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…
Getting a List of Countries and Their Identifiers The RegionInfo class in System.Globilization provides useful details about a region (country) such as the name, currency and ISO identifying codes. If you want to get a RegionInfo for every available country then you can use the following code which came from Read more…
Building URIs in .NET Core. Creating URIs with parameters in .NET Core is more complicated than I’d initially expected. As a result I ended up creating my own methods based upon this Stack Overflow answer. To begin with I needed a version to return relative paths I’ve also created a Read more…
SQL stored procedure in .NET Core. 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. public static List<string> GetBlogSummaries(string Read more…
Session and TempData variables can be used in MVC controllers to pass variables between actions or from actions to views, however if you want to pass complex objects through using these variables the base classes need to be extended to serialize/deserialize the provided objects to/from JSON. Session TempData Once the Read more…
Comparing objects between 2 different lists to determine which have different properties. I have a list of EventType objects with the following definition. public class EventType { public int EventTypeId { get; set; } public string EventTypeDesc { get; set; } public DateTime CreateDate { get; set; } public int Read more…
Adding logging to a .NET Core console application In .NET Core projects logging is managged via dependency injection. Whilst this works fine for ASP.NET projects where this is all automatically created upon starting a new project in Startup.cs, in console applications it takes a bit of configuration to get it Read more…
Adding appsettings.json to a .NET Core console app This is something that strangely doesn’t seem to be that well documented and took me a while to figure out though in the end it’s pretty simple. All that’s required is to add the following NuGet packages and an appsettings.json file. Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration Read more…
After creating a solution on one machine I then tried to open it on another and got the following error. If you ignore this error and then try to build the project an error saying “MSB1009 Project file does not exist.” is recieved. The project was originally created in Visual Read more…