I came across a requirement last week where users can associate additional email addresses to their account. Users will then have to confirm their additional email addresses. I added a new table in the database to accommodate this requirement. The table contains a PersonId column which is a foreign key to the Person table, an EmailAddress and EmailConfirmed … [Read more…]
I’m going to show how to perform integration test on an asynchronous method using Unit Test framework in Visual Studio 2015 using transaction scope. The idea is running each test method in a transaction scope and disposing it at the end of the test instead of completing the transaction. This will roll back any changes to … [Read more…]
I’m working on a side project where I use Entity Framework 6 for my data layer. I need to store an enum in the database as string rather than integer. This is because I don’t like having enum columns in database without meaningful value. Plus this also makes it easier to know what that enum … [Read more…]
Last week I ran into a problem at work when debugging, where autos and locals windows showed up but there was nothing there. I put a breakpoint and attached to a process to debug my web application as usual. However after the symbols loaded and hit the target breakpoint, the following happened. I then tried a quick watch on … [Read more…]
In preparation for this blog, I purchased a domain from GoDaddy. It is quite straightforward to configure the custom domain for a web app on Azure by following instructions from here. However I got the following error when navigating to the custom domain. I thought maybe that it takes some time for the DNS cache to update so I decided … [Read more…]