.NET 6 introduced a few new helper methods to deal with throwing exceptions, and one of them is ThrowIfNull. The usage is simple: The method will throw a ArgumentNullException when myParam is null. It will do nothing otherwise. ThrowIfNull can take in two parameters: Note: paramName uses CallerArgumentExpressionAttribute to retrieve the name of your parameter…
This error usually means that there is a mismatch between the AppService Stack and .NET version and your app’s target framework. This can happen when you upgrade your web app, but you do not update the runtime of the App Service. This is a common occurence for ASP.NET MVC and Web API projects going through…
Switch build agent specification to windows-2019.
In order to retrieve an embedded resource in .NET Core, we first need to understand how the resource name is composed. It’s got 3 elements, all joined by dots (.): Let’s take a concrete example. We have a project (assembly) with a root namespace MyApp.Core. Inside our project we’ve got a folder + subfolder like…
Both are code-first technologies targeting developers (as opposed to design-first workflow services). They enable the orchestration and integration of different business applications into a single workflow and provide more control over the performance of your workflow plus the ability to write custom code as part of the business process. Azure WebJobs WebJobs are a part…
Both are design-first technologies, meaning that they provide user interfaces allowing you to draw-out your workflows as opposed to coding them. Other similarities between the two: They both can accept inputs Can run actions Able to control the workflow using conditions Can produce outputs Logic Apps Logic Apps is a service provided by Azure which…
There are two key differences compared to ASP.NET: To get started, add an appsettings.json file in your shared project. Make sure you set it’s Build Action to Embeded Resource. Add some keys + value in the file that we can use for testing. For example: Next, we need to get hold of the resource stream….
In less than 5 minutes. First step is to create your Xamarin Forms projects – start with a blank shell app – and add an additional blank ASP.NET Core project to the solution – we will use it to host our SignalR backend. Once the projects are setup, we begin by implementing the ChatHub which…
After upgrading your WordPress site’s PHP version using the MultiPHP manager to use PHP 7, you might be running into the following error: Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress. This is caused by an obsolete handler in your .htaccess file. Fixing it OR Save the file…
When dealing with mobile clients, it’s not always easy to get them on the same network as your development machine and even when you do, localhost will have a different meaning so you need to use IPs and change bindings and disable SSL or trust self-signed certificates, in short it’s a pain. Say hello to…
If you were taught that 1 MB = 1024 KB, you were thaught wrong. 1 MB actually equals 1000 KB, while 1 MiB = 1024 KiB. The mebi prefix in MebiByte (MiB) stands for mega and binary – which refers to it as being a power of 2 – thus the values such as 32,…
Interacting with and engaging your viewers is as important as the content you create and it’s important to give your audience a voice. But how to do that in an easy way? The answer is simple, through Polls. Now in this article we’re going to have a look at the Polls app from Streamlabs’ app…