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You have at least two options for adding processing to multiple controllers without duplicating code in each of the Controllers.
10/23/2018
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Eric Vogel shows how to create a new ASP.NET Core Web application using Visual Studio 2017.
10/18/2018
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You have a bunch of options for debugging Android applications built with Xamarin. Unfortunately, only one of them has worked well for Peter in all scenarios. Here are all your options with Peter's opinion on each and a recommendation on the best one.
10/08/2018
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You've got a class that accepts an object from a client (perhaps, that class is an ASP.NET MVC Controller). Here's the simplest way to update the related Entity Framework object with the client's data before saving it to your database.
10/04/2018
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Peter thinks he's a bad person for even mentioning this tip. But, he claims, sometimes your best option in testing is to look at the internal state of the code under test. PrivateObject and PrivateType will let you do that.
10/03/2018
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If you want to call Blazor .NET code from JavaScript (or vice versa) with instantiated objects, or while passing multiple parameters, or while catching the results produced by that code, here's how to do it.
10/01/2018
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You're probably perfectly happy with the layout of windows that Visual Studio is giving you (it's whatever window layout you last used). But if you think there's a more optimal layout, it's easy to change. And if there's a couple of layouts you like ... well, you can have them, also.
09/27/2018
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You're not a DBA but you're responsible for managing your organization's SQL Server installation. Here are some tips on what you can do to speed up all your data access.
09/26/2018
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The OpenAPI (Swagger) technology suite includes a file that describes your Web API service. Peter thinks it's the slickest tool available to ensure that clients can access your services.
09/24/2018
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Model binding works great ... but it sometimes lets me down. In those cases you need to tell model binding to do the right thing. Here's an attribute that will let you know when you're missing non-nullable data and do it without interfering with your data design.
09/17/2018
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By Chris Sainty
Chris Sainty provides hands-on code samples on how to use Web APIs to interact with Blazor, an experimental framework from the ASP.NET team that allows developers to write C# and Razor code and have it run in the browser via WebAssembly.
09/13/2018
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There are five design patterns you'll use every time you create a smartphone application. One is imposed by the environment and one is a pattern that you've probably been avoiding when creating other kinds of applications.
08/31/2018
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That understanding should drive how you deal with testing, including how to turn it into a value-added task.
08/29/2018
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If you want to impress your boss (or client) with your diligence in generating documentation for your Web Service, then you need Swagger. That it will also make it easier for you to run tests on your service and check for typical errors is just icing on the cake.
08/13/2018
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Blazor is the Microsoft toolset that exploits the WebAssembly standard to let you write C# code that will run in your browser. Here's how to set up Visual Studio 2017 and create your first app.
08/01/2018
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Here's a step-by-step guide to creating a Xamarin project in Visual Studio 2017.
06/20/2018
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Here's how to avoid the frustration of discovering that you've made changes to a file you can't change in Visual Studio.
06/20/2018
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While the DbContext object has a Dispose method, you don't really need to use it ... with one exception.
06/18/2018
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ASP.NET code gives you enhanced ability to rewrite URLs to redirect client requests. But that leads to a key question: When should you use this new ability?
06/18/2018
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Here's what you need to know before you create your first Xamarin application to run on a smartphone or a tablet.
06/07/2018
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Your DELETE request to the service just timed out. Surely, it's safe to send it again. Actually, it may not be.
05/30/2018
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By Greg Shackles
New support for styling Xamarin.Forms apps with CSS may be controversial, but Greg Shackles thinks CSS is a powerful (and frequently maligned) solution to the problem of styling native mobile applications. See what he means in this hands-on tutorial.
05/29/2018
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Your update request to the service just timed out. Is it safe to send it again? Maybe. Here's how to ensure that all your update, delete and add requests are safe plus some advice on what you should really be calling them and handling concurrency.
05/29/2018
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Building cross-platforms applications has never been easier using Microsoft's Xamarin.Forms. In this article Nick introduces v6 of MvvmCross and shows how it can be leveraged to accelerate development and improve the architecture of a Xamarin.Forms application.
05/16/2018
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If you like the idea of creating a new class from whatever other classes you have lying around, you have two ways of doing in TypeScript ... and both are type safe (within limits).
05/01/2018