Category Archives: .Net
Using an F# DSL to generate C# code
My current project is for a company called HDMP (The website is in Dutch / French). We make software for medical practitioners. I am working on a service that communicates with web services created by the Belgian government. The services … Continue reading
Sending notifications with Corona updates to thousands of doctors
During the Corona crisis, our (Belgian) government sends out regular updates for medical professionals. I created a small UWP app that will notify all the subscribed doctors when new information is available. The doctors can download and install this application … Continue reading
How to use Microsoft Azure Key Vault
Introduction In this post I will describe how to set up and use an Azure key vault to store your secret values. Sometimes we see secrets like storage keys and connection strings written as literals in the code of a … Continue reading
Creating a Visio Add-In in VS2017
Problem statement A good friend asked me the following question: How can I in Visio change the color to a previously selected color just by selecting a shape? Sounds simple enough, but there are some caveats, so here is my … Continue reading
Areas in ASP.NET Core
Introduction In a default MVC application everything is organized by Controllers and Views. The controller name determines the first part of your URL, and the controller method the second part. By default the view that will be rendered has the … Continue reading
Automating the creation of NuGet packages with different .NET versions
Introduction I created a couple of straightforward libraries to be used in almost every project. So evidently these libraries are a good candidate for NuGet. This will decouple the libraries from the projects that they are used in. It also … Continue reading
Implementing the Excel Simulator in F#
Introduction In my previous post we talked about how to structure an Excel workbook to make it easy to perform changes. As a side effect we have now a good idea of what is the data, and what is the … Continue reading
Knockout, self, this, TypeScript. Are you still following?
Introduction I’m working on an MVC application with simple CRUD operations. I want the following functionality (don’t mind the Flemish (Dutch) titles): Remember, I’m “graphically handicapped”, so I’m afraid that my users will have to do with the standard Bootstrap … Continue reading
Structuring an MVC app for easy testing
Introduction In this article I want to give you some handles to structure your MVC applications in such a way that they become easier to test. The article isn’t really about MVC, but if you want more information on MVC, I … Continue reading
Unit Testing your Repositories–the code
In the previous post I started to write about how to set up your unit tests in the repository code. The title was (maybe a bit misleading) “Unit testing your Repositories”. So I had to promise to write an article … Continue reading
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