ASP.NET Core Rewrite Middleware Extensions I’ve recently updated my site and one of the demo projects on it uses the Bing Image Search API to fetch a list of images and display them. This worked fine when running locally but when published it appeared that a number of the linked Read more…
Upper Case the First Letter of a String This is a simple string extension for upper casing the first letter of a string, the code originally came from here. public static class StringExtensions { public static string FirstLetterToUpperCase(this string s) { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(s)) throw new ArgumentException("There is no first letter"); Read more…
Recursive Object Properties I’ve been working to create a virtual file system for SQL databases and represent this in a web interface. While creating the classes in .NET I realised that I needed to be able to traverse all the ancestors of a file up to the root level and Read more…
List Shuffling This is just a simple extension for lists to enable the shuffling of items within it based on the StackOverflow answer here. This relies on System.Random so isn’t as random as it could be but is fine for my purposes. public static IEnumerable<T> Shuffle<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source, Random rng) Read more…