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This chapter explains how to setup an application in case you want to use the OWIN (Open Web Interface for .NET) interface to be able to move your application between OWIN supporting hosts without making code changes. Requirements Version You will need Version 3.2.4 or newer, otherwise you will get a Ninject.ActivationException regarding HttpConfiguration. Installation via nuget First you have to add a reference to Ninject.Web.Common.OwinHost and Ninject.Web.WebApi.OwinHost either by adding the reference manually or installing the corresponding NuGet Package. ...

I absolutely forgot about the blog. My bad. Let’s add something interesting about C#. SharpRepository SharpRepository is a generic repository written in C# which includes support for various relational, document and object databases including Entity Framework, RavenDB, MongoDB, CouchDB and Db4o. SharpRepository includes Xml and InMemory repository implementations as well. SharpRepository offers built-in caching options for AppFabric, memcached and the standard System.Runtime.Caching. SharpRepository also supports Specifications, FetchStrategies, Batches and Traits. ...

A short update about safe file names in C#. Sanitize File Name in C# To clean up a file name you could do this private static string MakeValidFileName(string name) { string invalidChars = new string(Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars()) string escapedInvalidChars = Regex.Escape(); string invalidRegex = string.Format(@"([{0}]*\.+$)|([{0}]+)", escapedInvalidChars); return Regex.Replace(name, invalidRegex, "_"); } Working example you can find on dotnetfiddle

A short update about submodules in git. Git submodules Let’s start by adding an existing Git repository as a submodule of the repository that we’re working on. To add a new submodule you use the git submodule add command with the absolute or relative URL of the project you would like to start tracking. git submodule add https://github.com/forcewake/CommandPipeline By default, submodules will add the subproject into a directory named the same as the repository. ...

A short update about several interesting issues that i faced in today How-to use Protobuf You should install protobuf-net from nuget and then: // Explicit proto contract [ProtoContract] public class MappedEntity { [ProtoMember(1)] public int Id { get; set; } [ProtoMember(2)] public string Name { get; set; } } var entity = new MappedEntity { Id = 1, Name = "123" }; // Serialize/deserialize using protobuf-net byte[] serialized; using (var ms = new MemoryStream()) { Serializer.Serialize(ms, entity); serialized = ms.ToArray(); } MappedEntity deserialized; using (var ms = new MemoryStream(serialized)) { deserialized = Serializer.Deserialize<MappedEntity>(ms); } More information about usage, issues and problems in Protobuf you can get from this article in Russian ...

I’ve decide to start writing in my blog.. And I faced with several issues and strange things in the tools and frameworks. How-to install Sublime Text 3 with Homebrew It’s pretty easy to install it but for man who is moving from Windows to Mac OS it is rather hard to change mind. I did not have brew cask installed so I had to install it first, so these were the steps I followed: ...