I tend to do a lot of typos when I write a code and I mean a lot. This is quite annoying for me so I decided to somehow automate the process of finding the spelling errors during the build. My first thought was to use some kind of Roslyn analyzer, however, I failed to find any working one. This is why I decided to give a try to ReSharper Command Line Tools (also known as CLIT) combined with ReSpeller plugin. For those who don’t know, ReSharper Command Li...

In ASP.NET Coreweb.config is no longer a proper place for storing application settings. New framework introduces the concept of a json based configuration and the default file which stores the settings now is appsettings.json. Here is a quick tutorial how to use new features...

I am not a big fan of dynamic type in C#, however there are certain situations in which it can be handy. Let's assume that we have following piece of code (which I encounter quite often at my work) public abstract class Weapon { //some properties } public class Gun : Weapon { //some properties } // more derived types var weaponService = new WeaponService(); IList

One of the features I miss the most in AngularJS is ability to easy unsubscribe event handlers. There is no convenience function opposed to $on, so in order to unsubscribe event, we have to call method returned by $on function (function () { angular.module('app.download', []) .controller('downloadCtrl', downloadController); function downloadController($scope) { // keep the unsubscribe function in local variable var afterRenderUnsubscribe = $scope.$on('afterRender', onAf...

Let's assume that we have a simple table GL_Task which looks like this I was asked to rewrite simple SQL query SELECT Id,Name,IdProject FROM GL_Task WHERE Name = 'First task' OR Id IN (3,4 /more id's to come/) using NHibernate's QueryOver API. As simple as it may seem, solution for this particular problem is not straightforward. My first (not so clever) attempt was simply combining WhereRestrictionOn and Where clause var result = session.QueryOver

Everyone who has ever tried to create multilingual application knows, that this is very tedious task. The most repetitive work is usually moving hard-coded strings to resource files. Fortunately with Resharper this is definitelly less painfull than usuall. In order to point out localizable parts of application , it is necessary to decorate classes with System.ComponentModel.LocalizableAttribute. However, usually we want to localize an entire program, so more universal solution is to set appropria...

Introduction I think one of the most important features of Resharper is on-the-fly code quality analysis. Basically, every time Resharper finds possible pitfall in code, it indicates this with appropriate warning. The most common warning is "Possible System.NullReferenceException". You can easily reproduce it by writing this code List

I think almost every .NET developer is familiar with INotifyPropertyChanged interface. Typical implementation of this interface looks more or less like that: public class NotifyPropertyBase : INotifyPropertyChanged { public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged; protected virtual void OnPropertyChanged( Expression

Introduction In the company I'm currently working for, it is a common practice to use Devexpress XtraReports to create all kind of reports. Usually these reports are embedded into html page and used along with DevexpressReportViewer. However, lately I have been asked to open a report as a PDF file, without putting a viewer into a html page. 1. First approach After some digging, I created an action in controller which looks like this public void ExportToPdf() { using (MemorySt...

It is a common practice to validate function arguments before running actual code. Usually validation looks like that: public void Update(Car entity) { if(entity ==null) throw new ArgumentNullException("entity"); } There is nothing wrong with this code, however we have to repeat this piece of code in every function. Of course we could create some helper class for argument validation and call approperiate validation function before launching...