In ASP.NET Core we are used to have multiple appsettings.json files with settings that differ per environment. I want to do the same in a Console Application. This makes debugging the application easier.
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I can almost hear you thinking: “What super-weird problem are you trying to solve!?” Well… it is kind of an abstract one! Imagine you have a dictionary of objects and a separate list of keys in a certain order. Now suppose you want an ordered dictionary based on the list of keys.
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When you are used to building web applications, you kind of get hooked to the ease of Dependency Injection (DI) and the way settings can be specified in a JSON file and accessed through DI (IOptions
One of the big advantages of the .Net regular expression implementation is named groups. Today I want to show how to leverage named regular expression groups to build a routing constraint that will map each group value to a named route value.
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Linq is a wonderful way to work with lists in C#. This article focuses on how you can create a round robin ordering for segments of your list. It will distribute items of each segment evenly over the list.
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Having a diagram of how your C# projects interlink, can be a big help. I’ve created a small PowerShell script that will produce the diagram based on the .csproj files in a directory. It will generate Yuml.me diagrams based on the dependencies!
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In a previous article I wrote how to parse Roman Numerals in C#. This article will focus on how to calculate with the class in an intuitive way. It will show how to implement implicit casting and the add and subtraction operator overloads. Fun stuff that’s probably useful in other projects.
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Lately I’ve become fascinated with the Latin language. I’m working on a project that converts photographs of Latin inscriptions on medieval statues into translated text. One of the challenges is parsing years, usually expressed in the form of Roman Numerals.
After building a parser class I noticed that it had a lot of nice characteristics: parsing, operator overloading, implicit conversions. A nice way to play around with C#.
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Lately I’ve been playing around with USB led lights in .Net. I wanted the animations to be separated from my code. Wouldn’t it be great if you could define what animations are executed in a JSON file? And map it to code?
Normally one would build a mapper that does the conversion of the JSON commands to the methods. I like to use a more generic approach. I’ve created a small utility class that executes commands by mapping and executing them as a method of the object.
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A while back I wanted to create an ASP.Net MVC client for Google Fit that charted my weight. It turned out that offline Google authentication wasn’t as straight forward as one would hope. This article will explain how it works using Google Fit as an example. The code is applicable to the whole Google API. In this example only one authorization is stored and used across multiple accounts.
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