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How to paste JSON as Classes in Visual Studio: A hidden gem!

In the increasingly fast-paced world of software development, efficiency is a critical factor for success in the marketplace. Visual Studio, Microsoft’s flagship IDE (Integrated Development Environment), is packed full of features designed to make your programming experience as productive as possible. Among these is a lesser-known feature that is extremely useful; the ability to paste…

A better way to convert enums to strings with Entity Framework Core

InProgramming

By default, Entity Framework Core stores and retrieves .NET enumerations as their underlying integer values for SQL databases, primarily for performance and storage optimization reasons. Nevertheless, if there is a requirement to store enums within your data model as strings at the database level, it is important to have a suitable way to configure this…

Query to find table names in a SQL Server database

InSQL

When working in a SQL Server or Azure SQL database containing many tables, I often find the need to search for tables with names that contain a specific keyword. This is particularly true when working with an unfamiliar schema. While tools like Azure Data Studio provide easy ways to search by table name, I find…

Converting CSV files with values containing commas to JSON using C#

InProgramming

CSV (Comma-separated values) remains an extremely popular file format, and, in the context of programming, it is particularly useful for importing and exporting data between different software applications. One of the issues with CSV, or any other delimiter-separated file format, is that often the values that need to be parsed into separate ‘parts’ will contain…

Communicating with ASP.NET Core hosted services from API endpoints using Channels

InAPIs Web

Hosted services are a powerful .NET feature, providing a robust mechanism for executing long-running background tasks in different types of applications. Given the flexible nature of .NET, such applications could be running on client devices, on-premise servers, or the cloud, depending on the particular use case. When it comes to ASP.NET Core, hosted services are…

Store and retrieve enums as strings with Entity Framework Core

InProgramming

C# enumeration types (enums) provide a highly extensible and type-safe way of storing values and they are used frequently in .NET software development. When enums are saved to a SQL database with Entity Framework Core, by default they are stored using their underlying integer values rather than as strings. There are several reasons for this…

How to replace accented characters with plain characters using C#

InProgramming

The majority of software applications developed today need to work with strings that contain accented characters such as à and é since many human languages use these to indicate variations in pronunciation and other subtleties. Even English borrows some French words that contain accents and other glyphs, such as café, déjà vu, and façade. These…

ASP.NET Core runtime exception: Could not load type ‘Microsoft.IdentityModel.Json.JsonConvert’

InAPIs Web

When developing ASP.NET Core web applications, it is common to interact with JWTs (JSON Web Tokens). Quite often you will want to validate JWTs and possibly even generate your own JWTs to secure API endpoints. However, it’s not always plain sailing when it comes to software development. After updating certain Microsoft NuGet packages to newer…

Extracting query performance statistics from a SQL Server database

InSQL

Monitoring query performance is an essential aspect of proper database management. Poorly performing queries can produce a domino effect, affecting the overall health of your database server and severely degrading application user experience. Queries that result in many reads and writes to the hard disk and that use excessive amounts of CPU time and memory…

Exploring ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs: Should I use them in production?

InAPIs

If you’ve been keeping up to date with what’s new in the .NET ecosystem over the last year or two, you’ll probably already be aware of the Minimal APIs feature that debuted in ASP.NET 6.0 back in 2021. However, since Minimal APIs are still a relatively new concept, perhaps you haven’t considered using them in…

Author: Jonathan Crozier

How to paste JSON as Classes in Visual Studio: A hidden gem!

A better way to convert enums to strings with Entity Framework Core

Query to find table names in a SQL Server database

Converting CSV files with values containing commas to JSON using C#

Communicating with ASP.NET Core hosted services from API endpoints using Channels

Store and retrieve enums as strings with Entity Framework Core

How to replace accented characters with plain characters using C#

ASP.NET Core runtime exception: Could not load type ‘Microsoft.IdentityModel.Json.JsonConvert’

Extracting query performance statistics from a SQL Server database

Exploring ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs: Should I use them in production?

Operating on data via a SQL Server Stored Procedure efficiently with Table-Valued Parameters using C#

Enable ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation for Blazor WebAssembly

Formatting JSON with proper indentation using PowerShell