Practical .Net Tips and Examples

Azure

Azure OWIN website login gets stuck on a never ending redirect loop

Run multiple scheduled tasks from a single Azure WebJob

Turn off Application Insights for non-release debug build configurations

C#

Add watermark text to an image

Azure OWIN website login gets stuck on a never ending redirect loop

Break a full file name path into its separate components

Find files in a folder by their last modified date

Get local timezone and time instead of UTC time

Make Entity Frameworks read lazy load collections and objects

MVC RedirectToAction passing route parameters

Read a csv file with embedded commas

Read a text file

Reading and writing to the registry

Send an email with the SMTP client

SQL Bulk Upload for Inserts or Updates

Using HttpClient to post JSON to a web api webservice

Write text to a file

Write to the Http Response to download data as a file

CSS / Less

Edit Bootstrap Less or Sass files in a Visual Studio web project

Network

Send an email with the SMTP client

Using HttpClient to post JSON to a web api webservice

Powershell

Create a self-signed certificate with PowerShell New-SelfSignedCertificate or Makecert.exe

Powershell script to run an exe, pass arguments and redirect output

Razor

Disable razor form submit button when clicked

MVC Editor Templates and Display Templates

MVC RedirectToAction passing route parameters

Security

Azure OWIN website login gets stuck on a never ending redirect loop

Create a self-signed certificate with PowerShell New-SelfSignedCertificate or Makecert.exe

SQL

Make Entity Frameworks read lazy load collections and objects

SQL Bulk Upload for Inserts or Updates

Text Files

Break a full file name path into its separate components

Find files in a folder by their last modified date

Markdown Cheat Sheet

Read a csv file with embedded commas

Read a text file

Write text to a file

Visual Studio

Edit Bootstrap Less or Sass files in a Visual Studio web project

Web.config

Redirect www requests to non-www requests using the rewrite module

Trapping 404 and 500 errors in an MVC website web.config

Turn off Application Insights for non-release debug build configurations

Using the rewrite module to redirect part of a website