If you’re using Serilog for logging in an application but it doesn’t seem to be logging anything then it’s possible to use the SelfLog functionality to have it report it’s own errors to help with debugging. The easiest way is Read more…
If you are returning a JSON representation of an object from an MVC controller it may be necessary to determine how the JSON is formatted. This can be done using the JsonSerializerSettings object like so. This used to work as Read more…
If you have 2 (or more) lists in C# and you want to check if they have 1 or more values in common then you can use the following LINQ to check.
If you have 2 dictionaries of the same datatype in C# which you want to merge together then you can use the following code. If a key exists in both of the dictionaries then the primary value will overwite the Read more…
If you have a complex table structure in SQL that you want to map into corresponding classes in your .NET Core project it might be easier to output the result of your SQL query as JSON and then deserialize the Read more…
I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to provide access to connections in my services via Dependency Injection (DI) for a while now. Typically I’ll pass the IConfiguration object through to the service using DI and then retrieve Read more…
If you want to get a users username in a site that uses authentication then you can just use the User object and that will provide all claims associated with that user. However if you want to get the username Read more…
I’ve used Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication and authorization in a variety of Web Apps for logins, calling external APIs (e.g. Graph API) and authorizing site area access and while authentication is reasonably simple to get working authorization has always Read more…
OData is an open protocol for enabling interaction with a datasource in a standardised way via a RESTful API. Theoretically using OData in combination with Entity Framweork should provide a simple way of providing access to SQL (or other) data Read more…
Bootstrap Table is the best way I’ve found of adding additional functionality to HTML tables. One of the nice features about it is that it will load data from a URL if it’s provided in the correct JSON format which Read more…