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November 19, 2018 C#

.NET Core Manually Instantiating IOptions for Unit Testing

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

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November 13, 2018 Tips

Tip: Visual Studio Custom File Nesting

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

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October 30, 2018 C#

Handling CSV Files in .NET Core C#

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

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October 24, 2018 Testing

REST API testing with Katalon

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

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September 20, 2018 Tips

Tip: Hotkey for quickly moving lines of code in VS and VS Code

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

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August 31, 2018 C#

Casting object to Anonymous Types in C#

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

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August 22, 2018 Tips

Compare AD Group Membership Between Two Users in Powershell

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

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August 20, 2018 Tips

Tip: Using LINQ With Watches While Debugging in VS or VS Code

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

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July 18, 2018 System Design

Multi-System Data Synchronization

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

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June 27, 2018 Angular / UI/UX

AngularJS not-in-list validation

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

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