PowerShell on its own it a very powerful tool. But what if told you can make it even better using some tools that you can install on it? Not only that but you can also make it more beautiful/handsome, perhaps with a bit of a personal touch too? So, in this post I’m going to …
.Net Core
Integration Test In Asp.Net Core 6 Using SqlServer Image and TestContainers
This post is about writing integration tests and TestContainers. As you might know writing integration tests against the in-memory provider is a bad practice. Because it only works well with trivial solutions. Mostly because the in-memory API of IQueryProvider doesn’t match the LINQ query provider. Here’s a good article called “Avoid In-Memory Databases for Tests” …
Unable to locate the .NET SDK: The Reasons
The other day after installing some windows update, I tried to open Visual Studio. I opened my project and I received an error regarding .Net Sdk. The project file cannot be opened. Unable to locate the .NET SDK. Check that it is installed and that the version specified in global.json (if any) matches the installed …
Enum Serialization: System.Text.Json vs Utf8Json vs Jil vs Newtonsoft
I was reading about the new System.Text.Json in .net core 3 and comparing its speed to other libraries. You can read more about it here if you’re interested. To put it shortly, the new serializer is faster then Newtonsoft but not as fast as others. Also the enum serialization between different libraries can be inconsistent. …
Careful Model Binding JavaScript ISO Date Format to DateTime
It is agreed by the .Net community that DateTime should not be used when we develop .Net applications. You can read more about why that here. In short the least we can do is to use DateTimeOffset instead. But this post is not about the common problems associated with using DateTime. But rather it’s about …
Upgrade to Asp.Net Core From Asp.Net MVC 5
I’m working on a project written with Asp.Net MVC 5 were I work. We intend first upgrade our class libraries to .Net Standard as much as we can. Then we make the move to Asp.Net Core. But since we have many class libraries, I’ve decide to first do a little search about what is the …
.Net Core 3 New Json API And Its Features
Until the release of .Net Core 3, the Asp.Net Core was dependent on Json.NET for its serialization. But with release of .Net Core 3, this dependency is removed and a new API is created. Not only there is no dependency on Json.Net in .Net Core 3 but also this new API is much faster than …