British Developer

A blog about Microsoft's web development technologies written by a Brit.
Mainly ASP.NET MVC C# Entity Framework Azure Visual Studio and SQL

Wednesday, 7 December 2016

Reference object with ref keyword on a method. What's the point?

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I wondered the other day what the point is in making a method parameter a ref when it is already a reference type. After playing around for ...
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Tuesday, 22 December 2015

Stop processing OPTIONS requests for CORS in ASP.NET Web API

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I was attempting to allow some particular origins to access my ASP.NET Web API from a client side single page application. I was using the E...
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Thursday, 6 August 2015

Outbound IP address from Azure WebJobs or WebSite

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I need to find the outbound IP address of an Azure Website so that I can whitelist this IP address in a service I wish to call. However ther...
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Skipping unit tests is a false economy

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You only need unit tests if you write buggy code but why would I write bugs? I don't need them. For a long time I thought unit tests w...
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Friday, 17 May 2013

SQL MERGE that changes the ON constraint as it runs

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What happens when your MERGE statement INSERTs a row that now satisfies the ON constraint. If a new row comes along that satisfies the ON co...
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How to solve Introducing FOREIGN KEY constraint may cause cycles or multiple cascade paths

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I was writing my Entity Framework 5 Code First data models one day when I received a dramatic sounding error: "Introducing FOREIGN KEY ...
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Thursday, 28 February 2013

The request filtering module is configured to deny a request that contains a double escape sequence

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In IIS 7.5 I have a site that contains a page that takes an encrypted part of a URL. This encrypted string includes a plus sign '+' ...
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Saturday, 19 January 2013

Handler “ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0” has a bad module “ManagedPipelineHandler” in its module list

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How to fix the error 'Handler “ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0” has a bad module “ManagedPipelineHandler” in its module list'...
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Thursday, 17 January 2013

Finding Outlook Web Access (OWA) URL from Outlook 2010

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I was struggling to find out my Outlook webmail address from Outlook 2010 on my machine so that I can access my work email from home or on m...
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Monday, 14 January 2013

Web forms button click event not firing in IE

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There are probably many reasons why a button would not fire in an ASP.NET web forms application. Some can be fixed with deleting cookies and...
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Colin Farr
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I'm an ASP.NET/C# and SQL architect living and working in London, England. I have a BSc in computer science and am a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD).
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