The C# 9 init-only setters

August 15, 2021 Vlad Vizitiu C# Behind the scene, CodeProject, Good Practices, Snippets C#, C# 9, CodeProject, InDepth, quality of life

In a previous post in which we discussed about the Null Object Pattern, we discussed of a hackish approach to make sure that the default properties cannot be changed. Please note that the code snippets from this post have been run in LinqPad so they can be used as is, to run them in Visual … Continue reading The C# 9 init-only setters

Download file via ajax

July 25, 2021 Vlad Vizitiu ASP.NET, CodeProject, Good Practices Axios, Browser, CodeProject, Front-End, Javascript, utilities

Hello and welcome 😀, In a previous post we discussed how to create a zip file on demand on the server so that it can be served via Web API. The code for the previous post and this one for can be found in my github repository. So today we're going to look at how … Continue reading Download file via ajax

Creating zips server side per request

July 17, 2021 Vlad Vizitiu ASP.NET, CodeProject, Snippets ASP.Net Core, C#, CodeProject, utilities

Hello and welcome 😀, Today's post will focus on a situation I encountered recently, and that is How to create a zip archive on demand to be served via an API endpoint. In a following post, we will see how to receive a file from an AJAX call since there's some trickery involved there as … Continue reading Creating zips server side per request

Mocking LINQ Expressions

August 2, 2020November 18, 2020 Vlad Vizitiu CodeProject, Unit Testing C#, CodeProject, Dependency Injection, Good Practice, LinqPad, NSubstitute, quality of life, Stashbox, Unit Testing

Hello and welcome In today's post, we will discuss mocking/stubbing lambda expressions so that we can have a bit more control over our unit tests. Keep in mind that I'm by no means versed in expression trees so I will try my best to explain. What is an Expression and how to use it Going … Continue reading Mocking LINQ Expressions

The rise of the Null-Object pattern in C# 8

May 17, 2020May 21, 2020 Vlad Vizitiu .Net Core, C# Behind the scene, CodeProject, Good Practices C#, CodeProject, Design Patterns, Good Practice

Hello and welcome, As I probably mentioned in some of my older posts, I'm a big fan of code restrictions that can be imposed by the IDE. I think this is a reason why stylecop was/is so popular (I don't know since I mostly use Rider nowadays and Resharper for Visual Studio). Because of this, … Continue reading The rise of the Null-Object pattern in C# 8

Mouse automation with AutoItX

February 9, 2020February 18, 2020 Vlad Vizitiu AutoItX, CodeProject AutoItX, C#, LinqPad

Hello and welcome, In this post, we are going to talk about how we can automate part of the windows desktop environment using AutoItX. What is AutoItX? Before we can talk about AutoItX first we need to talk a little bit about AutoIt. AutoIt as we see from the description on their page and their … Continue reading Mouse automation with AutoItX

Typed claims in ASP.Net Core 2.1

February 3, 2019November 15, 2019 Vlad Vizitiu .Net Core, ASP.NET, CodeProject, Good Practices ASP.Net Core, C#, Claims, InDepth

Hello and Welcome 🙂 Today I want to discuss about how we can use claims following a typed approach, this topic came about from a bug that was encountered during a code review for an application. As such I wanted to find a way of mitigating such issues in the future by using concrete classes … Continue reading Typed claims in ASP.Net Core 2.1

Logging Aspect what it is & where it is going

May 29, 2016November 12, 2018 Vlad Vizitiu CodeProject, Logging Aspect C#, CodeProject, PostSharp, utilities

Hello, Intro Some might know of a library I did a few months ago about using PostSharp and designing a logging implementation following the Aspect Oriented Programming programming paradigm. For those who did now know about it, you can find the repository here. The project also came along with a few NuGet packages, but in … Continue reading Logging Aspect what it is & where it is going

ClipX showcast

March 30, 2016November 12, 2018 Vlad Vizitiu CodeProject, Tools CodeProject, quality of life, Tools, utilities

Hello and welcome, Starting a new category to showcase some of the tools I started using, and why, and how can they helped me and might help you out as well. Today I will be talking and show the ClipX tool. So this small tool is a life saver for me, and I have been … Continue reading ClipX showcast

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