Using Chocolatey Package Manager
Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows, much like apt-get on linux. Like all package managers, it allows you to easily install and upgrade applications. Note that not all applications are available, but many...
.Net Core 3.1 CORS
Cross Origin Resource Sharing centers on the fact that modern browsers won’t allow javascript programs running in them from making XHR requests to a foreign server unless the server expressly allows it. The browser...
How to Unlock a Locked Port in Windows 10
Now and then when developing an Angular SPA with Visual Studio Code, I lock up the default port, 4200. When this happens, you are told you can just reconfigure the app to use a...
Razor Component Callbacks
To communicate from a child razor component to the component that references it (the parent), pass the name of the callback function to the child component in much the same way you pass parameters....
Run MS SQL Server in a Docker Container
If you haven’t discovered Docker yet, you’re missing out. Docker is so popular you probably know it allows applications to run in lightweight containers similar to virtual machines but more nimble because the containers...
Using toastr.js
toastr.js/toastr.css lets you easily display self-hiding notifications easily in an HTML page. Get the files here, along with usage tips. https://github.com/CodeSeven/toastr Note that the javscript requires jQuery. In $(document).ready, you can initialize the toastr...
Warning! In C#, X + 1 does Not Necessarily Equal X + 1
In C#, when you add 1 to the largest value an Int32 can hold, you don’t get an error, you get a wrong answer. Below, we set max to the largest Int32 value possible....
Using .Net Core User Secrets to Hold Confidential Data
When programming most applications, there are some configuration items you’d rather not share with the world, for example when you push the repository to github. For example, a secret APIKey needed to access an...
Generic Class makes .NET Core HttpClient Calls (New!)
Note: This is an enhancement of the static HTTPClientHelper class introduced here. Here’s a new and improved class that abstracts HttpClient calls. You add the class to your dependency injection container and then just...
Using Swagger to Document your API in .Net Core 3.1
Swagger, a service you can inject into the middleware pipeline, automatically creates web pages that document your API and allow you to exercise its public elements. To add it to your API, do the...