About Michael Earls

Michael Earls

Michael Earls has been programming computers since 1982, when his parents bought him his first home computer - the TI-99/4A. He enjoys writing music and playing video games in his spare time.

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Better property names using the DataMember attribute

In my previous post, I demonstrated creating a class to serialize the data returned from the Lipsum.com JSON feed. I wasn't happy with the final result as it used JavaScript formatting for the property names (camel cased). I prefer…

Michael Earls 27 March 2016

development json C# .NET serialization

My presentation was accepted for the Atlanta Code Camp in October

I will be speaking at the 2015 Atlanta Code Camp on Saturday, October 24th. Developing Apps for the Pebble Smartwatch using Windows Azure You can get more information about the code camp and register on the Code Camp Website. It’…

Michael Earls 29 September 2015

.NET atlanta Azure Code Camp pebble

Decorating an enum with the Description attribute for later use in C# with .NET

I had the need today to set a string value based on the value of an enum. Rather than creating the following code: Edit: I added a generic method that works on all enums string myString = null; switch(myEnum) { case…

Michael Earls 11 May 2015

.NET C#

Upgrading ASP.NET Identity in NuGet

This morning, when I went to upgrade the Identity system in my MVC application from NuGet, I ran into issues. When I ran the application that attempted to access roles, I got an error that the model backing the dbContext…

Michael Earls 08 May 2015

.NET Code-First EntityFramework Identity

Calling DataBind() on a GridView within an UpdatePanel to handle a row delete command

I was working on maintaining a site that used a GridView within an UpdatePanel and had difficulties with the DataBind() call. I added a delete button (using a CommandField) to the grid and wired up the command logic to delete…

Michael Earls 07 January 2015

.NET ASP.NET C# VB.NET

.Net - Creating a generic extension of "Contains" to see if there's something in a generic collection

Update: Added reference links at bottom of entry. I was working with some code today and needed to see if a list of custom DTOs contained an object based on a string value I had. Here is my solution. Some…

Michael Earls 05 December 2014

.NET C# DTO Extension Methods featured Generics

Code Refactoring - Converting an array with blanks to a List in C#

Update: It seems I could have simply used StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries: userFunctions.AccessoryGroups = reader["AccessoryGroups"].ToString().Trim().Split(new[] { "|" }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).ToList(); to reduce it to a single line of code. I was writing some code the other day and I…

Michael Earls 03 December 2014

.NET C# Refactoring

Http Error 503 - Service Unavailable with .NET 4 - IIS

When trying to debug my web service today after upgrading the project to .NET 4, I was told by Visual Studio that it could not debug and to try running the project outside the browser. When I did, I received…

Michael Earls 11 September 2014

.NET ASP.NET IIS

About Michael Earls

Michael Earls

Michael Earls has been programming computers since 1982, when his parents bought him his first home computer - the TI-99/4A. He enjoys writing music and playing video games in his spare time.

My musical creations

Alternate Theme