I call SQL stored procedures slightly differently in .NET Core to the way I did in .NET framework as I now pass the connection string through as an argument and I need to remember to add the System.Data.SqlClient NuGet package.
I use the WinSCP dll to download files from SFTP sites in SSDT, as shown here, but this approach doesn’t work in .NET Core applications as the WinSCP dll isn’t available as a NuGet package. An alternative to WinSCP is SSH.NET, which amoung other things, has the ability to download Read more…
Whilst writing a process to upload instore purchases to Facebook using their offline conversion API I discovered that their API only accepts a maximum of 2,100 events in any one API call. As I already ahd a nice list of events I had a look around and managed to find Read more…
In addition to the SingleOrArrayConverter mentioned previously I’ve also created a version to translate enums to/from JSON using the name of the enum rather than it’s value as is the default.
Often APIs will have actions where one of the parameters can be either a single object or an array of objects, in order to correctly serialize objects to JSON which can be accepted by the API a custom JsonConverter is needed. This code is borrowed from this stack overflow article. Read more…
I have a list of EventType objects with the following definition. These are used in a web application where the properties can be adjusted and the resulting list is posted back to the controller action. Rather than updating all the objects returned (even the non-modified ones) I wanted to extract Read more…
I generally end up forgetting how to return results from a SQL stored procedure within .NET so I figured I’d put it here for reference.