Some tips on C# Generics
Defining interfaces You can define that a generic must implement an interface, which in essence allows you to know beforehand that a generic type will have a certain method (making it less generic)...
View ArticlePerforming queries in .Net with NEST
First of all, I created a document model in C# named EsOrganisation with some basic fields: [ElasticsearchType(Name = "organisation")] public class EsOrganisation { public Guid Id { get; set; } public...
View ArticleSetting up Neo4j to work with a C#.Net project
Just a quick guideline to refresh my mind: Installing Neo4j Server First, go to their website and download and install the latest version. If you are planning to use this installation for dev purposes...
View ArticlePerforming Queries with Kibana
Queries To get anything in the index: GET /_search {"query": {"match_all": {}}} To get a document type inside the index (dragon-dev is the index name): GET dragon-dev/organisation/_search {"query":...
View ArticleUpdating Node and npm in Visual Studio
Visual Studio comes now with its own default Node.js plus npm on first install (if chosen) which saves you time on first set up, but unfortunately it doesn’t make it so easy to update due to its...
View ArticleReducing local SQL Server DBs Disk space usage
First, you can check its Disk usage at: right click on database > Reports > Disk usage. Which also tells you how much space is used by data and how much for logging. 1. Remove full logging Right...
View ArticleParallel threads with C#
Example of some code where I decided to take the data from the DB in batches instead than all in one go, which was timing out. This could have been done one after the other, just waiting for the...
View ArticleAdding an SVG with HTML5
When it comes to add an SVG to the page, so display an small icon or a big image, there are different ways to do it with pros and cons: Using the “object” tag I believe this to be the most common...
View ArticleEmail templates
Creating email templates can be a tedious task, with so many rules between different email readers, most of CSS not really working and us devs now so used to SASS or LESS, just the idea that they still...
View ArticleCreating AWS Lambdas with Visual Studio
Fair warning AWS Services are in constant change and evolution. Check the date of this post as in the last 18 months there's been new stuff added to those services and I expect more to come in the next...
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Salesforce Pardot forms
What is a Pardot form? Salesforce Pardot forms are a combo between a user tracking script that registers users navigation throughout your website and Form registration like the form-to-lead approach...
View ArticleWeb Development resources
A few links to resources to build your own website FreeFrontEnd.com Website with free stuff to add to your website, like this list of CSS loaders. Unsplash A database with thousands of great Creative...
View ArticleSome notes on Blazor
What is Blazor? It’s a new .Net technology that allows to implement web’s client side codes using C# and compiling to Web Assembly, a new web standard that all modern browsers implement (it’s meant to...
View ArticleGoogle ReCaptcha v2 and Angular1
A bit obsolete but still of use if you got a legacy project with these. Google ReCaptcha In order to include Google ReCaptcha in your website you need a Google account and get into the “Google...
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