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To use VSCode for .net core you would need Omnisharp extension so that we can debug our application just like as in Visual Studio. -- Photo by  SpaceX  on  Unsplash Using the dotnet new command we create a web and an API project dotnet new webapp appname.web dotnet new webapi appname.api Create a solution so that it wraps all the projects in one place dotnet new sln appname dotnet sln add appname.web appname.api After building the Web and the API projects we need to create the launch.json which VScode refers to build and debug the application. For a complete reference on doing these projects consider this great resource . You can always use VSCode terminal to run these above commands as well, also note you can open multiple terminals the same VSCode instance like this . Setup the launch.json by clicking on add configuration and select .Net core web app. we will need to add two such configurations one for web and another for web ap...

When developing a web application we separate our application with *.web being initial server-side application and  *.api application which will help us fetch/update data for client-side operations and avoid page reloads. Photo by  Vincent van Zalinge  on  Unsplash Here is .NET Core application I was working on which had a similar kind of ask, and I wanted to use VSCode to debug my application. This is how we do it, first, we need to create a solution so that we keep both the API and Web project in one place dotnet new sln -n appname dotnet sln add src/appname/appname.web.csproj dotnet sln add src/appname/apname.api.csproj Open "launch.json" and Click on add configuration and add then select .NET Core Launch (web)  No go ahead and rename to web or web-api, also add a development URL with a different than web configs the "env" property "env": { "ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT": "Development", "ASPNETCORE_URLS": ...

Docker is just amazing with flexibility we get to not worry about setting up the environments for our application. --Photo by  Ilse Orsel  on  Unsplash Download docker for windows . So with Windows we can use hyper-V and get containers spawned in minutes. Here is how we do it. Make sure you have Hyper-V enabled on windows if not go to turn on windows feature and turn this feature On. Once this is done with restart. Use Hyper-V Manager for Windows to create a Virtual Switch Now use the following commands to create the docker containers docker-machine create -d hyperv --hyperv-virtual-switch "Primary Virtual Switch" default this will create a VM, you can see this with Hyper-V manager or docker-machine ls once the machine is created you need to set some of the machine details in Environments Variables to list the variables use docker-machine env default Now set the env vairables as below using bash eval $("C:\Users\arjun_shetty\bin\...

Load Testing is quite a stream of its own all I did was smoothly sailed on top of it. With not much time in hand, the only weapon of choice was Jmeter, Well quite brilliant a tool!! We had to test a facebook chat-bot built with nodejs. This app is a webhook for FB to push the chat messages down to our app. This is how we achieved it On Windows: Download JMeter from  here . Now run the jmeter.bat, this will open up a java GUI where you can easily configure the endpoints you want to test. Add a thread group and set the number of users/thread you want to spawn to test your API Add an Http request sampler  Fill in the intuitive fields like URL, request body, Method, etc., For setting up HTTP headers like content-type or authorization fields right click on HTTP request and add config element HTTP header manager, then the key values as you may To see the results on all the requests that will spawn create add listener View results tree.  You are ready ...

Here is requirement I tripped into "Give me an option to upload multiple images which blah blah blah". Blah blah part is where it says do not use the easy way like input type multiple . Below is the POCO  for this sample which is the View Model Checkout the UIHint attribute which will let us use DisplayFor or EditorFor in any of the views To make this control reusable create a template File.cshtml which is type bound to custom Image type The jQuery script will copy the input type file element and appends to the last file element whenever a file is selected to upload on the input element. The Action here is to ModelBind image array to the action parameter The Bind  attribute takes care of the naming convention that takes behind the scenes when rendering the element. If you are using the template to render any element the framework will append the model property names of the nested elements. In this example it will render input element with name="PIma...

For those who hate to click more than required and like Scott Hanselman said  " There are a finite number of keystrokes left in your hands before you die. "  I definitely have very little left to spare and I am still writing this! - Check yours Here is one way of doing file upload in single click Keep fileupload control hidden using css styles On client click of the upload link button trigger the fileupload click event and return false so that server side click event is not fired Now bind an onchange event for the fileupload control Onchange event trigger the server side click event of upload link button On upload link server click save the file on server

Bitbucket lets you create free unlimited private repositories. Here are the simple steps to setup a project and push it to Cloud. Get this awesome native app for Git from here  Now create a Repository on Bitbucket Open up Git Shell and enter these simple commands >  cd /working project folder >  git init >  git remote add origin https://username@bitbucket.org/username/reponame.git Note:   If that above command says remote origin already exists try this below command >  git remote set-url origin https://username@bitbucket.org/username/reponame.git >  git add . >  git commit -m "first commit" >  git push -u origin --all DONE!!! your code on cloud. For reference on what each command does this is the place to go.