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 that .Net Core is moving away from project.json and will use the normal .csproj files going

I previously wrote about the Context Pattern [https://codecisions.com/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 Context Pattern that I thought I would share. Often in a console application,

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 out on a network share, but I didn't like how I needed a folder with all the

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 thing to do using the TimeSpan class in .Net. You could write your own methods to convert

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 [https://github.com/JeremySkinner/FluentValidation] and seems to be a very flexible and usable fluent approach to object validation. There’s not much else to

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 in the database into your object’s DateTime property, the only choice was to check it for

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 multiple versions of Visual Studio and all would fail to load, none telling me exactly what the

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 multiple requests. I was saving these records to a database and didn’t want to wait until

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. The code below are simple examples I wrote for the purposes of this post. public interface INotifier

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 ([completed]) complete = true; else //sleep 500ms } I did not want to wait forever, though, so I wanted