Sometimes, when trying to debug an MVC method, you need to inspect what the app is receiving from the client. You could use a sniffer, like WireShark, but I believe there is an easier way. The Problem Some time ago I was tasked with integrating with a third […]
I’ve been watching a lot of the Microsoft Ignite presentations and their focus has been on AI, which reminded me to that I need to replace my site icon (which was a Danger Mouse icon). So I decided to use the Bing to trial its image generation. I […]
I had an error when using Dependency Injection in a Console App. I was trying to access the configuration to get a section or a connection string, and the result was always null. The article relates only to the use of Host.CreateDefaultBuilder(). in a Console Application. The Problem […]
I create a lot of Console applications, mainly for prototypes or small one-off jobs, but sometimes I want to to do more. For those applications I want to use Dependency Injection and things like appsettings and Entity Framework. To save time on trying to remember how to do […]
I was asked to get a list of customers with a single address for each, and preferably the Postal address if the customer has one. Getting the first record is easy enough with a MIN function, but when you have to add an ORDER BY or GROUP BY […]
Convert a JSON array of objects to Key Value pairs so you can access the value by the key.
Because I have previously written 2 articles with my own code for working with CSV files, I thought it was time I did a comparison between my own simple code and the most common Nuget package, CsvHelper. The articles I have previously written are What is CsvHelper CsvHelper […]
In this article I will show a bit of code I wrote to parse a CSV file to a list of defined objects. There are a lot of really good CSV readers out there and I don’t intend on adding one more to that mix, but I often […]
This article is about how to add and use custom configuration settings in a .Net Core App with Dependency Injection. In my example I am setting various data access information in the app settings that I may or may not need in the depths of my application. Step […]
This article came about from the following question… Why are the user details blank when running my PowerApp, but they are populated when editing it? This happened to me in 2 scenarios, Using the current users details to get their supervisor, but the supervisors’ details were not showing. […]