We use Seq to find valuable insights in the vast sea of our structured log messages. While the search usually works straightforward without any surprises, this time we run into a minor problem. We wanted to find all log messages where property FieldX did not match a specific value. Therefore, we appended this clause to …
DbUp is a great tool to manage changes to our database schemas. While its strength is with changing tables, we can use DbUp to insert seed data as well. It even works with binary data, if we use the right settings and find the correct method of SqlCommand. Accept code for migrations While it …
As long as your application does not use Blazor, upgrading from .Net 7 to .Net 8 is a walk in the park. The only obstacle we run into while upgrading the user group site was the publish task. Microsoft has made some simplifications to the runtime identifiers that are a breaking change. For .Net 7 …
This year marks a decade since I started to use NDepend to assess the quality of .Net projects. NDepend got much better over the years, and as far as I can tell, it is still the most flexible and versatile tool in this space. After using the current version for the last three months, it …
Last week we run into a strange problem with our integration tests. On some developer machines everything worked fine, while other machines got errors like this one: System.InvalidOperationException : Cannot resolve scoped service ‘my.application.IOrderRepository’ from root provider. at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.CallSiteValidator.ValidateResolution(Type serviceType, IServiceScope scope, IServiceScope rootScope) The problem It took us hours to understand what was …
We needed a simple solution to run recurring jobs for our user group web site. WebJobs in Azure sounded like the perfect solution, but unfortunately they do not work with App Services on Linux. We needed another approach and we found a much better solution with Background Tasks. All we need to do is to …
If you need an API endpoint that gives you some (static) test data, you can join the search for the most complicated solution. My current favourite in unnecessary complexity is to use MongoDB to serve a handful of JSON objects. However, if you prefer a much lighter approach and already use .Net, I strongly recommend …
Since I wrote about how to migrate from Moq to NSubstitute, we decided to migrate our work projects as well. The migration was much simpler than anticipated and we got some nice benefits along the way. Search and replace We did the largest part of the migration with search & replace in Visual Studio. …
Do you like coding puzzles? If so, you should go to AdventOfCode.com and prepare yourself for some funny little coding challenges. Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. As usual, the Advent …
If we want to test our code, we often need files with the right format. We can create a text file without much effort, but what do we do if we need a specific video format or an audio file in OGG? Luckily, we are not the only ones with this problem. There are dedicated …