The release of .NET Standard has been officially announced here. I looked for a way to update .NET Standard to version 2.0 as I could see it was not installed on my workstation. As shown in Figure 1, I only had version 1.0 – 1.6 installed. Figure 1, how to upgrade, install new version of […]
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The release of .NET Core has been officially announced here. I looked for a way to update .NET Core to version 2.0 as I could see it was not installed on my workstation. As shown in Figure 1, I only had version 1.0 and 1.1 installed. Figure 1, how to upgrade, install new version of […]
Read More →I was doing some code that checks the number of network round trips to the database within a single transaction. I was coding it using WPF in C#. What I wanted to do was set the image in the Status Bar to a green image if the transaction took 1 trip, a yellow image if […]
Read More →I was working with the EF NuGet package Microsoft.EntityFramework.Tools.DotNet and executed the command-line interface (CLI), also shown in Figure 1. dotnet ef database drop Running this method resulted in the same behavior: context.Database.EnsureDeleted(); Figure 1, Entity Framework Core, CLI I am not sure what exactly I was thinking, but it I did not really expect […]
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This is another one, Figure 1, that just kind of happened because I dropped my database. Once I re-created the database and my ASP.NET Core application could access it, all was back to normal. Figure 1, ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT environment variable to Development, and restarting the application. Error. An error occurred while processing your request. Development Mode […]
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As mentioned in a previous blog, using Lucene.Net to create and search an index was quick and easy. Here I will show you in these 4 steps how to do it. Create an index Build the query Perform the search Display the results Before we get started I wanted to mention that Lucene.Net was originally […]
Read More →The path to reproducing a scenario for a custom is sometimes a long-ish one. I needed to include a custom assembly in an Azure Function App which I describe here “How to add assembly references to an Azure Function App” and documented this one here “Could not load file or assembly” along the way here […]
Read More →I wrote this article here about setting up GitHub in Visual Studio 2015 and felt it necessary to document the same in Visual Studio 2017. Here is how I setup GitHub source code management in Visual Studio 2017 Community. Install the GitHub extension for Visual Studio Create your GitHub repo and then login Create a […]
Read More →I was working with Visual Studio 2017 and found that 4.6.2 is not installed as default yet, so I wrote this article here about that. In that article I also point out that you need to install the System.ValueType NuGet package to the Tuples capabilities to work. This time I wanted to get the Pattern […]
Read More →Catching exceptions within your code make a huge difference in how your program will be perceived from a user. If you do not catch the exception then in many cases your program will crash and be required to close and then reopened. However, if you catch exceptions you can handle them gracefully. You gracefully recover […]
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