Category: Software Development Tips & Tricks

Thanks to everyone for coming to our Vogon Poetry Reading on Selenium testing on June 27th. As a follow up to that fast-paced introduction, here are a few helpful links to get you started creating your Selenium tests. SeleniumHQ – This is the home of all things Selenium. Sauce Labs: Getting Started with WebDriver in…

.NET Core is awesome. Better performance, cleaned up interfaces, what’s not to like? Well, in the cloud world some things just aren’t there yet. For example, if you want to use WebJobs for async processing you might have some problems with .NET Core (at least as of June 2018). WebJobs provide a super easy way…

We covered Entity Framework Code First in an earlier post where we just let Entity Framework create the database tables for us from a schema. That pattern might break down when we have actual data, but I do think letting Entity Framework create your tables is a great pattern for proof on concepts. In this…

In my previous posts, I have covered two forms of database change control. Both of those focused on taking some sort of schema and deploying it. But in this post, I am changing focus to something that stores the deltas and reapplies them. Both DbUp and Code-First Migrations will basically play a continual list of…

Code-First is a great way to stand up a data access layer quickly and with minimal pain. Code-First really excels because it allows you to easily blow away your schema. But Code-First isn’t a great scheme if you want to do a lot of stored procedures, or if your system contains a lot of views….

Source control is a foundational piece of any software development process. If you are not doing source control, you are doing it wrong. You will feel some pain someday, probably some bad pain. Source control is useful for everything, not just your C# code but also your databases. Why should your database code be any…

As it is with most things Docker, the majority of the tutorials and instructions on securing the Docker API endpoints use Linux-based examples. Being new to both the Docker and the Linux world made this process a little more frustrating than I expected. However, I made my way through it and documented my journey which…

ASP.NET MVC has the ability to validate forms with minimal effort thanks to the attributes in `System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations` (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/mvc/overview/older-versions-1/models-data/validation-with-the-data-annotation-validators-cs#using-the-data-annotation-validator-attributes). You can simply slap an attribute such as `Required` on a property and get nice validation messages. But what if you want to validate multiple fields on a model? There are a couple ways you can solve…

Cassey shares how the Ocuvera team converted a legacy project to NET Standard for use in Xamarin Forms.