Using BenchmarkDotNet with Azure Functions
BenchmarkDotNet is a tool for benchmarking .NET applications. Azure Functions is a serverless web application offering. You can put these together to benchmark your Azure Functions applications. S...
Ken Dale
Peas&Carrots: The Importance Of Url Encoding Query String Parameters
When creating web applications it’s common to create links. Sometimes, links contain query string parameters. Google uses the ?q= query string parameter for search queries. An issue can arise when ...
Coding To Support Both .NET Full Framework and Modern .NET
Sometimes when writing .NET libraries we want to support .NET Full Framework, as well as modern .NET. In many cases the functionality is the same, but sometimes it is different. For the cases wher...
Quickstart for Creating a Library Using the .NET CLI
The .NET CLI enables quickly scaffolding a new library. Here’s a quickstart of commands to use, substituting My.Sample.Project for your own new project: dotnet new --update-apply mkdir My.Sample.P...
Using SQL Server LocalDB with Travis CI Windows Builds
Travis CI now includes support for Windows builds. It doesn’t have SQL Server LocalDB installed by default currently, but it’s easy to install. Here’s an example Travis CI configuration that instal...
Using JavaScript Promises And async/await Together
async / await in JavaScript are syntactic sugar for Promises. Since it’s syntactic sugar, they can be used interchangeably! Here’s an example: class TestClass { getPromiseValue() { return ...
A Minimal UI Visual Studio Code Configuration
How would you like to go from this: to this: Add the following to your settings, accessible by File → Preferences → Settings. { "editor.codeLens": false, "editor.minimap.enabled": fa...
A Complete Protractor Travis CI Solution for Angular E2E Testing
TL;DR: Example at https://github.com/kendaleiv/angular-testing. Angular uses Protractor for end-to-end (e2e) testing. Protractor performs browser automation tasks using a running copy of your An...
Providing Outdated Browser Notifications Using Angular
Browser-Update.org is useful for notifying users about an outdated web browser. In the case of SPA applications, the experience using an older browser can range from great to completely broken. If...
Resolving Blacklisted RxJS Import TSLint Error
When working with Angular and the Angular CLI, one might import an RxJS Observable as: import { Observable } from 'rxjs'; Later, running TSLint reports This import is blacklisted, import a submo...