A Blog About Random Computer Subjects
Frank DeCaire Introduction If you’ve ever written an API and used it in a real-world application, you’ll discover the need to make changes to enhance your software. The problem with changing an API is that once the interface has been published and used by other applications, the end points cannot be changed. The best way to deal … Read moreVersioning Your APIs
Introduction I’ve discussed using the in-memory Entity Framework unit tests in a previous post (here). In this post, I’m going to demonstrate a simple way to use Moq to unit test a method that uses Entity Framework Core. Setup For this sample, I used the POCOs, context and config files from this project (here). You … Read moreUnit Testing EF Data With Moq
Summary In this post, I’m going to explain a couple techniques and tools that every developer should know. If you are just graduating from college and you are looking for a .Net job, learn these simple techniques and advance your career. If you’re a mid-level to advanced .Net developer and you don’t know these tools … Read moreWhat .Net Developers Should Know about MS SQL and IIS
Story I’ve worked for a lot of different companies. Most of them small. Several of the companies that I have worked for have had some serious growth in their user base. Every company I have worked for seem to follow the same path from start-up to mid-sized company. Start-ups usually staffed by amateur programmers who … Read moreDeploying Software
Summary I’ve shown how to generate POCOs (Plain Old C# Objects) using the scaffold tool for .Net Core 1 in an earlier post. Now I’m going to show how to do it in Visual Studio 2017 with Core 2.0. Install NuGet Packages First, you’ll need to install the right NuGet Packages. I prefer to use … Read moreCreating POCOs in .Net Core 2.0
Summary In this post I’m going to show how you can improve developer productivity by steering developers to use scripts where it makes sense. Setting up IIS As a back-end developer, I spend a lot of time standing up and configuring new APIs. One of the tools I use to reduce the amount of man-hours … Read moreUsing Scripts
Summary In this post I’m going to demonstrate the proper way to serialize XML and setup unit tests using xUnit and .Net Core. I will also be using Visual Studio 2017. Generating XML JSON is rapidly taking over as the data encoding standard of choice. Unfortunately, government agencies are decades behind the technology curve and … Read moreXML Serialization
Introduction We’ve all modified and saved variables in the web.config and app.config files of our applications. I’m going to discuss issues that occur when a company maintains multiple environments. Environments When I talk about environments, I’m talking about entire systems that mimic the production system of a company. An example is a development environment, a … Read moreEnvironment Configuration
My wife and I recently took a vacation in Nevada so we could hike trails in parks surrounding Las Vegas. To get a sense of what we did on vacation you can check out the pictures on my hiking blog by clicking here (I lined up the post dates to be the date when we … Read moreRansomware
Why is there No Documentation? I’m surprised at the number of developers who don’t create any documentation. There are ways to self-document code and there are packages to add automatic help to an API to document the services. Unfortunately, that’s not enough. I’ve heard all the arguments: It chews up programming time. It rapidly becomes … Read moreDocumentation