ASP.NET C# Helper Class to merge TIFF files into a single multipage TIFF

ASP.NET C# Helper Class to merge TIFF files into a single multipage TIFF A small yet useful Helper Class written in C-Sharp that can be used to merge multiple TIFF image files into a single multipage TIFF file

September 6, 2018September 6, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Multipage TIFFs are awesome, aren’t them? Well, actually not so much, especially considering the existance of better alternatives such as PDF files. That’s precisely why we published a post some …

Applications / ASP.NET / Coding

Visual Studio 2017 – Lost Razor Intellisense and Syntax Highlight – How to Fix it How to repair your Visual Studio 2017 installation and get back Intellisense and Syntax Highlight on your Razor pages & .cshtml files without reinstalling

August 20, 2018August 20, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Today I had to deal with a nasty issue that happened on my Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Edition, right after installing the VS2017 15.8.1 update. In a nutshell, I had lost …

ASP.NET / Coding / Web

ASP.NET MVC – Controller Subfolder Routing using Attribute Routes How to create a Route to a Controller that is inside a Subfolder in a ASP.NET MVC Application Project using the MVC 5 Attribute Routing Feature

August 13, 2018August 13, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

As you might already know if you’re using ASP.NET MVC, routing is how ASP.NET MVC matches a URI to an Action within a Controller. In the unlikely case you don’t know …

ASP.NET / Coding / Servers & Services / Tools & Utilities

ASP.NET C# – How to convert Office files to PDF using SyncFusion File Formats & Essential Studio A great third-party alternative to Office.Interop to programmatically create PDF out of MS Office Word, Excel and/or Powerpoint files

August 11, 2018August 16, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

A few months ago I’ve written a post here explaining how to programmatically convert MS Word DOC and DOCX files to PDF in ASP.NET C# using the Microsoft Office primary interop …

System.Web.HttpException (0x80004005): The application is configured to issue secure cookies - Cause e soluzioni del problema

ASP.NET / Coding / Servers & Services / Web

ASP.NET C# – The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm – How to fix it How to fix the "System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm" error by properly configuring the TLS 1.1 & TLS 1.2 cryptographic protocols

July 20, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you’ve stumbled upon this post, it probably means that you’re struggling against a nasty issue affecting one or more of your Web Application Projects when you publish it to …

MySQL - How to convert all Database Tables and Columns to a specific Collation

ASP.NET / Coding / SQL

Code-First vs Model-First vs Database-First: Pros and Cons A comparison of three different ORM Data Modeling Approaches: Code-First, Model-First and Database-First

June 17, 2018June 17, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

When working with object-relational mapping (ORM) frameworks such as Entity Framework, we often have to choose between one of the three available approaches to model the data structure: Model-First, Database-First, and Code-First. Each one …

ASP.NET / Coding / JavaScript / Web

Dependency Injection and Observables in Angular A practical explanation and some implementation samples of two key Angular concepts: Dependency Injection and Observables

June 17, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If we’re used to work with modern languages such as .NET Core, ReactJS, AngularJS, or Angular, we most likely already know what Dependency Injection (DI from now on) is and the huge amount …

ASP.NET Core 2 and Angular 5 book available for preorder on Amazon!

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The HTTP Request-Response Data Flow in Native Web Applications How the underlying HTTP Request-Response data flow works in a Native Web Application scenario

June 17, 2018June 17, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

As most of us already know, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is designed to enable communications between clients and servers. HTTP works as a request-response protocol between a client and …

ASP.NET / Coding

ASP.NET – Convert PDF to TXT (Plain-Text) or HTML in C# with iTextSharp An useful C# code snippet to convert PDF files into TXT plain-text or HTML in C# with iTextSharp, an open-source PDF management library for ASP.NET

May 28, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Today I had to find a quick way to programmatically convert a bunch of PDF files into txt / text / plain-text format within an ASP.NET web application. Unfortunately, there …

ASP.NET / Coding

ASP.NET C# – System.IO.IOException: process can’t access the file because it is being used by another process in File.ReadAllBytes – How to fix it

February 23, 2018March 11, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Any non-novice C# developer definitely knows the File.ReadAllBytes method, which is a widely used way to read a file contents in memory. The method is basically a wrapper that opens …