While there seems to be plenty of resources and guides out there to help users create an API there seems to be much less guidance on how to create a client for accessing an API. I’m fine with calling an API using HttpClient or through a library such as RestSharp Read more…
I’ve previously posted about how to cope with nullable values retrieved from a SqlDataReader but it’s also necessary to account for nulls when passing values through to a SQL operation such as a stored procedure. sp__set_completed.sql If you want you’re stored procedure to accept nulls then you first need to Read more…
I maintain a library called PGPCore for using PGP encryption in C#, in order to test how this performs when processing large files I needed to create a large file full of random data to check it was encrypting/decrypting as expected. After a bit of searching the answers to this Read more…
I recently needed to mask out some characters of a credit card string so that only the last 4 were displayed. Surprisingly there doesn’t seem to be many good examples of this so I decided to put together something myself and I figured it would be more useful as an Read more…
Entity Framework is a nice way of accessing databases without having to write any data access code. Because Entity Framework is able to modify data in your database it needs a primary key to be defined in order for it to be able to uniquely identify rows. In my case Read more…
I use IdentityServer to manage access to a few client APIs with the configuration details stored in SQL. The one downside to using IdentityServer is that there doesn’t yet seem to be a good option for administration of credentials, though Skoruba.IdentityServer4.Admin certainly looks promising. In order to add new clients Read more…
I’m in the process of building an Azure Function to replicate some of the functionality found in Postcodes.io. This function will accept one or more postcodes as input and return details of the postcodes in the response. This looks retrieves the postcode details from a copy of the ONS Postcode Read more…
While trying to add items to a dictionary I discovered that there’s no equivalent of the AddRange which is available for lists. This is for good reason as adding a KeyValuePair to a dictionary requires first checking that the given key doesn’t already exist and so is more computationally expensive Read more…
In trying to parse some URL parameters in a project I realised that Boolean.Parse and Boolean.TryParse work in slightly different ways and that neither was broad enough for my purposes. Boolean.TryParse Boolean.TryParse takes a string input parameter and a Boolean output parameter and returns a Boolean specifying whether the input Read more…
Dependency Injection (DI) has been available in .NET Core Web Applications for a while and now seems to have finally made it’s way to Azure Functions as well and is available in the current Azure Functions Runtime 2.0.12382. The GitHub issue tracking DI implementation in Azure Functions is here. I’ve Read more…