NuGet restore failing in Docker Container
I was tempted to write about this before, but I didn’t as there is already a very good, highly rated stack overflow answer with the solution. However, I’m just reinstalling Docker desktop and getting things working again and I wish…
Blocked by CORS policy? Unblocking in .Net Core 3
A while ago I wrote an post about hosting Angular under an existing IIS website. Quite a few people seem to have found it useful which is good. My motivation was to avoid CORS policy errors i.e blocked JavaScript requests…
Why I’m uninstalling Docker Desktop
It might be the parting of the ways for me and Docker Desktop for now. There have been good times. There have been bad times. But it’s relentless demands have become too much for one software developer to bear. I’ve…
80/20 rule for blogs
There is a pithy saying I’m fond of The first 80% of a product features will be developed in 20% of the time The last 20% of a product features will be developed in 80% of the time I think…
Publishing SQL Server database in Docker
To me docker containers have an ethereal, almost unreal quality to them. Do they really exist? Where are they? What do they look like? To convince myself of their reality I want to use SQL Server Management Studio on the…
The process cannot access the file error with Docker Compose
I came across this error the other day when I was working on windows with Docker Cannot start service db: failed to create endpoint dotnet-album-viewer_db_1 on network nat: failed during hnsCallRawResponse: hnsCall failed in Win32: The process cannot access the…
Dynamically Loading Assemblies for Dependency Injection in .Net Core
We want to get all our assemblies registered for Dependency Injection in a .Net Core 3 application by scanning the bin folder and registering all the classes which implement a specific interface. Bit of a mouthful so a simple (and…
Converting .Net Standard Libraries to .Net Core
I was looking for a quick answer to this on the internet and couldn’t find it. So here it is Open your .Net Standard csproj file in notepad or similar text editor. You’ll see this structure <Project Sdk=”Microsoft.NET.Sdk”> <PropertyGroup> <TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework>…
70-480 Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 – Study Notes
I recently took MS exam 70-480 (and passed and was surprisingly delighted). So before the good feelings dissolve away I thought I would publish a few notes and useful links. I’m not going to be comprehensive but I’m just going…
Extending TypeScript to serialise Map objects to JSON
The collection objects offered by ES6 such as Map and Set are indeed a marvel. One notable downside to them though is that they don’t serialise to JSON. For example JSON.stringify(MyMapObject); Results in {} Always – irrespective of what is…
