Sometimes it is rather difficult to debug through Visual Studio directly even although the project is right there in front of you. In my case I have an assembly that is invoked from a wrapper that is itself invoked from an MSBuild script. I could potentially get VS to invoke the whole pipeline but it […]
Category Archives: Software Development
Two Factor Authentication with GitHub and Visual Studio 2013
New job, new tools, new processes. In my new job we’re using GitHub for source control, and because the data is sensitive we’re also using two factor authentication. Because I develop with Visual Studio that presents and interesting issue if you are using Visual Studio 2013’s build in Git Source Control provider. After turning on […]
Custom routing to support multi-tenancy applications
The company I currently work for has many brands so they are looking for a website that can be restyled for each brand. They also want the styling information to be managed through an admin area rather than have to go to the development team each time they want to change something. To that end […]
Changing the default Assembly/Namespace on an MVC appliction
TL;DR When getting an error message like this: Compiler Error Message: CS0246: The type or namespace name ‘UI’ could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) when compiling Razor views after changing the namespace names in your project, check the web.config file in each of the view folders for […]
The difference between & and && operators
Here is a bit of code that was failing: if (product!=null & !string.IsNullOrEmpty(product.ProductNotes)) If you look closely you can see it uses just the single ampersand operator, not the usual double ampersand operator. There is a significant function difference between the two that under normal circumstances may not be obvious when performing logic operations on business […]
Setting up Code Coverage in Team City
The project that I’m working on has a rather spotted history for unit tests until now. There would be periods of people actually writing them, but then come unstuck when a random test failed and eventually the tests would be allowed to rot a bit, until something spurned everyone back to life again. However, unit […]
Code Review: Making a drop down list out of an enum
I’ve come across code like this a couple of times and it is rather odd: IEnumerable<CalendarViewEnum> _calendarViewEnums = Enum.GetValues(typeof(CalendarViewEnum)).Cast<CalendarViewEnum>(); List selectList = new List<SelectListItem>(); foreach (CalendarViewEnum calendarViewEnum in _calendarViewEnums) { switch (calendarViewEnum) { case CalendarViewEnum.FittingRoom: selectList.Add(new SelectListItem { Text = AdminPreferencesRes.Label_CalendarViewFittingRoom, Value = ((int)calendarViewEnum).ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture), Selected = (calendarViewEnum == CalendarViewEnum.FittingRoom) }); break; case CalendarViewEnum.Staff: selectList.Add(new SelectListItem […]
Previewing Config Transforms
Curiously, I didn’t know about this until recently and it is such a useful thing too. You can preview the results of your configuration transformation from within Visual Studio. First of all, right click the transform file and select “Preview Transform” Then it will show you the differences between the original web.config file and the […]
Deploying a Node.js with Express application on Azure
By the end of the last post, there was enough of an application to deploy it, so let’s deploy it. Prerequisites An FTP client to get at the files on Azure. A GitHub account (or other source control, but this walk through uses GitHub) to deploy to Azure. And an Azure account – this walk […]
Node.js with Express – Come to the dark side. We have cookies!
So far, so good. At the point the application displays a list of languages and will display the language that the user picked. However, for the flashcards to work, that selection will have to be remembered. As there is so little state, it is possible to store that in a cookie. Express handles the creation […]
