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Upgrading MVC 3 to MVC 4 via NuGet
I had to upgrade an old ASP.NET MVC 3 project to MVC 4 yesterday and whilst searching for the official instructions I found that there is a NuGet package that does all the hard work for you. The...
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Preventing Browser Caching using HTTP Headers
Many developers consider the use of HTTPS on a site enough security for a user’s data, however one area often overlooked is the caching of your sites pages by the users browser. By default (for...
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Break on Exceptions in Visual Studio 2015
Looking for the option to break on exceptions during debugging in Microsoft Visual Studio 2015? Well Microsoft dumped the old exceptions dialog and replaced it with the new Exception Settings Window....
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Find assemblies loaded during debugging in Visual Studio
Sometimes you may get the following error when you are debugging a .Net app in Visual Studio: “The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document.” Or you may have...
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Create New MSTest Projects for Pre .Net 4.5 in Visual Studio 2017
This post outlines the steps to create a new unit test project in Visual Studio 2017 using MS Test V1 and that targets .Net Frameworks prior to .Net 4.5. Visual Studio 2017 onwards only has new unit...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2019 Offline Installer
Microsoft have now released Visual Studio 2019 and like VS2017 there is no offline installer provided by Microsoft, but you can generate one by using the web installer setup program to write all the...
View ArticleRazor Pages Fixes to Tag Helpers Issues
Recently when adding Razor Pages to an existing ASP.net Core MVC web application I had issues with the Tag Helpers not working. No markup was being produced. Not only were the tag helpers (i.e....
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Build warnings & .Net Standard dependencies
Having recently migrated a Windows Azure hosted .Net Framework ASP.net MVC 5 web application over to ASP.net Core (v2.2) I hit a few issues so I’m documenting them here for my future self and anyone...
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Referencing External Controllers in ASP.Net Core 3.x
I recently had a situation where I needed to include a utility controller and set of operations into every .Net Core Web API that used a common in-house framework. The idea being that by baking this...
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List all Transitive Dependencies in your .Net Core Project
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com Sometimes you need to find out what packages a .Net Core project or solution depends on quickly and whilst you can find this information in the Visual Studio...
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