Programming Create a simple IRC Bot with .NET Core by Michael Earls I had an urge to write a simple IRC chat bot with .NET core. Why? Just because I could. I wanted a quick project for the night, so I figured out how to
.NET .NET Beyond the Demos - Part 2 - The Architecture by Michael Earls In order for me to communicate this particular story, I first need to outline the overall architecture. At the highest structural level, the architecture is really quite simple. Let's start there and work our way down.
C# .NET Beyond the Demos - Part 1 by Michael Earls I like code demos. They're good for getting you familiar with how a specific technology works. However, many times, it's hard to get a feel for how different technologies work together to create a larger ecosystem in the enterprise environment.
Programming Getting your head around ASP.NET MVC(Model-View-Controller) CORE by Jeff Tyler When I made the switch from Web Forms to MVC a few years back. I thought my head was going to explode. It's loose coupling allows it to do a lot of magic
Entity Framework Entity Framework Composable Queries using LinqKit by Jeff Tyler One of the biggest drawbacks to SQL is the inability to reuse pieces of a query. Technically you can create views but then you wind up joining views to views consuming views and
.NET Core Running a .NET Core 2.0 WebApi app on the Raspberry Pi (Raspbian) by Michael Earls I wanted to create a web api app that answered calls on my Raspberry Pi. The first step I learned was how to install and configure .NET core 2.0 on the Raspberry
Programming C# Introduction to Expression Trees by Jeff Tyler Recently I was in a situation where I needed to write my own expression trees to be consumed by Entity Framework. I thought that it would be a good opportunity to pass what
Programming Better property names using the DataMember attribute by Michael Earls 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
.NET My presentation was accepted for the Atlanta Code Camp in October by Michael Earls 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
.NET Decorating an enum with the Description attribute for later use in C# with .NET by Michael Earls 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
.NET Upgrading ASP.NET Identity in NuGet by Michael Earls 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
.NET Calling DataBind() on a GridView within an UpdatePanel to handle a row delete command by Michael Earls 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
.NET .Net - Creating a generic extension of "Contains" to see if there's something in a generic collection by Michael Earls 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
.NET Code Refactoring - Converting an array with blanks to a List in C# by Michael Earls 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
.NET Http Error 503 - Service Unavailable with .NET 4 - IIS by Michael Earls 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
.NET Refactoring some common VB.NET Code by Michael Earls One of my tasks at work is to maintain a few VB.NET applications written before I started working here. I’ve had the opportunity to learn a lot about large websites using
.NET Remote Debugging Issue with ASP.NET - Unable to attach to the process by Michael Earls I have been trying to get remote debugging working on one of our servers so we can share the development work on a WebAPI and I kept getting the following error message on
