, Read more…
Thread Safe DataTable Inserts and SqlBulkCopy 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 Read more…
Cryptographically Secure Random Number In a similar vein to my attempt to generate a cryptographically secure random string I also wanted to be able to create cryptographically secure random numbers. The below function is based on the answer from Markus Read more…
Pre-Populating Social Sharing Messages Sharing buttons on a site can be configured to pre-populate content through various sharing channels such as email, Facebook and Twitter, though unfortunately this doesn’t seem to be that well documented. The below examples show how Read more…