If you aim to enhance the quality of your software modules through comprehensive unit test coverage, incorporating a unit test coverage report into your development process can be highly beneficial. Follow these straightforward steps to seamlessly integrate test coverage analysis into your project: Add coverlet packages: Begin by including the necessary packages in your test... » read more
In a similar construction as the previous blog about creating webjobs for the .NET Framework, we needed a Sync WebJob now for the same kind of solution except that the Web App was a .NET 5.0 blazor solution. Therefore we needed to create an Azure WebJob which could run alongside this. Unfortunately, there was not... » read more
Recently, I needed to synchronize data from an external database for a solution running in a Web App using the MySQL in-app database. My first step was to create an OData REST API interface on top of the external DB, which needed to be called once in a while. I thought that an Azure Webservice... » read more
Why Express App (XAF)? I have been using Express APP (XAF) from Developer Express for applications for as long as I can remember; mostly to play around with. The reason? I have been so fascinated by the development process involved (building the business objects first) and the rapid development possibilities this framework has. On a... » read more
Recently, I had to create a build pipeline for a small console application in Azure Pipelines for a customer. Personally, I prefer to handle versioning of software so that the version number is represented like this: 2020.8.24.2, where a last number is a revision number and those before are the current date. In this case,... » read more
Start by installing the AutoMapper extension from the package manager in your project. In PowerShell, or with the package manager console in Visual Studio, type: Register a service in ConfigureServices in the startup.cs file: Add an AutoMapping.cs file with the following content: Inject a mapper into your controller: Now you can do the mapping like... » read more
Recently, we needed a solid file sender/receiver system developed in .NET to be used with several service bus systems such as Azure Microsoft Service Bus, Active MQ, Active MQ – Artemis, and Rabbit MQ – who all support AMQP and code technologies like C# and .NET. . I found Sean Feldman’s plugin for doing this... » read more
Lately, I’ve been working on a project where we need to decouple the implementation of the service bus to the specific service bus interface implementation in order to meet current and future technology requirements. We’ve been trying to keep the technology stack low and currently have two implementations of Message Queue Services that our systems... » read more
Recently, I was working on a project where we had to print a PDF file to a printer from within a C# program. I ended up creating a PDFFilePrint NuGet Package which you can find at the end of this link. Simply type the following into the Visual Studio console: Install-Package PDFFilePrint -ProjectName MyProject