“Code Tips” or “Programming” (both aliases for this term in my site’s taxonomy) is my category for whatever posts I’m able to come up with, that handle programming, code quality and/or handy workarounds. Is code directly involved? Then the post should be filed under here!
This is meant to distinguish posts from different things, like configuration or user analytics -related posts. Even tips of fixing Azure DevOps pipelines go elsewhere, because that’s not programming.
Ha – another one, that ended up being a simple fix, but since nobody actually explains it well, took me an hour to figure out. This post ended up being another example of my “I’m going to document every single fix that took me more than 10 minutes to figure…Continue reading How to fix Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.TagHelpers not being rendered!
This post describes how you can access your Entity Framework Core model classes and the database context in your Azure Functions. In my example I’m using EF Core 2.1, but the main principle should be the same for later versions as well. Please note, that I use Azure functions runtime…Continue reading How to access Entity Framework Core’s DbContext in an Azure Function?
Welp – another interesting error encountered while deploying Azure Functions to Azure. So, everything runs nicely locally, but when you deploy your well-tested, functional and pretty code to run them in the cloud, you’ll just get these ugly and unfriendly errors. Long story short, “Function compilation error” is what you’re…Continue reading Sudden “Function compilation error” for an Azure Function
Have you ever struggled to make your ASP.NET MVC views format your properties of type DateTime correctly? I have. And I’ve been shot in the leg by weird hacks made by both myself (just 6 months earlier) and someone else. .NET Date/DateTime formatting is an endless bag of funsies in…Continue reading How to format DateTimes in ASP.NET Core?
Every now and then, an API or a method call comes along, that you need to be very careful with. “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web.AddSupportedUILanguage()” seems to be one of them. In this post, I’ll try and document my findings and workarounds for said method! Issues and solutions
This article explains how you can access an Azure Function’s Application/Environment settings/variables from your C# code. Different versions of Azure Functions have different ways to access the Azure Function settings, but this page should explain the easiest way to get your application setting values for each Azure Functions version! While…Continue reading How to get application settings for your Azure Function App using C#?
Office 365 Planner is a neat tool for task management. However, when you, for whatever use case, need to form URLs that point you towards a single task (or a bucket, or a plan for that matter), you might run into trouble with how the URL is formed. Custom domains…Continue reading How to form links to Planner tasks
This post describes the easiest way to debug the issues that may stop your Seed-method in Configuration.cs from going through. This problem concerns typically your ASP.NET MVC projects, either on .NET Framework or .NET Core – the same basic idea should work for both situations. The solution here shows you,…Continue reading The easiest way to debug Seed-method in Code-first migrations in Entity Framework
This post describes a quick solution to launching a new Visual Studio instance for debugging the code. There are a lot of applications for this, but where I’ve found it exceptionally useful, has been in debugging the Entity Framework’s code-first migration (one of the ways for database initialization) Seed-method. It…Continue reading Launching a new debugger instance from code in Visual Studio
