When running unit-tets you will often want to read data from .txt or .xml files. On the runtime, these files have to be copied to the TestResults folder. By choosing Copy to Output Directory: Copy always or Build Action: embedded Resource for these files will not help and the file is not found when the unit-test runs.
Even though Gulp is a bit outdated task runner in web development, I am an old user of it, trust it and use it for the CSS generation in my blog. In this article we are going to see how I convert the SASS code into CSS, sanitize it and minify it.
Read the complete articleAll .NET programmers had dealt at least once on their career with a null reference exception on a code line they wrote. Most of the times a parameter of a method is null, the code is not aware of it and the parameter is being used inside the method, for example we are accessing a property of an object. Because the value of the object is null we are getting an exception on the runtime.
Visual Studio provides a way to inform / warn us about possible null references. Let us see how we can enable this feature on our C# project.
Read the complete articleA cool feature of C# that I lately used is the implicit operator keywords and with them we can define the way for converting one type into another one implicitly. A good scenario when you can use that is presented in this example.
Transforming a Web.config file based on the environment where an application is deployed is a common practice in .NET Framework applications to manage different settings like database connection strings, URLs, or other configuration values. In this article, we will see how to achieve this using the configuration transformation feature in Visual Studio.