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How to use Postman when testing .NET Core WebAPI actions with FromBody and FromForm attributes
Postman requires no introductions and plenty of resources about this tool can be found online. However, while testing I recently noticed, that the binding of JSON objects to C# primitive types or POCO classes is not documented in detail.
We are going to see different scenarios of binding while we test against a .NET WebAPI and try to answer the question “why my action is not getting called when everything is set up in Postman?”.
How to solve the 502.05 Process Failure error when debugging your application in Visual Studio
Recently while I was trying to test a demo application with .NET Core I came around the following error message when I was starting the application using F5:
A "work in progress"-list with the Docker commands I use the most
Since the start of 2019, I have been using Docker containers in the projects I work on. Working with a command line tool (Windows PowerShell, Shell, etc.) is essential when creating new containers. Below is a list of the commands I use the most:
Deserialize a JSON string into a C# object and set custom values into a property of that object
This week I had to deserialize a JSON string into a collection of C# objects. The class of these objects contained not only the properties that map directly to the JSON properties but also an extra property which I wanted to fill with values based on the values of other properties of the object.
Let us consider the following simple POCO class and its container, which is a simple array of Students: