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.