Recently I was having an issue where a parameter being passed in to my WebAPI call was not being populated correctly. Theoretically all you need to do is add [FromBody] to the route, and it will automatically populate the object from the HTTP message’s body… but that wasn’t working for me Turns out this IS … [Read more…]
Have you ever wanted to have a web server to just return 200 OK no matter what it is fed? Basically, a web server to just say: No matter what? Recently I was working on a solution that was logging to a server that I didn’t have access to because I wasn’t inside of the … [Read more…]
Regular expressions are powerful, but I find that they’re also incredibly annoying to use. Recently I was trying to create a parser that would try a few different regular expressions and output an object with the proper fields defined. The input was a string separated by periods, so it was fairly easy to create the … [Read more…]
When you write code against an Observable, you subscribe to the result. In the subscribe method you provide the callbacks to perform when the Observable is called back. That means you can execute different code for success and failure. In the last post I wrote about how to mock up and test Observable<T> in Jasmine … [Read more…]
Bootstrap is great, but it doesn’t have support for specifying border widths out of the box. The class border-left-0, border-top-0, etc, seem like they should work to specify a width… but they are for hiding specific portions of the border instead. This didn’t really make sense to me – after all, a border with a … [Read more…]
I’ve found this guide on creating an Angular 4 inside of .NET core very helpful. One of the steps is to set up .NET core to serve static files: However, if you add routing to Angular 4, there’s an additional step that will allow your routes to resolve correctly in the angular application if a … [Read more…]
Newtonsoft Json.NET is a super popular (#1 most downloaded NuGet package) framework for serializing and deserializing json. In my experience, I haven’t really had to do much other than use the most basic serialization and deserialization. Sometimes, though, there is a time when the API you’re working with presents you with something goofy. In my … [Read more…]
How many times have you wanted to check the IIS Request Logs to see if anything is going wrong, only to find a bunch of arbitrarily named W3SVx folders because you have more than one website running? And then you open the folder, but all of the log files are also arbitrarily named? And then … [Read more…]
I haven’t done a lot of SEO-type stuff for web development, as a lot of my work has been for intranet applications with no outside face, but today at work I was tasked with fixing some errors that had come up on my client’s Google Search Console. They didn’t know what the errors were, exactly, … [Read more…]