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. […]
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, […]