Intro I have been a developer for somewhere around 30 years now. In my time I have created a few thousand projects of varying sizes, and for every new iteration I try to improve slightly on my previous. I also see a lot of code from others, and most what I see don’t seem care much about project… Read More »
Identity Framework 3 is in release candidate along with ASP.Net 5. The problem I set up a web project in ASP.Net 5 and created a controller for user import. It’s just some simple code that attempts to add multiple users. Adding a single user works great, but if I attempt to perform multiple operations in one go I… Read More »
Visual Studio 2015 with ASP.Net 5 doesn’t support Areas in the GUI editor. Hopefully that will come, but until then here is a simple workaround. Create folder structure In the root of your project (not wwwroot) create the folder structure for Areas manually. In this example I created an area named “Foobar”. Edit Startup.cs to add routes for… Read More »
Most projects that is deployed into production require some kind of config change upon deployment. Often it is the connection string that varies, but it can be any number of custom settings. Forgetting to change the config file when deploying, or forgetting to change config back on your dev machine after deploying can have disastrous consequences. Back in… Read More »
In .Net the MVC pattern is implemented through a template project. The project is set up for you when you create a new MVC application and imposes certain patterns on you. And that is exactly what MVC is, a pattern. By default you will create a controller, a view and a model. Usually you add scripts to that… Read More »
For most ASP.Net applications I make I add some code that emails me any unhandled exceptions. This way I immediately know when something has gone wrong with an application. The email contains a lot of useful information, including a MiniDump of the process. If you are not familiar with it, a MiniDump is a snapshot of the process… Read More »
log4net http://logging.apache.org/log4net/ Description Free popular logging system developed by Apache Foundation. Difficulty 1 line at top of each class. A standard XML-section in web.config. Sample usage: Sample web.config: Advantages Easily configured in web.config to filter what to log. Can write log to text-file, SQL, Trace, ASP.Net Trace, Event Log, SMTP (E-mail), etc. Has several levels based on severity… Read More »
http://nini.sourceforge.net/ Nini Description An uncommonly powerful .NET configuration library. Use this for reading web.config (instead of .Net built-in System.Configuration…) and any other .ini-file or .xml-file containing configuration. Difficulty 2 lines to read (usually called at page_load or similar). Sample usage: Advantages Automatic type conversion (GetString, GetInt, GetBool, etc). Configuration can be both read and written to. Can… Read More »