C#: Avoiding Performance Issues with Inserts in SQLite
Image by Lance McCord | Some Rights Reserved If you are new to SQLite, you may well run across one of the most confounding of its implementation details the moment you attempt to do some sort of bulk or batch processing of...
Installing and Using SQLite on Windows
Image by shinichi | Some Rights Reserved When one is developing in .NET with Visual Studio and other Microsoft tools, it is easy to lose sight of alternative solutions to common problems. MS does a competent job of creating a...
Adding and Editing PATH Environment Variables in Windows
Sometimes we need to tell Windows where to look for a particular executable file or script. Windows provides a means to do this through the Path Environment Variable. The Path Environment Variable essentially provides the OS with...
ASP.NET Web Api and Identity 2.0 – Customizing Identity Models and Implementing Role-Based Authorization
Image by madamepsychosis | Some Rights Reserved In a previous post, we took a high-level look at using Identity 2.0 in the context of a Web Api application. We essentially poked and prodded the default Visual Studio Web Api...
Setting Up for Mono Development in Linux Mint/Ubuntu
Image by Neil Fowler | Some Rights Reserved I recently needed to create a cross-platform C# library which needs to work across Windows, OSX, and Linux. Obviously, getting a .NET library running on Windows presented no great...
Setting Up Linux in a Virtual Machine for Windows Users
If you have spent most of your computing life using Windows, odds are good you may find yourself in unfamiliar territory when if comes to setting up a Linux box. Even for some experienced technical folks, the differences between...
ASP.NET Web Api: Unwrapping HTTP Error Results and Model State Dictionaries Client-Side
Image by Damien Roué | Some Rights Reserved When working with ASP.NET Web Api from a .NET client, one of the more confounding things can be handling the case where errors are returned from the Api. Specifically, unwrapping the...
ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Introduction to Working with Identity 2.0 and Web API 2.2
Image by Universal Pops | Some Rights Reserved In recent posts, I’ve covered a lot of ground using ASP.NET Identity 2.0 in the context of an MVC application. Since it’s RTM in March of this year, Identity 2.0 has...
I am a Programmer, and I can Complicate the #@$% out of a Ball Bearing
Image by Oliver | Some Rights Reserved Sometimes the simplest of things elude us. We miss the forest for the trees. Or, we come up with what seems to be an elegant solution to a coding problem, only to realize (or, in my case,...
C#: Building a Useful, Extensible .NET Console Application Template for Development and Testing
Image by Christopher Rose | Some Rights Reserved How often do you find yourself tossing together a console application for the purpose of trying out code, “testing” in the sense of seeing what works best, or,...