Making string dictionary key case insensitive
A colleague pointed me to a cool way to make dictionary searches case insensitive. So I thought it’d share it with you guys.
Async loading gridview data in WPF with tasks
I wanted to load data on a screen in the background because I was experiencing UI Freezes on screen. After changing the code I found that that drawing to the screen actually takes a long time. So I wanted to update my gridview asynchronously. This seemed simple but quickly became …
Working with feature branches
Most of us live in a GIT world. Most teams use feature branches to develop functionality using GIT. However there are still a lot of people who use TFS, SVN or even SourceSafe and may not know what they are and how to use them. In this post I will …
A couple of gotcha’s with enums
Within C# I use enumerations a lot. An enumeration is a distinct type which contains a collection of named constants. It can be a lot of underlying types (byte, sbyte, short, ushort, int, uint, long, or ulong) but i usually see the default which is an int (Int32). You can …
Creating NuGet packages from Azure Pipelines with .net core
After my previous post about using Azure DevOps as a buildserver I am going to show you what else you can do with it. The second thing we are going do with it is create a NuGet package and publish it through Azure Pipelines. Read on if you want to …
Continuous integration in Azure DevOps
Continuous Integration allows a developer to make sure their code builds correctly and that unit tests are run after each check in. There are of course a lot more things you can do with it but on this article I’ll focus on these two first. I’ll be using Azure DevOps …
Simulating touch on windows 10 for a WPF application
Before UWP apps and XAML we had Silverlight and WPF. WPF applications were intended to replace the old Winforms applications. With .Net core 3 supporting WPF it has extended it’s lifespan once more. For a customer I had a WPF application that was mainly operated using a touch screen so …
Injecting config settings in .NET Core MVC Views
After playing around with MVC on .net core a little i realized I needed to have some maps functionality using static bing maps on my site. So after getting a key and reading through some documentation I found out that i needed to set the license key in the map …
Constructing objects using Builders
On a recent project all our domain objects are all Immutable. The reason for that is that it makes multithreading easier. Immutable means that an object properties cannot be changed once it is constructed. The problem Suppose we have the following object: Public class User { public int Id {get;} …
My favorite .net podcasts
This will be my first post in a while, so bear with me on this one. Recently i found I needed a fun and easy way to keep my knowledge level up to date. I don’t want to know everything about a new subject but just enough so that if …