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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I received the error ‘The string was not recognized as a valid DateTime. There is an unknown word starting at index 17’ on a server when trying to convert a Date and Time string to a DateTime, but I had no such error in development or testing. The […]
This article is about how to output the logging from Log4Net to a textbox. It assumes a basic knowledge of Log4Net. Create a Custom Appender Create this class in your project, it will automatically get picked up by the Configurator. This class implements the log4Net base appender and […]