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.