The old, well-loved, well-worn Windows-only version of .NET
Had some big JSON returned from a Web API project I was developing, Swagger was taking FOREVER (More than 20 minutes!) to display the returned data.
There are many reasons you may need to know/use/track the IP that an incoming request came from. Turns out it's not too hard, but a little sloppy, would think there's a better way to get it than inspecting server variables by name, but here we are.
Need to upgrade legacy .NET Framework apps to .NET Core? This article goes over the big changes between the old and the new along with examples of commonly encountered issues and ways to mitigate them. Also a link to an entire free eBook (Porting existing ASP.NET Apps to .NET Core) [PDF] as well.
Developing containerized microservice applications means you are building multi-container applications. However, a multi-container application could also be simpler—for example, a three-tier application—and might not be built using a microservice architecture.
Cool, this is an awesome feature! However, I've been using "real' visual studio for almost 20 years. And really struggling with the lack of anything visual with it. I keep trying to understand what people mean when they say it's not an ide. I'm sorta old. I grew up in the dos days. [Technically C64 days].) I'm used to typing in complex commands. I once wrote a bbs from scratch in turbo pascal. I'm used to typing in complex commands. In the old days, (you'd grab yer fiddle and dosey doe. Er, umm...)I learned a pure text way of life. But I learned visual studio VISUALLY. Maybe I'm lame but I'm used to visual studio doing a lot of boilerplate for me. Stuff that would take a few seconds of submenu clicking, then on to the actual task I need to complete. Instead with vscore I spend all this time searching, reading, trying, getting frustrated, then going back to regular vs 2019 pro and getting to work. A good editor, but it's about Damn time for a Linux version of the real visual studio!
Why something like this isn't built into .NET, I have no idea. But several places I've worked at have had variations on this to make development easier. So here's my implementation of it:
So SQL Server Management Studio has a Dark Theme included. But it's still not fully endorsed by Microsoft, so it's weirdly hidden.
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock is the geek version of the classic Rock, Paper, Scissors game. Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock is created by Sam Kass and Karen Bryla.
JSON has a weird text format. Here's how to easily convert to it from a C# DateTime:
If you need to search all tables in a SQL Server database to find any tables that have a certain field name, this script comes in really handy.
The Repository Pattern is very popular these days. In some environments you will be shredded as a know-nothing if you don't use it for every possible project that involves data storage. And not to knock it, when it was first described, it solved a lot of problems with keeping the code involved with database communication organized and maintainable.
Article 1: Singleton Design Pattern in C#
This is pretty neat, I have always played around with building a StreamWriter to write to a text file, but now you can do it with one line of code:
When using the code first option for Entity Framework, in order to control the length of varchar and nvarchar fields on the actual generated database, you can use one of the two approaches:
....you think a SOAP message is a nice way to tell someone he needs to take a shower.
Found a excellent set of examples of the basic techniques of LINQ to SQL. Very helpful on those days when you just can't remember those tricky incantations.
While you'd think something like the following code would work, it doesn't and fails with a frustrating "No constructor defined" error:
Quite a few times, I've needed to create a new row in a table obtained from a web service.
Not really sure why'd you'd do such a thing these days, but C# does support GOTO, so this guy used it to do a line-by-line conversion of an ancient Star Trek written in BASIC in 1972.
This is a conversion to VB.NET from the message I posted a while back under the C# MessageBase.
Finally found out how to do it! Have been searching (for months) for a way to handle events from buttons dynamically created by code inside a table in ASP.NET. Couldn't find anyone that knew how to do it, couldn't find any web pages with what I was looking for. Got a lot of answers back from posts on other C# message boards, but none of them were correct. I even had several people say that the ability to do so was not present in ASP.NET 1.1 and I'd have to wait and hope it showed up in ASP.NET 2.0. I had actually given up and believed them for a few months. But decided to jump back into it today and found the correct way of doing so after piecing together clues from all over the web. :)
So now, I'm going to try and explain it the best I can, in my own words so that anyone out there chasing down the same concept doesn't get stuck spinning their wheels like I did.
First of all, it's actually embarrassingly simple in retrospect, but getting there was the real trick. I feel kind of stupid admitting it took me so long to figure it out, but I know I'm not alone - I talked with a lot of people on the net and everyone seemed lost as I was so...
The big trick is to use delegates. That's what slowed me down so much, as most explanations of delegates rely on referencing function pointers in C++, which I've never done a whole lot of C++ and never anything using function pointers, so the explanations did nothing for me.
Even worse, the explanations about delegates always involve declaring a delegate and the example code to do so. Normally declaring a delegate is a GOOD thing. However, in the case what I was trying to do (Deal with the click event from the System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button object) there were two things wrong!!
1. The delegate for handling the click event for a Button, LinkButton, or ImageButton (And only these) is ALREADY DEFINED BY THE SYSTEM. That means that you don't have to create the definition, nor can you look at the code for the definition (Other than in the MSDN documentation), and if you try to create your own, you get all kinds of problems. The pre-defined delegate is called CommandEventHandler. More on that after point 2.
2. I said I was trying to work with the Click event. (Oops) With a Button, LinkButton, or ImageButton you don't want to mess with the Click event (although it is there just like it is for all the other GUI objects, so finding out there's something better to use is even better) - You want to use a different event that only exists for the (you guessed it) Button, LinkButton, and ImageButton objects. This event is called Command. It fires the same as the Click event, but allows you to pass additional data via the Button.CommandArgument property. (The normal Click event does not support sending this additional data, thus why you should use the Command event instead of the Click event, unless you just need to see if a button was clicked and do not need any additional data about the click.)
OK, with those two misconceptions out of the way, let's actually get into how to do this:
All you really need to do is create a method that requires two objects sent to it when invoked. The first is the 'sender' object, which identifies which object is calling it (The button itself) and another object called 'CommandEventArgs'. So create a method such as:
ButtonHandler(object sender, CommandEventArgs e)
{
// Do something
}
Now, the next thing to do is register the method with the Button.Command event via the pre-defined delegate CommandEventHandler. Say we have a button called newButton. We attach the ButtonHandler method to the Command event of newButton with the following code:
newButton.Command += new CommandEventHandler(ButtonHandler);
Then, with any additional data you need to send to the ButtonHandler method, you add it to the Button.CommandArgument property and it will be sent as part of the CommandEventArgs object that is passed via the delegate. CommandArgument only accepts a string value, so any numerical data to be sent needs to be converted to a string first. In the code example at the end of this article, I am sending both the X and Y position of the table separated by a colon. Since it's a single string, formatting of that string is up to you.
Hopefully this account of my misadventures helps you out!
To try the following example, simply create a new web form, then drag an empty Table from underneath Web Forms in the toolbox to the new form (Leave it named the default name of Table1). Next, drag a label to the same webform, and set its name (ID under properties) to lblInfo.
Here's the example code, enjoy:
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.SessionState;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;