corresponding syncfusion forums post Binding to Collection<Dictionary<,>> can be accomplished but doesn’t appear to be well documented… this WPF SfDataGrid doc gave 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 class […]
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 ↩
Updating 2006 MacBook Pro to Windows 10
There’s a fair amount of noise to wade through out there on this topic… this post is a humble gathering of the current state, cira February 2017… once we get the various bits lined up, it’s surprisingly smooth sailing with FULL compatibility under Windows 10 x64, even the latest “Anniversary Edition”… over 10 years later […]
Fixing OpenSSL on WordPress Windows PHP 5.6+
Background: i ran into OpenSSL errors during the Disqus plugin setup. there’s tons of hits suggesting various solutions, below is the very simple solution that worked for me… Sample error messages: SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed Failed to enable crypto in … TL;DR: download latest cacert.pem place it in a pertinent folder (e.g. $\wp-includes\certificates) edit your […]