In the world of software development, the terms “Agile” and “Scrum” are often used interchangeably. However, it’s crucial to understand that while all Scrum practices are Agile, not all Agile practices are Scrum. Let’s explore the differences between Agile and Scrum and why practicing Agile doesn’t necessarily mean […]
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 […]