Terry Butler

I’m curious to see if anybody would be interested if I were to set up a Github repository with everything I have so far ported to C# potentially using Unity for the game engine? Let me know if anybody would be interested.

Just a very quick one with Preview5. I encountered this gotcha whereby the project’s name in the solution explorer doesn’t match that of the folder name. I’d had a change of heart on the project name but of course the folder on disk doesn’t change automatically. Once I’d renamed the folder and then proceeded to […]

Using GitLab to host both the source control and perform CI/CD, we will take a blazor project and build it and then proceed to deploy it on Netlify. This article presumes that you have some familiarity with the following: GitLab for source control (See here) GitLab for CI/CD (See here) Netlify CLI for deployment (See […]

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On the odd occasion you wish to debug Seed method code which has been executed from the Package Manager Console using the Update-Database command, a quick and dirty method is to add the following code: Yes it’s dirty! It will however fire up a new Visual Studio debug window and allow you to see what’s […]

When running an ASP.NET Core website in IIS, you may experience the following error: “HTTP Error 500.19 – Internal Server Error” (Code: 0x8007000d) The following article describes the error as being “This problem occurs because the ApplicationHost.config file or the Web.config file contains a malformed XML element.”: This comes down to the presence of the […]

Here’s a small code snippet to use Http Range Requests with ASP.NET Core butchered from this now outdated MSDN article: using System.IO; using System.Text; using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc; namespace WebApiRangeTest.Controllers { [Route(“api/[controller]”)] [ApiController] public class RangeController : ControllerBase { private static readonly byte[] _content = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(“abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz”); public IActionResult Get() { MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(_content); if (stream == null) […]

Step 1 – Starting with the Tools menu item from the top navigation menu, navigate through the menus as follows: Tools > Options > Text Editor > C# > Code Style > Naming Step 2 – Click the green Plus icon to open the following dialogue box: Step 3 – Now add the following: Step […]

Restarting Visual Studio usually works but instead try using taskkill (Read more: [1][2]) to end the offending process: taskkill.exe /IM vstest.console.exe /F

The tutorial for React and Webpack at typescriptlang.org is one of the better tutorials out there, although with the introduction of Webpack 4 and wanting the hot reload support, I sought to seek out a more modern tutorial. I found the tutorial at AppDividend but still wanted the familiar experience of the one at typescriptlang.org. https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/react-&-webpack.html https://appdividend.com/2018/03/18/how-to-setup-typescript-with-webpack-4/ […]