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A custom tool ‘PublicResXFileCodeGenerator’ is associated… compiler warning
If you ever have a compiler warning saying A custom tool ‘PublicResXFileCodeGenerator’ is associated with file ‘blah’, but the output of the custom tool was not found in the project. You may try...
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Should I cycle: System design
I spent some time on the weekend thinking about Should I Cycle, the app I want to build. There’s two ways I could do it: standalone iPhone app or build an API iPhone app will call the API Given the...
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Should I cycle: choosing APIs
Since I’m going to have to build an API for my app before I write any code I’m going to think about what my API should look like. To do this I’m going to do some investigation of what APIs are out...
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Should I cycle: designing my API
Once I had determined I was going to use London Air API and OpenWeatherMap’s API it made it easy to design my own API. I find that documenting this process is essential as otherwise I would forget the...
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Should I cycle: implementing the API using Node.js
Now that I have my API defined, and it is pretty darn simple, it’s time to implement it. During my day job I write ASP.NET MVC websites and Web APIs, but part of the reason for doing a side project...
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Should I cycle: designing the UI
This is the sixth post in my series on building a mobile app, “should I cycle”. Now that I’ve got my API implemented I’m ready to build the client app. For my initial prototype I don’t really need any...
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Browse and debug an Azure web role website running locally on a mobile device
So, you’re developing an Azure website using a Web role, and now you want to see what that website looks like on a mobile device. First, follow my instructions here to set up port forwarding for your...
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Should I cycle: on hold for now
I started building a prototype for Should I cycle on iOS 8 and pretty early on I’ve hit a roadblock. What I wanted was a daily scheduled notification to popup telling me whether conditions were right...
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Run a Windows Azure cloud service locally without the Azure compute emulator
A big bugbear when developing Azure cloud services is the Azure emulator. You make a code change and the write – compile – debug process is slowed down big time because you have to wait for the Azure...
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Generating Swagger example responses with Swashbuckle
Swashbuckle is a tool for generating Swagger, the API description language, from your ASP.NET Web Api solution. Using Swashbuckle, which provides Swagger-UI, you can create pretty living documentation...
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Azure Emulator not working with SQL server alias
I just spent a few hours trying to figure out something that had me stumped. In my local dev environment I’m building a web api which has a SQL database. The connection string for the database is an...
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Generating Swagger example requests with Swashbuckle
This is a follow on from my post from last year about Generating example Swagger responses. It can also be useful to generate example requests, and in this post I will show you how. Create a new...
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OnePlus 2 = poo
I’ve been a long time iPhone user, first with a 3GS in 2009 and then an iPhone 5 in 2012. So at 3+ years old my iPhone 5 was getting a bit long in tooth. My colleague Nick at recently replaced his...
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On music consumption
This morning I was thinking about how my music listening has changed over the years. The very first album I bought was Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction, which I bought on a cassette tape with my...
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The decline of Apple
Back in the 90s hardly anyone used Macs or Apple products. They had a small foothold in schools and graphic design shops but that was about it. The iPod was the beginning of their post-millenium rise –...
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Add an authorization header to your swagger-ui with Swashbuckle
Out of the box there’s no way to add an Authorization header to your API requests from swagger-ui. Fortunately (if you’re using ASP.NET), Swashbuckle 5.0 is extendable, so it’s very easy to add a new...
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Run a Service Fabric solution locally without deploying to Service Fabric
This is a similar piece to another post of mine from a few years ago Run a Windows Azure cloud service locally without the Azure compute emulator So you’re working on a Service Fabric application which...
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How to include Swashbuckle .xml files in your Service Fabric project
If you’re using Swashbuckle’s IncludeXmlComments() option, then your build needs to output an XML file containing the various comments. By default, the XML file will not be included in your Service...
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As microservices architectures become more popular, so increases usage of NuGet as a way of sharing code amongst separate services. The last few projects I’ve worked on have typically contained a...
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Add an upload button to your swagger page
The swagger adventures continue… In .NET Core the current recommended way to upload a file in ASP.NET is with an IFormFile. If you’re using an IFormFile in your ASP.NET Web Api like so:...
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