This is an oldie but goody… the gist is that even latest Windows 10 still ships with working IExpress.exe which is a self extracting exe builder! Who knew. In my case, very handy for bundling a batch file and it’s dependencies into a single exe for a buddy. For the record, I started out with […]
VS Code, Typescript – Bare Metal New Project
i’m basically following this guide, while humbly attempting to trim down to bare necessity and re-align configs with crucial bits that’ve shifted since then… and likely to continue shifting 😐 install Node… there’s many ways but their setup.exe is handy… this includes npm from cmd.exe: npm install -g typescript (-g means globally vs project specific) […]
Syncfusion Xamarin.Forms SfDataGrid – Binding to List<Dictionary<,>>
corresponding syncfusion forums post Binding to Collection<Dictionary<,>> can be accomplished but doesn’t appear to be well documented… this WPF SfDataGrid doc gave the clue. The basic trick is to set the SfDataGrid’s column.MappingName = “Fields[FieldName]”; where Fields is a Dictionary property on your DictionaryWrapper class. I couldn’t get List<Dictionary<string, object>> working directly without the wrapper […]
Android Emulator Nuggets
Installing Google Play This worked very nicely minimally for Android v7.1.1 “with Google APIs”… Need to launch emulator.exe with -writable-system -selinux permissive args grab the version of OpenGapps you want Basically follow this guide but stop at “Restarting and Creating another Image” Then adb root & adb remount and I found that I just needed […]
[SOLVED] Xamarin Forms iOS build error: An inconsistency between the local app and the remote build has been detected for _____. Please rebuild the application and try again.
there’s tons of hits on this but for me it seems to somehow be a “corrupt” solution file… solution == new solution ; ) i spun up a new xam cross platform project solution and simply readded my existing PCL and iOS projects from the broken solution and it built and deployed to simulator just […]
ASP.Net Controller API nuggets
Write Directly to Response Stream Stack-o basically covers this already but kinda danced around how minimal the code can really be for the basic scenario…
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//ignore this... //e.g. $.ajax(url, { procName: "", parms: {deliveryDate:"3/2/2016"}, returnParmName: "" }, ...) public class GenericProcArgs { public string procName { get; set; } //from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5022958/passing-dynamic-json-object-to-c-sharp-mvc-controller //super convenient way to receive JS object with arbitrary properties to be fed straight to proc parms public dynamic parms { get; set; } /// <summary> /// whether to titleCase the JSON property names (handy for feeding auto built datagrids) /// </summary> public bool titleCase { get; set; } = false; public string returnParmName { get; set; } } //here's the beef... public ActionResult GetProc(GenericProcArgs args) { Response.ContentType = "application/json"; using (var proc = new Proc(args.procName)) { proc .AssignParms(args.parms as IDictionary<string, object>) .ExecuteJson(Response.OutputStream, args.titleCase); } return new EmptyResult(); } |
in my experience, the ContentType wasn’t even necessary but it feels like good practice here i’m using a database layer represented by my own custom Proc class… which is […]
Kendo UI Nuggets
Grid doesn’t like spaces in dataSource field names (I happen to be subscribing to KnockoutJS observable here to receive data feed but that naturally depends on your framework of choice.) Typical Kendo JS error: invalid template Particularly note the way the columns property is generated.
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sigCapVm.packingSlips.subscribe(function (newval) { var gridPackingSlips = $("#gridPackingSlips"); var kgrid = gridPackingSlips.data("kendoGrid"); if (kgrid && kgrid.columns.length) kgrid.dataSource.data(newval); else { if (kgrid) kgrid.destroy(); gridPackingSlips.kendoGrid({ //workaround for autogenerating columns with spaces //from: http://www.telerik.com/forums/field-name-with-space-and-other-than-numeric-creating-issues-to-load-the-grid#23fk8zzWZkioYCn7Tr4xFg columns: $.map(Object.keys(newval.length === 0 ? {} : newval[0]), function (el) { if (el.startsWith("<em>")) return; //by convention, don't show fields starting with "</em>" return { field: '["' + el.replace("#", "\#") + '"]', title: el } }), //hash aka pound (#) is special character in kendo template syntax dataSource: { data: newval }, noRecords: { template: "no records found for those inputs" }, height: "20em", change: function (e) { //good to remember that we're not doing a true knockout binding here vs setting the grid's dataSource.data property above //so we have to "manually" connect the selected row back to the viewmodel here var selectedPackingSlip = e.sender.dataItem(e.sender.select()); var vm = ko.contextFor(gridPackingSlips[0]).$root; vm.selectPackingSlipId(selectedPackingSlip._PackingSlipId); }, resizable: true, //scrollable: false, sortable: true, filterable: false, selectable: true }); }; }); |
Nuget Cheatsheet
tip command line uninstall all packages matching pattern get-package | ? {$_.Id -like “Human*” } | % { uninstall-package $_.id } 1 speaking of Humanzier, just install Humanizer.Core to get English only ↩