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Encrypting an ASP.NET web application connection strings by directory

To encrypt an ASP.NET application’s connection strings?by the path of the application, navigate to the .NET framework folder ?%windows%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\versionNumber Open the command prompt as administrator and point to the .Net directory and run the command ASPNET_REGIIS -pef “connectionStrings” “C:\Inetpub\<Application Folder>” (Point to the directory not the web.config file) If successful the following should be displayed.

ASP.NET Web API – Returning javascript friendly (camelcase) json in two lines of code

Naming conventions of properties defer slightly in .NET and JavaScript. .NET uses?pascal-case and JavaScript uses camel-case. When developing a .NET API all the public properties should use the naming convention pascal-case. However if the service is consumed as an API with a JavaScript client then the json returned should be camel-case. Now you could go and add the… Read More »

Setting up a Visual Studio 2013 web application project for Octopus deploy

Preregisters: Octopus Deploy plugin already installed in TeamCity and Octopus Deploy already setup. Please note: This guide will not run through setting up deployment steps in Octopus Deploy. Guide is based on setting up a web application in Visual studio 2013. Will not show how to actually replace values in a web.config using a transform config. 1)… Read More »

Using PowerShell to add new child node in element

Code template: ‘ParentElement’ is the name of the element which you want to add the new child to. Always remember to save the file or it will not be updated.

.Net Basics – Parameter Referencing

As a developer who thinks in C# but who works with VB from time to time, I tend not define if a parameter is ByRef or ByVal unless I have to. I have also at times needed to describe why an application wasn?t breaking when I was assigning a value to an object?s property in a called function… Read More »

Enable Visual Studio 2015 to download Bower packages

If like me you work behind a firewall you may find Bower is unable to install packages. To enable this open up ‘GIT CMD’ and run: git config –global url.”https://”.insteadOf git:// Then restart Visual Studio and retry.

SignalR: Setting up a Hub to handle server events

This is a simple how to (code provided), on quickly setting up a SignalR Hub to broadcast server raised events to?clients

Search KendoUI Grid dataSource with a textbox

Here is some code to add a textbox to search a kendo grid, which as a user types filters (client side) the data which?the grid is bound to. As you will be using the textbox?class?to attach the event which will be raised when the user types and setting the id of the grid and the fields which you… Read More »