Recently I’ve been building out something that is very configurable. Tons of different settings, switches, numbers… you name it. Its nice to have things split out into areas of concern – that is, different interfaces identifying the configuration settings pertinent to a particular thing – but then you end up with all of these things … [Read more…]
Reflection is kind of like black magic, and whenever I use it I feel like some kind of wizard. The ability to look into objects and even invoke private methods is pretty darn powerful. It’s not all that magical, of course, since it is built into the framework… however, you should still be careful because … [Read more…]
I’ve found this guide on creating an Angular 4 inside of .NET core very helpful. One of the steps is to set up .NET core to serve static files: However, if you add routing to Angular 4, there’s an additional step that will allow your routes to resolve correctly in the angular application if a … [Read more…]
System.Collections.Concurrent provides a bunch of thread-safe collections that you can use when doing asynchronous programming without worrying about bad stuff happening. The simplest ones, ConcurrentBag<T> (which allows you to put stuff in and take things out in an unordered way) and ConcurrentDictionary<TKey, TValue> (a key/value set) are simple and easy to use, but there isn’t … [Read more…]
This is part of a somewhat broader topic of unit testing that I will probably cover more in depth later. Unit Testing Authentication on a Web API Controller At work I made a Web API Controller that has a POST method on it to allow someone to forcibly suspend another user’s session. This kind of … [Read more…]
In part one I described how to get a list of removable storage devices (memory cards, USB sticks, etc). In this part, we’re going to be able to pick a memory card and transfer the contents into a catch-all “vault.” Picking out good pictures will come in a later post; for now, we’re just going … [Read more…]
If you ever want to pull a version number out of a file’s name (like a NuGet package, for example), it is pretty easy with regex. Of course, I suck at regex. I always need to look up the syntax and even then I probably won’t get it right. So, anyway, here is the code … [Read more…]