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Stackoverflow adventures: Creating custom Ghost helpers using apps

Oct 31, 2018

If you follow my blog, you might have read my previous posts about creating Handlebars helpers and adding it to Ghost to extend the platform's functionality. Those features were quite heavy-weight and the only way I could make it work was to dig deep into Ghost and integrate with the

Stackoverflow Adventures: Why can I not return a reference to a dictionary value?

Akos Nagy

Apr 11, 2018

A while back I found a question on SO about returning a reference to a dictionary value. Here's the code sample from the question that also explains the question itself: public class PropertyManager { private Dictionary<ElementPropertyKey, string> _values = new Dictionary<ElementPropertyKey, string>(); private string[] _values2 = new

Stackoverflow Adventures: If all you have is a hammer...

Akos Nagy

Nov 5, 2017

... you see everything as a nail. I'm usually not the one to cite clichés, but for this one I make an exception. It is very, very true, especially in the software engineering business. If all you know is foreach, you don't use SelectMany. If you only know the one overload

Stackoverflow adventures: Dependency injection on the loose

Akos Nagy

Oct 24, 2017

Sometimes I do these posts where I describe an interesting question on SO. And sometimes I do posts about dependency injection and dependency injection containers. Well, this time, these two series cross-over (the Avengers of blog posts :) ). So Autofac has a number of nice features described as implicit relationship types.

StackOverflow adventures: Checking key equality with generic primary keys in Entity Framework

Akos Nagy

Sep 22, 2017

You might have come across a design like this: you are using Entity Framework Code First, you have a base class that defines the primary key of the entities, and to have a more generic design, the PK is generic. Something like this: public abstract class EntityBase<TKey>

StackOverflow adventures: Don't create non-clustered index for foreign keys with Entity Framework Code First

Akos Nagy

Sep 20, 2017

I found an interesting question on stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46212828/ef6-preventing-not-to-create-index-on-foreign-key OP wanted to find a way to disable index creation for foreign keys. I don't believe there is an easy way to do this; my mind turned right to custom SQL generators and scaffolders. Using custom SQL

StackOverflow adventures: Specifying default sort order in EF using query interceptors

Akos Nagy

Sep 17, 2017

During the summer weeks, I was a little less active on stackoverflow. But now that the weather is becoming less and less friendly, I've reactivated myself and come across this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45999489/entity-framework-interceptor-default-sorting/46001440#46001440 So basically, OP wanted to find a way to automatically add

StackOverflow Adventures: Add custom info to Web API help page

Akos Nagy

May 1, 2017

I like stackoverflow. It provides me a way to keep in touch with the community, meet other schools of thought and test my knowledge on occasion. I like the interesting problems and questions. Take this one for example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42691154/provide-documentation-for-asp-net-web-api-method-with-a-dynamic-query-string The question goes like this: I'm

StackOverflow Adventures: DocumentDb and inheritance

Akos Nagy

Mar 27, 2017

I stumbled upon this question on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42858166/deserialize-json-into-multiple-inherited-classes/42858968#42858968 Here's the gist of it: OP wanted to store instances of different descendants of a class in DocumentDb and then read them back — but it wasn't working. So what's the problem? Inheritance, Json, Json.NET

StackOverflow Adventures: DocumentDb response chunking

Akos Nagy

Mar 17, 2017

Not long ago I stumbled upon this interesting question on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42600008/how-to-get-more-than-100-query-results-with-azure-documentdb-rest-api The asker used the REST API of Azure DocumentDb to query some data, but they could only get back the first 100 documents. If they used the .NET SDK, they could get all

StackOverflow adventures: Entity Framework Code First advanced mapping scenarios

Akos Nagy

Mar 5, 2017

A couple of days back I was lucky enough to answer this question on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42532083/how-to-map-a-property-to-a-different-table-using-entity-framework So basically the question was about how to split an entity into two tables. And this let me to writing this blog post on advanced mapping scenarios. When you