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SignalR

Posted on July 26, 2017 by

Image courtesy of spacex / unsplash.com https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR/ Get real time communication between the client and the server. We use it to monitor jobs. SignalR supports Web Sockets, and falls back to other compatible techniques for older browsers.

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Toastr

Posted on July 19, 2017 by

Toastr is one of those GUI items everybody is familiar with. It is the standard in feedback on webpages. Adding this to your solution is almost mandatory. Continue reading →

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Common.Logging

Posted on July 12, 2017 by

Image courtesy of Ales Krivec / unsplash.com https://www.nuget.org/packages/Common.Logging/ Common.logging provides an abstraction for the logging framework of choice. For IoC the common.logging offers an interface. NoOpLogger is a fake implementation used for unit testing. I prefer to use the nuget from log4net with … Continue reading →

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Ajaxload

Posted on July 10, 2017 by

Just a tip for creating that loading image everybody uses or your custom version of it. Goto http://ajaxload.info

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AutoMapper

Posted on July 5, 2017 by

Image courtesy of Mike Enerio / unsplash.com https://www.nuget.org/packages/AutoMapper/ Mapping two objects using convention and coded/configurerd mappings. This comes in handy when moving through the layers of a solution (data > business > viewmodel) Every property with the same name is automatically mapper … Continue reading →

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Unity

Posted on June 30, 2017 by

Image courtesy of Tim Gouw / unsplash.com https://www.nuget.org/packages/Unity/ Dependency Inversion is one of the SOLID principles. An IoC container is a must for me when developing. Unity is my goto framework for the last year. I prefer Unity for it’s lifetime control options. Do … Continue reading →

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Outlook 2016 for Mac spellcheck default language

Posted on May 31, 2017 by

The spellcheck in Outlook 2016 for Mac was driving me nuts for some time now. Most e-mails I write are in Dutch and the spellcheck defaults to English (UK). My daughter concluded “a lot of squiggly red lines” on my … Continue reading →

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