For some reason I always thought that you needed to add a third party library to make a zip file in C#, but apparently you can do it easily with an API that already exists in the framework. via GIPHY ZipArchive All you need to do is create a file and associate the file stream … [Read more…]
C# has a Stopwatch class that is pretty accurate at timing things. In fact, it uses some low-level operating system stuff to make sure to get exact timings. This means it can be more accurate than comparing two different DateTime.Now instances. via GIPHY I’ve found myself using the Stopwatch occasionally, but it always is kind … [Read more…]
Recently I had a situation where I had a class and interface to make a generic service which would do something based on whatever type is provided. (Obviously, it was not so contrived…) These would then get injected to other classes to be used as necessary: Which works fine… as long as you remember to … [Read more…]
Autofac is a popular dependency injection library that I like to use because they’ve done a lot of legwork to get things to work nicely in .NET Core – (some DI frameworks were not happy with Microsoft’s decision to make a public abstraction for their own DI library). Modules If you have a big solution … [Read more…]
There are a bunch of different ways to do this, but sometimes I find myself wanting to run multiple web applications locally on different ports without fussing with configuration files, etc. And whenever I need to do this, I always have to look it up… but most of the posts out there are how to … [Read more…]
There’s been more than a couple times where I’ve wanted to use the Parallel class to take a collection and rip through it with multiple threads, but I’ve struggled with how to log the progress (especially the count of objects processed) easily. Interlocked .NET actually provides the solution in a static class called Interlocked, located … [Read more…]
If you find yourself writing a lot of the same code (or copy/pasting it) for similar constructs, you should probably consider using generics. It allows you to write a base class full of functionality that is basically the same across all of different classes, but in a way that doesn’t tie you to a specific … [Read more…]
Enums are useful because they help you avoid magic numbers. You can write your code in a way that is easy to read and understand from the human’s perspective, which, at the end of the day, is pretty important. Exposing enums on your Web API I want to share my enums with other things, notably … [Read more…]
Recently I had an issue where I was trying to create a stubbed/mocked version of a SOAP service locally. I ran my web application, my client connected, my service got the request, sent back the response and… the client didn’t like it. Not sure why… everything should be working. So I wanted to look at … [Read more…]
Recently I was having an issue where a parameter being passed in to my WebAPI call was not being populated correctly. Theoretically all you need to do is add [FromBody] to the route, and it will automatically populate the object from the HTTP message’s body… but that wasn’t working for me Turns out this IS … [Read more…]