Archive for August, 2018

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Azure Functions Benjamin Perkins

While I was writing these articles about creating, developing local and deploying an Azure Function App, I received this error, Figure 1. How to create an Azure Function in Visual Studio How to connect to a database from an Azure Function Deploy an Azure Function created from Visual Studio Check out all my Azure Functions […]

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Azure Functions Benjamin Perkins

While I was writing these articles about creating, developing local and deploying an Azure Function App, I received this error, Figure 1. How to create an Azure Function in Visual Studio How to connect to a database from an Azure Function Deploy an Azure Function created from Visual Studio Check out all my Azure Functions […]

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How to create a Pie chart using ASP.Net and C#

Since .Net 4.0, we no longer need to download and install the Chart Control to get charting capabilities in ASP.Net, Window Forms or WPF. This is becuase the the Charting control is now part of .Net 4.0 itself. Although all you need to know about Charting in ASP.Net can be found here I thought I […]

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Add an XML Schema file to Visual Studio

Benjamin Perkins C#

XML Schema files (.xsd) are files which provide data for IntelliSense and are often provided along with a 3rd party class library. In case you are not familiar with IntelliSense, it is a functionality that helps you develop or configure a system by providing a list of existing methods or properties which are asscoiated to […]

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String vs. StringBuilder

Benjamin Perkins C#

A blog would not be complete without an article about the differences between appending or modifying a string using the String Class versus the StingBuilder class. See, strings are immutable, which means once they are created they cannot be changed. Any time you make a modification to a string, after is has been created you […]

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