I had a comment recently from ‘The Dag‘ asking if I could create some code which would check to ensure that none of the parameters for a methods were null. While this is quite a simple piece of code I thought
NodaTime: What date time is it?
If you have ever developed an application that is time sensitive you’ll appreciate just how much of a nightmare it can be to get right. Do you handle users in a different time zone to you? Do you handle day
Logging SQL Queries in MVC With Entity Framework 6
As developers we’re inclined to want to understand what is happening under the hood or at least know that we can check if we wanted to. This is the case with Entity Framework, which performs some magic to provide access
Local NuGet Repository
NuGet is an amazing addition to Visual Studio, it’s one of those features that you wonder how we managed without it before. The only problem is that it requires that there is an active Internet connection to use it. This
Magic Strings: How to avoid them in C#
One of my least favourite things about the .NET Framework is that there are plenty of places where it expects you use magic strings . These make maintaining your application harder as refactoring through Visual Studio will not pick up
Get deep nested values without worrying about null
Failing to handle null reference’s is one of the most common bugs in an application, this happens when a developer assumes that the a value will always contain an object even though it could be null. One of the nasty
Validating XML against XSD schemas in C#
I’m currently working on an XML File Explorer application, which I intend on highlighting XML files which do not conform to an XSD schema, as part of this I have created a class for containing the details of performing XSD
Two Factor Authentication in ASP.NET MVC
It’s becoming more and more common for websites to provide the capability of having two factor authentication as part of you login process. Google, GitHub, Hotmail and Dropbox just to name a few of the organisations that have embraced two
Using reCAPTCHA in your ASP.NET MVC app
The Internet is full of bots. There’s no denying it, bots have been created to perform tasks on the Internet for many purposes, a good example is Ticketmaster, who have calculated that approximately 60% of all bookings are made by
ASP.NET MVC4 AuthorizeAttribute throughout app
If you’re developing a website where there should only be a couple of publicly accessible pages in ASP.NET MVC, then at first you may try to go through all your controllers decorating them with the AuthorizeAttribute. Although you will still