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My (bad) customer experience with SEMrush The top rated SEO platform for managing online visibility doesn't seem to have a customer & sales support good enough to match its reputation

November 6, 2020November 6, 2020 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you are a bit passionate about SEO and online marketing, you have probably already heard of SEMrush, an extremely sophisticated platform that offers solutions to manage all aspects of …

Cloud / JavaScript / Servers & Services / Tools & Utilities / Web

REPflare: a Cloudflare Worker to replace text and inject content A lightweight Cloudflare Worker that can be used to replace text and inject styles and scripts in any web page

November 2, 2020April 18, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In this post we'll talk about REPflare, a lightweight Cloudflare Worker that can be used to perform text replacement tasks as well as inject any kind of content (styles, scripts …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / JavaScript / Web

ASP.NET Core - Validate Antiforgery token in Ajax POST How to issue a proper Ajax POST request using jQuery or other JavaScript frameworks in an ASP.NET Core application with the Antiforgery Middleware and AntiForgeryToken enabled

October 30, 2020April 17, 2021 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

If you've stumbled upon this article it most likely means that you're looking for a way to validate your ASP.NET Core Antiforgery Token when issuing an Ajax POST using jQuery …

ASP.NET / C#

System.Linq.Dynamic.Core - Case insensitive Contains() How to use the Contains() method in a case-insensitive way using Entity Framework Core and System.Linq.Dynamic.Core

October 28, 2020October 28, 2020 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

A few days ago we published a small post explaining how to perform a case insensitive Contains query using Entity Framework Core, since the Contains() method changed its behaviour from …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding

ASP.NET Core Server.MapPath equivalent How to access the absolute path to the application content files in ASP.NET Core Application just like we did with Server.MapPath using IWebHostEnvironment

October 19, 2020April 17, 2021 - by Ryan - 6 Comments.

If you've stumbled upon this post there's a high chance that you're a seasoned ASP or ASP.NET Web Developer who is trying to find an alternative to the good old …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Web

ASP.NET Core C# - Send email messages with SendGrid API How to send transactional e-mail messages from a ASP.NET Core C# web application using Twilio SendGrid API

October 18, 2020April 17, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

A few days ago we've published a guide explaining how to send email messages via SMTP with MailKit implementing a custom MailKitEmailSender class based upon the ASP.NET Core built-in IEmailSender …

Coding

Entity Framework Core: case-insensitive Contains() In Entity Framework, the Contains() method used to be case-insensitive: however, such behavior has been changed in EF Core. Here's how to revert it back and perform case-insensitive searches

October 15, 2020April 17, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Today I was working with EF Core and I was implementing some IQueryable filters using this guide. When I was performing my unit tests to see if I did everything properly …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / SQL / Web

ASP.NET Core SQL Server and MySQL database logging with Serilog How to use the ASP.NET Core's built-in ILogger logging API to write application logs to SQL Server, MySQL and/or MariaDB using Serilog logging provider

October 15, 2020April 17, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In this article we'll see how to take advantage of Serilog, a neat open-source diagnostic logging library for .NET applications, to log our ASP.NET Core web application’s data to a …

Coding / JavaScript / Linux / Servers & Services / Software / Tools & Utilities / Windows

Electron: build a Linux package from Windows using electron-builder and Docker How to build an Electron App in a distributable format for Linux (AppImage, deb, rpm, snap and more) from a Windows machine using electron-builder and Docker

October 5, 2020October 5, 2020 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you've stumbled upon this post it most likely means that you're struggling for a way to build your Electron app in a Linux distributable format such as the following: …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Cyber Security / Tools & Utilities

How to securely store passwords in Visual Studio 2019 with Manage User Secrets Securely manage Database credentials, API Keys and other user secrets using ASP.NET Core Secret Manager and Visual Studio Manage User Secrets features

October 3, 2020December 20, 2022 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Being able to securely store database password and API keys in web applications while maintaining full efficiency in terms of debug and testing has always been a challenge for all …