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Speed up Visual Studio by turning off the Source Control Plug-in
I don’t use the built in source control plug in Visual Studio as I use GitKraken instead, so Visual Studio’s plug-in just sat in the background not doing...
Why is my app not responding? Oh… I’ve hit a breakpoint!
Have you ever run your app from Visual Studio to have it suddenly stop responding and you can’t immediately see why, only to discover that you’ve hit...
We don’t have the budget for that
Over 20 years ago, I was asked by the company I worked for to fly out and help a client with an issue. It seems that they had trouble printing in certain...
How to Undelete a Branch in Git
About a month ago I deleted a branch that I thought I wasn’t going to need. The ticket had been parked, then put back in the backlog and there were lots...
Why is there a difference between decimal 0 and 0.0?
They’re the same thing, right? Well, almost. The equality operator says they’re the same thing. But internally they’re not, and I’ll get to that in a...
ReSharper test runner still going after tests complete
I’ve been writing some tests and I got this message: [RIDER LOGO] Unit Test Runner The process ReSharperTestRunner64:26252 has finished running tests...
How to: Tell if a PowerShell script is running as the Administrator
This script gets the current Windows Identity, then queries it to find out if it has the appropriate role.
Ensure Controller actions/classes have authorisation
A couple of years ago I wrote a unit test to ensure that all our controller actions (or Controller classes) had appropriate authorisation set up. This...
Creating a Throttle with an ActionBlock – Addendum (Cancelling)
In my previous post I described how to create a throttle with an action block so you wouldn’t have too many tasks running simultaneously. But what if...
Creating a Throttle with ActionBlock
We have an application that needs to perform a repetitive task on many external services and record then aggregate the results. As the system has grown...
Comparing logically adjacent rows in a database table
If you have database table that stores something such as when an action occurred, it might be useful to work out how far apart these events are. It is...
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Node.js – Setting up a basic development environment
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Using Contracts to discover Liskov Substitution Principle Violations in C#
[...] . 1. Install the Code Contracts for .NET extension into Visual Studio. 2. Open Visual Studio and load the solution containing the projects you want to apply contracts to. 3. Open the [...]
Tip of the day: Quickly finding commented out code in C-like languages
[...] to search through the source code looking for a specific pattern. The following works for Visual Studio for searching C#. The same expression would also likely work in other similar languages where [...]
A better tracing routine
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Kendo UI: Paging and accessing the filtered results in javaScript
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Injecting a Dependency into an IHttpModule with Unity
[...] work just takes an HttpContextBase, which is easily mocked in a unit test. Filed under: Software Development Tagged: asp.net, ASP.NET MVC, Dependency Injection, IHttpModule, IoC, Unity [...]
Node.js with Express – Come to the dark side. We have cookies!
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Node.js with Express – Getting form data
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Loading coffeescript unit tests from separate files
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Unit testing with Coffeescript
[...] . This would not be recommended for production code, but does make life easier for running unit tests as the browser handles the compilation step for you. You can run coffeescript in the browser by [...]
Using Contracts to discover Liskov Substitution Principle Violations in C#
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Telerik’s Kendo UI Grid
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Kendo UI: parse – preprocessing data
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Kendo UI: Paging and accessing the filtered results in javaScript
[...] Moving on slightly from my last post on the Kendo UI Grid we’re going to take a wee look at paging and accessing the results of the filter in [...]
Node.js – Setting up a basic development environment
[...] text editor, IDEs are also available for writing node.js. IDE – Node.js Tools for Visual Studio There is a plug in for Visual Studio that is in beta (at the time of writing) which allows you [...]
Using Contracts to discover Liskov Substitution Principle Violations in C#
[...] . 1. Install the Code Contracts for .NET extension into Visual Studio. 2. Open Visual Studio and load the solution containing the projects you want to apply contracts to. 3. Open the [...]
Tip of the day: Quickly finding commented out code in C-like languages
[...] to search through the source code looking for a specific pattern. The following works for Visual Studio for searching C#. The same expression would also likely work in other similar languages where [...]
A better tracing routine
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