Category: C# Blogs

Configuration error, targetFramework 4.7

Benjamin Perkins C#

I was deploying some code to one of my IIS servers and got this YSOD as seen in Figure 1.  I had coded in Visual Studio 2017 with the .NET Framework 4.7 targeted from my ASP.NET Web Forms application I wrote. Figure 1, Server Error, targetFramework=”4.7” Server Error in “/” Application. Configuration Error Description: An […]

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Targeting a specific version of the .NET Framework

Benjamin Perkins C#

I find numerous opinions and understandings about side-by-side and in-place installations of the .NET Framework.  Here is my favorite explanation of this “.NET Versioning and Multi-Targeting – .NET 4.5 is an in-place upgrade to .NET 4.0”.  I also link to that same article in one of my IIS labs here, “Lab 5: Basic and Advanced […]

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What is the current .NET version on an Azure App Service

Azure App Service Benjamin Perkins

I have an App Service here (currentdotnetversion) that shows the output of the current (when I wrote this article) .NET version using C# code.  Here is a partial code snippet: protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {    const string subkey = @”SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\Full\”;    using (RegistryKey ndpKey = RegistryKey.OpenBaseKey(RegistryHive.LocalMachine,           RegistryView.Registry32).OpenSubKey(subkey))    { […]

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CulturInfo not working as expected in C#

I have started working with Globalization and Localization functionality for a system I am building. I could not understand why, when I wanted to get the intellisense for the class that nothing showed up. After some time I decided to use the full name of the class to get to the methods like this: I […]

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Dynamic Type in C#, in comparison to var Type

Benjamin Perkins C#

Knowing the type of variable you are working with in C# and while programming in general is pretty important. You can’t add a double and an integer together and get an integer, without converting it. If you attempt to do this the compiler will throw an exception and you will not be able to run […]

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