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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
I have found that I have been using the same error handled transaction quite a lot recently. So I wanted created this snippet to have the script easily accessible. My main goal with this snippet was to have it easily and quickly accessible, with only a few keystrokes. […]