So I was writing an inline if statement the other day… you know the ones – booleanStatement ? resultIfTrue : resultIfFalse; It was pretty simple, so I didn’t think too much about it until I ran some unit tests…. via GIPHY Here’s what my code kind of looked like: So, what would you expect the … [Read more…]
Sometimes you just need some logging to do a sanity check that things are actually working the way that you’re expecting. via GIPHY Here’s how to turn logging on in ASP.NET Core 2 for SignalR: I’ve had to look this up more than twice, and its not exactly easy to find in the Microsoft docs, … [Read more…]
XUnit has some cool stuff like Theory, which lets you write multiple test cases to run against the same test code. This lets you test multiple paths with different inputs without having to write multiple tests. This can save you a lot of time as you can cover a lot of ground with a single … [Read more…]
Imagine that you have a NuGet package containing a bunch of static strings. These fields are intended to be used instead of magic strings, making it so anything that takes a dependency on this NuGet package will all be on the same page about these unique keys. Now suppose that these keys also represent the … [Read more…]
Last week I wrote about how to upload a file from a website using Angular and .NET Core. Writing tests for this is mostly straightforward, but there’s a few gotchas that I thought I would write down for the next time I need to do this. The front end tests are pretty trivial – you … [Read more…]
Uploading a file from a website is pretty simple, but I always have to look it up. There’s all sorts of different technologies and frameworks that work with the web, so I just thought I would write down how I got it to work so that next time I can just come back here and … [Read more…]
In a C# console application, you can change the color of the text emitted by Console.WriteLine by setting Console.ForegroundColor and Console.BackgroundColor. It’s pretty straightforward, but if you want to make the output have different colors to denote different things, its kind of cumbersome to have to set the color and then write the output, and … [Read more…]
This one’s kind of specific, but sometimes when you’re writing a console app that does a lot of asynchronous stuff, and you want to cancel it at any time by pressing escape. via GIPHY However, Console.ReadKey is blocking… so that’s not super great. CancellationToken First, make use of the cancellation tokens. I’ve talked about them … [Read more…]
Are you tired of feeling like your code is meaningless? Sick of people not referring to your code as “black magic,” or struggling to gain recognition from your boss for writing sufficiently obfuscated code?If you’ve answered “yes” to any of the above, Reflection might be for you! via GIPHY Reflection I’ve talked about reflection a … [Read more…]
Sometimes I find myself wanting a quick way to compare an enum with a list of other enums… Basically, if the enum is one of these, then do this. It’s pretty easy to do with Linq, but if you want to do it a few times in a few other places, it pays to be … [Read more…]