Hi, I always forget those damn commands for adding and deleting submodules from a GIT repository. I thought it might be wise to put those commands on my website, for future reference. Adding submodules git submodule add https://github.com/dukeofharen/Ducode.Essentials Initializing submodules If you’ve already checked out your repository, but haven’t pulled the submodules yet, execute the following command. git submodule update --init --recursive Pull all changes for all submodules git submodule update --remote Deleting submodules Source: https://gist.

Welcome to my ultimate Windows tools list. This is the list with tools I always install when I install a fresh copy of Windows. This list is constantly updated. If you have any good suggestions, I’m open to it :) Just leave a reaction. Dev tools Notepad++ (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.html) Sublime Text (https://www.sublimetext.com/3) XAMPP (https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html) MySQL (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/) SQLYog (https://github.com/webyog/sqlyog-community/wiki/Downloads) Node.js (https://nodejs.org/en/) Oracle VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) dotPeek (https://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/) Fiddler (https://www.telerik.com/download/fiddler) LINQPad (https://www.linqpad.net/Download.aspx) Putty (http://www.

Hi, Whenever I’m working on a WebAPI solution, I always return to the problem on “how to let WebAPI return the content as plain text”. The answer to this solution is posted on StackOverflow. [HttpGet] public HttpResponseMessage HelloWorld() { string result = "Hello world! Time is: " + DateTime.Now; var resp = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK); resp.Content = new StringContent(result, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8, "text/plain"); return resp; } In the code above, a response message is created with which you can specify what kind of content type should be returned.

Hi, Use this handy little code snippet to find a free TCP port on your machine. I always use this so I can perform multiple in-memory WebApi unit tests at the same time. public static class TcpUtilities { public static int GetFreeTcpPort() { var listener = new TcpListener(IPAddress.Loopback, 0); listener.Start(); var port = ((IPEndPoint)listener.LocalEndpoint).Port; listener.Stop(); return port; } }

Hi, TLDR: Configuration validation using the .NET Core configuration and data annotations library. Not interested in reading the whole thing? The GitHub link to the repository is at the bottom of the page. The customer I currently work at has a large and very intricate collection of .NET reusable libraries. One of these libraries contains code to validate and read custom configuration sections in Web.config and App.config files. With the dawn of .

Hi, Everybody who works with Visual Studio (no matter which version) has probably, at some point, ran a “Clean solution” on the project, only to discover that nothing was cleaned. In other cases, your code doesn’t build for no reason. In this case, it might help to run this little PowerShell oneliner: Get-ChildItem .\ -include bin,obj -Recurse | foreach ($_) { remove-item $_.fullname -Force -Recurse } From the folder this script is executed in, it searches recursively to all folders named bin or obj and deletes those folders.

Hi, I’ve taken up blogging again. In the past I’ve written a lot of scripts and tutorials and put them online. I always hosted my blog on either WordPress or my own created blogging platform. I never liked both options (WordPress too bloaded / insecure and own blogging platform cost me too much time), so a little while ago I removed my blog. Thank goodness we are in an age where there is a type of blogging platform that is both easy to use, has a small footprint and is used if you value speed: the static site generator.

If you have a job and have to sit behind the PC a lot, you probably know the problem of not remembering what you’ve done earlier today (or even earlier this week). I also have the exact problem; for example, sometimes when I have to fill in the monthly hour form. Also handy for those daily standups. I’ve created a little command line tool which captures a screenshot every once in a while (you can set the interval in minutes) and saves it to a specific location on your PC.

Updated on 2019-04-19 Even though this code is very usable if you would like to learn about ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Core is the way to go for new projects. I might write this tutorial for ASP.NET Core at a certain point. The code is available on GitHub A few months ago, I’ve written a tutorial on how to create a URL shortener using Node.js, Express and MySQL (/posts/url-shortener-in-node-js-express-js-mysql-tutorial-learning-by-doing/). Since a few months, I’m a full time ASP.

A few years ago (in 2006), Bill Slawski posted an item on his blog on how many pages of a certain top level domain (e.g. .us, .com) were indexed on Google (you can find the article here). Since this is such a long time ago, I thought it would be nice to do the calculations again. In this post, you’ll see all existing TLDs (except for the internationalized ones), the most popular and the least popular.

Version 0.1 (21 February 2015) Download the source code here, or download the program (assembled for Windows) Desktop apps are dead, right? Not really by judging the number of stars Node Webkit has gained on GitHub. While most apps are deployed in the cloud nowadays, a lot of work is still done on our little local computers. Tools like text editors, markdown editors, games etc. are still mostly used offline.

Download the source code here. Node.js brings the power of JavaScript to the server. Its power lies in the fact that it has out-of-the-box support for WebSockets (realtime connections with the client application in the browser), so that it looks like a client app has real push message support, and that it can have many simultaneous connections. The Node package manager (npm for short) contains many production ready modules, under which Express.

This is The Netherlands. A small country in western Europe which borders Belgium, Germany, UK (maritime borders) and France (through Sint-Maarten, a municipality in the Caribean). Its capital (and largest city) is Amsterdam, while the biggest economic hub (and largest port of Europe) is Rotterdam. The population is just under 17 million, and the population density 406 people per square kilometer, which makes it one of the most densely populated countries in the world.