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The serializer from JSON.Net is really good, and the default output from JsonConvert.SerializeObject will work for most situations, but sometimes you want fine control over the structure of your JSON. Fortunately,

I am working on a project in which I want to export some tabular data in Markdown. I started writing methods to do this with each set of data, but that got to

If you have any .Net Core Preview 2 applications that use project.json, you will encounter errors if you try to update to .Net Core Preview 3. This is due to the fact

I previously wrote about the Context Pattern where I used an example of temporarily turning off an event. I was recently writing a console application and came up with another use of the

I was writing a small tool recently and wanted to give it to some people in the office to use, but I wanted it to be simple. I was going to put it

Have you ever wanted to give your users some predefined choices for a time span (minutes, hours, etc)? That’s a pretty natural thing to do using language, but not such a natural

I came across a pretty neat nuget package that may very well be my go-to validation logic from now on. The package is called FluentValidation and seems to be a very flexible and

It has always been a minor pain that fields in a database can be null while the same value type in .Net cannot be. If you wanted to read a nullable DateTime field

I have had a recurring problem on my PC for a while where after some period of time Visual Studio will fail to start and show a generic error message box. I have

Today I encountered a scenario which I could describe with words much better than I could describe with code. I was reading results from a REST API, reading a few thousand records over

Sometimes you run across situations where there is just no good solution. No matter which option you choose, there are downsides. I found one such situation today when trying to design an interface.

I recently found myself needing to periodically check the status of another operation, waiting for it to finish. In pseudocode, the basic operation is similar to this: while (!complete) { //check the status if

In my post on Debugging Different SOS Versions With WinDBG, I wrote how you often will need a different version of mscordacwks.dll, but I skipped over the part about how to obtain

I decided I wanted to get a VPN service that I could use to protect my privacy and security on the internet. This isn’t so much an issue at home as it

Debugging memory dump files from .Net processes with WinDbg is always an adventure. I have below a solution to the common problem of CLR version mismatching. But first, I will give a quick

I have found myself enjoying a certain coding pattern lately, so I thought it would be a good opportunity for a new post. There are situations where you want to do something within

I was working on a WPF app recently where I was binding a dependency property to the selection of a ComboBox. I needed to pass this value down to a domain object, so

This article is about character encoding, but I thought it would be beneficial to give some background on what I’m doing. I’ve been working on a project that generates a report,

You probably already know that FunnelWeb has no ability to export your posts. However, I have devised a way to export your FunnelWeb data from the database into a WordPress export file format.

Google has terrible customer service. Big surprise, right? Yes, I know I’m getting many things for free. I don’t dispute that. My problem is when they are happy to charge me

In my Blog Refresh post I talked about moving back to BlogEngine.Net on Arvixe. I used BlogEngine.net for a while but wanted to update to a new version. I had experienced

Imagine the situation where you have three radio buttons in a Window. You want the selection of those radio buttons to be bound to a single enum value where the enum contains values

In my previous post I mentioned that Arvixe was a good and cheap web host. They provide a good set of features for a low price for Windows hosting. I used Arvixe for

I know I haven’t updated CODEcisions much lately. I need to make note of some new topics to cover because I’m always learning new things, I just need to write them

Problem I have had situations before where I needed to convert a binding value in multiple ways, but there was no way to apply multiple converters to the binding. One example of this