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28 January / / .Net Core

Unit Testing Entity Framework Dependencies

How do you unit test something that has a dependency on Entity Framework? I ran into a situation recently when the code I wanted to test was loading a set of rules from a database that dictated the what functionality a web site had.

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03 December / / .Net Core

Swashbuckle and Swagger in .Net Core

19 September / / SQL

Performance of calculated fields in Linq

Long story short - be careful when using Linq that you don’t include calculated fields in your where clauses, or if you do make sure you know how the query is being executed.

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01 August / / .Net Core / Azure

Exit code -2146232576

I have a .Net console app that I have recently deployed to Azure as as a WebJob. Though it successfully deployed when it runs it exists straight away with the following error: - Job failed due to exit code -2146232576 And the WebJob status is set to ‘Pending Restart;. It turns out that I was targeting the .Net 4.7.2 framework, and Azure only supported 4.7 of the framework. After downgrading my console app to 4.
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16 March / / .Net Core

Scripts Section in ASP.Net Core Partial View

In a recent MVC project I wanted to create a set of widgets to be reused across different pages. I wanted them to be created as a partial view, and be self contained with links to associated JavaScript files. The JavaScipt should be contained in the script section in the partial view, so it is rendered at the bottom of the page. The problem is that MVC does not support the script section in a partial view, for example you can do the following in standard view but not a partial view:
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