When working with a third party EDMS I needed to add a document using a multipart/related request. Having never done a multipart/related request before I did struggle at first, trying all sorts off methods. But then I stumbled across the System.Net.Http.MultipartContent – things often seem so simple when […]
I have had this error several times on different servers, and here are the steps that I recommend following to find and resolve the problem. Step 1 – Track down the source of the error One of the things I found with this error, is that it doesn’t […]
This article was written to help with upgrading a project built with log4j 1.x to using log4j 2.x, which I was asked to do. My brief on this task was to upgrade from log4j to log4j2 with minimal changes to the code base. Because of that brief I just […]
When I first started in software development, it wasn’t so common to have a dedicated systems or business analyst (well in the smaller firms anyway). For the first 10 years or so, my job title was something like Software Analyst/Developer. I did everything including analysis, design, development, testing/debugging, […]
In PowerApps a Choice field always shows as a dropdown, even when you select the ‘Checkboxes (allow multiple selections)’ option. This article is about how to change the default dropdown to a list of checkboxes. I have seen several ways of creating checkbox multivalued lists, but this way […]
I had a requirement to add a disclaimer message to a report that the user needs to agree to before they can see the report. My initial idea was to simply add it as a parameter, but the message was quite long and it looked terrible, so this […]
Log4Net has become somewhat a de facto standard for logging in .Net applications, and I personally have used it in nearly every application I’ve written for quite some time. Although .Net Core does have some baked in logging, if you prefer to use Log4Net (or need to), then […]
In this article I will run through a problem I overcame where I needed to query a JSON array of attributes for each a record. I was working on a Stored Procedure that was querying JSON using REPLACE, SUBSTRING and a number of CHARINDEX‘s for every attribute. This […]
My Problem I had a problem today when I worked on a Power Apps Form for applying for Training, Accommodation, and or Travel (any or all of these). There was a Purpose field in the form which the user can enter one to many possible options (Training, Accommodation, […]
This article was written for SQL 2014 Summary If you have an SSRS subscription that emails out a report, but there is a requirement to only send that report if there is data, then that should be easy enough to do, shouldn’t it? From what I’ve found so […]