Mitch Valenta

.NET Core Manually Instantiating IOptions for Unit Testing

One new feature of .NET Core is the built-in dependency injection container. Specifically, within the Configure Services method of the startup, you

One of the niceties of Visual Studio is the ability to nest files under similarly named files. If I have

Often times for business applications, you need to provide the ability for a user to upload a spreadsheet of data,

Katalon Background Recently, I had the opportunity of figuring out how to test a REST API using Katalon. Katalon is

While I’m programming, I often use different code editors for different use cases, and one of my absolute favorite distinct

Recently I was attempting to create an integration test where I called an API controller’s GET method directly from code,

I’ve come to notice that some companies leverage Active Directory groups for certain security policies. Conceptually, it works out to

Recently I came across a handy little feature in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code that allows for fast analysis

Overview A frequent design issue in programming is synchronizing data between two systems. This issue commonly pops up if you

Recently I had to make a form where the one of the underlying data columns has a unique constraint on