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The TRY/CATCH/FINALLY exception handling has been around since C# 1.0 and you are very unlikely to find a developer who does not know how to use them. What may not be so obvious is that there are a number of hidden gems that few developers use. This is on top of new enhancements that have…

One of the benefits of having the source code is that often the comments in the code can provide good insight into the inner workings that the normal documentation does not. It can also show code that will output more logging when certain options are set. The biggest benefit comes from being able to attach…

This article is about looking at a specific C# feature and see how the functionality has been changed as each new C# version is released. It’s nice to look at “What’s New” articles but sometimes I find myself unable to remember at which version a specific feature can be used. What are they? …

One of the benefits of having the source code is that often the comments in the code can provide good insight into the inner workings that the normal documentation does not. It can also show code that will output more logging when certain options are set. The biggest benefit comes from being able to attach…

I use Visual Studio Team Service (VSTS) as part of my DevOps process for end to end Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD). As the product grows so does the number of built in variables and whilst the documentation explains the variables you have available, understanding what the values are can be tricky. At…

This is a series of blogs detailing my introduction to using OData v4 with C# and ASP.NET WebApi. The source code for the project can be found here. Conventional Data Model Up to now our two code examples built the Entity Data Model (EDM) using the Conventional Data Model. We defined a…

There are times when you create an assembly executable that has dependencies on other assemblies. You may want pass this assembly around without having the need for it to be installed however; if you have to copy DLL’s around with the EXE, there could be a chance that they are forgotten or the wrong versions…

Principle This principle is an extension of the Open Close Principle and was first introduced by Barbara Liskov during a conference keynote speech. We need to ensure that new derived classes are extending the base classes without changing their behaviour. You should be able to replace a class with its base type without…

In this series of blogs I want to show how we access the Azure REST API directly using Postman in order to understand how applications can get authenticated and authorized automatically without having the user enter a username and password. Overview The Azure REST API is the under pinning’s for all the other…

This is a series of blogs detailing my introduction to using OData v4 with C# and ASP.NET WebApi. The source code for the project can be found here. Creating the Project The Project is called Part08 Create the Customer Model In the Models folder create a Customer class…