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 is with version 2 of .NET Core but with the 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 secondary value. In the above example secondaryDictionary will now contain 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 for a user where they’re not required to authenticate first 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 via API, this is indeed the case but setting things 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 allows the data provision to be decoupled from the page Read more…
I’ve been working with OData recently and one thing that briefly stumped me was that the property names begin with @ and in an MVC view the @ symbol is used to indicate C# code so when I tried to reference a property in JavaScript the page then thought I Read more…
If you want to use Entity Framework to access pre-existing SQL tables (the database first approach) then providing they’re all keyed up correctly it’s possible to generate all the required classes and the DB context for them with just a few commands. First you need to install the following 3 Read more…
When creating a console application I normally mimic ASP.NET core apps and keep my configuration settings in an appsettings.json file. When publishing the application in Visual Studio the appsettings.json file needs to have it’s properties updated to ensure it’s copied to the publish folder like so. Doing this updates the Read more…
In the v3 version of Azure Functions DI is better supported and there’s now some offical documentation demonstrating how it’s done. It’s pretty similar to how it was done previously, below is updated code from my previous v2 example. Startup.cs The IFunctionsHostBuilder instance is created by the Azure functions host Read more…