A while ago I knocked up a NuGet package called PgpCore which uses the BouncyCastle library to easily encrypt and decrypt files and streams. The code for the project is here and this post is mainly here to point anyone in need towards it as I had to fix a Read more…
This is a simple string extension for upper casing the first letter of a string, the code originally came from here.
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 location or you can request a more accurate location from them using the HTML geolocation Read more…
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, though happily this is also possible. The process detailed below triggers a database export to a specified Read more…
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 returned. This worked fine when a low number of threads was used but then started to Read more…
I’ve been trying to generate unique referal codes composed of uppercase letters for a project and although it’s not really necessary I wanted to make these as cryptographically sound as possible so I could reuse the code later in a personal password generator project. Turns out it wasn’t as simple Read more…
By default new Web Applications created in Visual Studio 2017 use Bower for managing external libraries such as jQuery and Bootstrap, however Bower is no longer best practice (and seemed a bit flaky in Visual Studio anyway) and so for new projects I now use npm for managing packages. Using Read more…
I’ve been working on creating a page for for the uploading of files to either a SQL database or Azure Blob storage which turned out to be much more complicated than initially expected. I managed to eventually piece together how to do this and the resulting demo project can be 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 guaranteed to exist. In order to do this I use 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 articles The Right Way to do Equality in C# and Read more…