I have a client generated enum class with values already defined. I have to populate a dropdown list with all the enum values with a different order than the order they are declared in. First, I thought its as simple as just rearranging the order they are declared in to the order I need and … [Read more…]
I have a xml string without any namespaces that needs to deserialise to an object that has namespace in XmlType attribute. When I try to deserialise it with XmlSerializer, all my properties are not populated. To fix it, I need to add my own XmlTextReader that will replace it with the namespace from class. I … [Read more…]
I need to show the differences between 2 HTML documents. I use this library called htmldiff.net to achieve this. First, install htmldiff.net from nuget package manager.Then, you can do the following example to get the new HTML string with the differences highlighted. This is what my example looks like in an MVC app
Usually, when you want to add Javascript to a view in MVC project, you would use It would be put just before the closing body tag (providing you have @RenderSection(“scripts”, required: false) before the closing body tag in the _Layout.cshtml file). However, if you have the need to add Javascript in a partial view, it … [Read more…]
I have a generated WCF client with class similar to the sample below In my unit test, I instantiate an instance of SampleClass with a value of Cost field but without setting the CostFieldSpecified to true. When I serialise it to Json string, the Cost field’s value is 0 instead of the value I set … [Read more…]
For debugging purposes, I needed to alter the xml SOAP request completely before sending the request. In this post, I showed how to log all outgoing SOAP request by using IClientMessageInspector. I’d use the same method to alter the request before sending.
I generated a WCF proxy from a WSDL file given by one of our clients using the svcutils with dotnet core 2.1. When call one of the services, I get the following error. System.PlatformNotSupportedException: Compiling JScript/CSharp scripts is not supported After a bit of research and looking into the generated proxy, I found that some … [Read more…]
Polly is a great library allowing us to add policies such as retry, circuit breaker, timeout, etc. to our HttpClient. These are the policies I used in my project and how to add them to HttpClient RetryPolicy This policy is for GET requests. We only want to retry if HTTP status code is request timeout … [Read more…]
I had to integrate to a SOAP service in my current project which requires installing a PFX certificate. I want to install it in code during start up so that it will just work on other developers’ machines. Here is the implementation of the function that installs the certificate. It requires the path to the … [Read more…]
In this post I will show how to convert UTC date to local Australian date by state. The result will be in the format of {localDateTime} – {timezone name} ({timezone abbreviation}) e.g “14/10/2018 20:30 – Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)” I added this method as an extension on DateTime