I’m going to show how to get the value from the Description attribute on each enum. We have the following enum as an example public enum MonthOfYear { [Description(“First month of the year”)] January, [Description(“Second month of the year”)] February, [Description(“Third month of the year”)] March // … and so on } If you use … [Read more…]
I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about CloudFlare especially how they provide free SSL. CloudFlare is also great at protecting your sites from DDOS. They sit between your site and the users where all the traffic is routed through. This allows them to control which packets they reject and which ones go through. … [Read more…]
I recently have to build a little contact form that will post to an API. The application will need to firstly authenticate to the API with OAuth to get a token. It then uses that token to post the form to the API. The token will be valid for a number of seconds defined in the … [Read more…]
When my team and I upgraded one of the projects from MVC 4 to MVC 5, we encountered an issue where users get redirected to the default log in URL Account/Login which is different to the one specified in the web.config in the authentication section. <authentication mode=”Forms”> <forms loginUrl=”~/Account/Security/Login” timeout=”2880″ /> </authentication> After a bit of research on … [Read more…]
I’ve been building a little console app to be run as an Azure web job for my side project. I want to re-use some of the services in the business logic layer that serves the website this web job is for. This requires some dependencies injection in this console app. There is a Schedule service that … [Read more…]
Last month after I installed Windows 10 on my computer at work, some of the UI tests started to fail because the date string on the UI did not match the expected date string. i.e. Date string on UI: 15-01-2016 Expected date string: 15/01/2016 The interesting thing was that in the code where it the date is … [Read more…]
One of the projects I’m working on is in MVC 4. The team decides to upgrade the project to MVC 5. The process is fairly simple. Go to Nuget Package Manager and upgrade MVC to MVC 5. The project then still builds successfully but when navigating to the site, I receive the following error. … [Read more…]
A client wants to implement an image upload for user profiles last week. The file is validated when users upload for the right format and size. In MVC, the uploaded file is of the class HttpPostedFileBase. My solution is create a few extension methods for the class HttpPostedFileBase. These methods validate whether file is of an image format, … [Read more…]
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…]