ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET, Azure, SharePoint, IoT
Working on some threading stuff I stumbled upon some discussions about lock and Monitor. Some say they are different and some say they are the same. I took few minutes of time to make some simple experiments with both of these. This blog post shows what C# compiler does with lock statement. As I had to use also Monitor class I added one example here how to use it instead of lock.
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After one of latest Visual Studio 2017 I noticed that tab length is incorrect in C# editor. I went through options and confirmed that tab size for C# was set to four spaces. But still for some reason editor used two as tab size. There have been some small changes how Visual Studio 2017 prioritizes settings and here is how to solve the mess.
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It has been problematic to run ASP.NET Core applications on Windows 10 IoT Core as it is not officially supported scenario yet and many components we are used with are not built with Windows 10 ARM in mind. Still it easy to run web applications on Windows 10 IoT Core using ASP.NET Core 2. There are few tricks developers should know when building web applications for Windows 10 IoT Core. This blog post is short guide about ASP.NET Core 2 on Windows 10 IoT Core
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Over time my home network has grown and years are changed also the habits of consuming media at home. When I bought Asus RT-N66U some years ago it was well performing home router. Now came the point when continuing the old way was not an option anymore as things were degraded a lot. Performance boost was needed and here is what I did to get my veteran router back on track.
Read moreC# 7.1 introduces asynchronous Main method for console applications. It helps us to get rid of some ugly code to await for asynchronous methods. If Main method of console applications is application flow controller that makes multiple calls to asynchronous methods then async Main leads us to much cleaner code. This blog post is my deep dive to async Main.
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Microsoft Cognitive Services offers us computer vision services to describe images and to detect printed or handwritten text. Text recognition provides interesting scenarios like cloud based OCR or providing automated translations for texts on images. This blog post focuses on recognizing printed text using Azure Computer Vision API.
Read moreWindows 10 has something called Windows Subsystem for Linux and this something enables us to run Linux applications on Windows 10 using Linux without need for Hyper-V or other virtual machines. When building multi-platform applications like my open-source TemperatureStation solution then having Linux right there for testing comes very handy. This blog post shows how to get Linux running on Windows, how to install .NET Core and how to run web applications on Linux.
Read moreASP.NET Core introduces Node services that allow applications to run Node scripts on server. We can send data from controller action to Node script and get back some output we can use in view. This blog post shows how to use Node services to render d3.js charts on server-side to PNG files.
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Another day, another surprise on .NET Core. Tried to load a file with Windows-1252 encoding and got the following exception: NotSupportedException: No data is available for encoding 1252. For information on defining a custom encoding, see the documentation for the Encoding.RegisterProvider method. Here’s how to solve the problem.
Read moreWhen running ASP.NET Core on IIS one may get weird error Application ‘
In multi-tenant applications where tenants share same data store cross-tenant operations must be avoided. There are many ways how bugs like this can happen. Be it hard to debug threading issue or some other complex situation, it is better when application components are ready for this kind of situations and better fail instead of going to glory end with illegal operations. This blog post introduces defensive database context that throws exception when data from other tenants is about to be updated.
Read moreMy saga on supporting multiple tenants in ASP.NET Core web applications has come to point where tenants can use separate databases. It’s time now to write some tests for data context to make sure it behaves correct in unexpected situations. This post covers unit tests for data context and multi-tenancy.
Read moreMy last post about multi-tenants applications with ASP.NET Core Implementing database per tenant strategy on ASP.NET Core I proposed some ideas about tenant providers but I didn’t focused on issues related to missing tenants. This post proposes missing tenant middleware that redirects faulty requests to some public page of company web site.
Read moreLet’s continue with multi-tenancy in ASP.NET Core web applications and focus on solutions where every tenant has its own database. It’s not only about database – there can be more services where every tenant has its own instance. It makes solution provided here easily extendable to also other services besides SQL Server or any other relational database.
Read moreIn my previous post about global query filters in Entity Framework 2.0 I proposed an idea how to automatically apply filters to all entities so they are always coming from same tenant. This post digs deeper to possible solutions for detecting current tenant in ASP.NET Core we applications.
Read moreThere are not much examples available about ASP.NET Core and acquiring access token. I found good and pretty big sample by Microsoft Patterns & Practices called multitenant-saas-guidance, Based on this I wrote my simple “boiler plate” ASP.NET Core solution that authenticates against Azure Active Directory and asks current user data using Microsoft Graph.
Read moreI have page in SharePoint where users can search for specific type of items and see different results in Search Results Web Parts. The page I have has eight results web parts and when nothing is found I want to keep results web parts laconic and minimal so they don’t waste space on screen.
Read moreMy previous post about ASP.NET Core and getting C# enums to JavaScript was primitive and used simple attribute on enums to detect ones we need in JavaScript. This blog post extends the idea and makes some generalizations to support also those enums that are located in the libraries we don’t control or on what we don’t want to apply attribute.
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Entity Framework Core 2.0 introduces global query filters that can be applied to entities when model is created. It makes
Read moreEntity Framework Core 2.0 was announces yesterday and it brings some new and cool features. One of them is SQL Like-operator we can use now using directly in our code. Here is the example of using new Like-operator.
Read moreIn my previous posts about enums I covered how to convert C# enums to JavaScript on classic ASP.NET MVC. This blog post introduces how to do it on ASP.NET Core using simple view component.
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