In a project I recently joined, the team uses React for the front-end. They have a Gulp task which compiles jsx files to js files and minify them. The Gulp task also appends a version number at the end of the minified js file’s name. I notice that the front-end developer has to manually increment this version … [Read more…]
There are many places in the code in the project I’m working on where HttpContext.Current.User is used to get id of the currently logged in user. This can be tricky when it comes to unit testing functions using the HttpContext. One of the way to get around this is to mock the HttpContext by manually creating the identity. … [Read more…]
In my previous post, I showed how to connect to FTP server via Azure Webjob. In this post, I’m going to show how to inject dependency in Azure Webjob using Unity. Azure Webjob uses a JobActivator to create instances of job classes. A custom job activator can be used to resolve any dependencies when creating instances. To … [Read more…]
In my last project, the client wants their files, once uploaded to the FTP server, processed and imported into their database. Previously, I would implement a windows service and install it on the FTP server. However, since the FTP server is hosted on Azure as a virtual machine so I decided to implement an Azure … [Read more…]
I had built a web API endpoint for file upload before in the past using a custom media type formatter. Last week I had to build a web API endpoint for another project. This time, I decided to implement this a little differently by reading the file in the content from request. The old way In … [Read more…]
In my last post, I talked about a nuget package called T4MVC. In this post, I’m going to show how to show active menu item in MVC 5 with the help of T4MVC. The problem When starting the default MVC web application from Visual Studio, the main navigation menu does not show the active menu item … [Read more…]
I recently discover a nuget package called T4MVC and it has become a must-have on my tool belt. T4MVC helps eliminating magic strings in MVC and support strongly typed ActionResults. See their project site here. In MVC, you have to use magic strings when specifying an action link. E.g. @Html.ActionLink(“View detail”, “Detail”, “Article”, new { id … [Read more…]
Microsoft has replaced child actions in previous MVC versions with View Components in MVC 6. Child actions are useful for when you want to build reusable widgets but they have their own limitations, one those I mentioned in my last post. View components are similar to child actions but are lighter weight. Create a view component … [Read more…]
I have a need for creating a child action in a controller in my side project. I’ve been using async everywhere else in the application so it’s obvious that I’m going to make this child action async. My child action is similar to the example below: [ChildActionOnly] public async Task<ActionResult> SampleChildAction() { // Call an asynchronous … [Read more…]
I build a page that displays a list of items with pagination. When users click on the pager, an ajax call is made to get the items for the next page and only the list is updated. I expect to see only one call to the database to get the next set of items when … [Read more…]