David Anderson is a software engineer with expertise in C#, .NET and other Microsoft technologies, and this is his blog.
The scenario is I have a ASP.NET application (full framework) as the main application that is hosted in IIS. During development, it is hosted in IIS Express under http://localhost:51077. I also have a ASP.NET Core application that is used as…
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Kendo UI provides a simple and powerful MVVM framework through their observable object and binding in the DOM. To create a basic viewmodel the syntax is very simple, and this is how their documentation educates you to create your viewmodels….
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For systems that are CRUD heavy, Active Record is still not a bad pattern of choice for some of your objects. While today it is avoided in much larger applications, I wouldn’t deem it as obsolete, and when used right,…
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I’m going to walk you through configuring ASP.NET Core Identity to use your own database schema instead of the default tables and columns provided. Doing this only changes the schema, so it still allows you to rely on password hashing,…
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In TDD, you will need to test for various inputs based on some condition. For example, we have a class that is responsible for generating dynamic SQL for a reporting system that allows the user to select from various operators….
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To build SSDT projects with a build server you can use devenv.com or devenv.exe, but not MSBuild.exe because it is not supported by the SSDT tools for Visual Studio 2015. Unfortunately that means installing a licensed copy of Visual Studio…
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Before proceeding, I am going to state that I will talk about multi-threading with a user interface in a different blog. It warrants its own post, so here we will focus on pure threading concepts. At some point in your…
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3 of 9 barcodes are just about everywhere, and are one of the easiest barcodes to work with being widely supported by many SDK’s. 3 of 9 originally supported only a subset of the ASCII character set, and later was…
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I am using Web API 2 in my ASP.NET MVC 5 project, and I found myself needing custom routes very quickly. In my scenario I’m building a single-page application using AngularJS, so all the data is received and sent to and…
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My two MVVM video series` on YouTube have become very popular, and I have every intention of continuing getting more information out there on MVVM through my Enterprise series. If you haven’t had a chance to check out the videos,…
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