Once a database has been moved into SINGLE USER mode, it can be tricky to get it out of that mode. Usually, you will need to run [Read More]

This is my personal summary of the book Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow. It’s a recap to jog my memory, and may not be useful without reading the book. The book is short and to the point and well worth a read. [Read More]

Partials are a nice way in ASP.NET of sharing mark-up across views. These are usually rendered from within view markup, but sometimes you may want to render a partial from within a controller method - for example if you want to create an HTML email but don’t want to put... [Read More]

When writing .NET Core+ web applications, you will want your JavaScript files to be unminified in development, and minified when you release to production. You can use the “environment” tag helper to distinguish between the two, but this adds unnecessary noise and it’s too easy to change one and forget... [Read More]

I’m working on a project to create an SFTP Scheduler, and needed an SFTP server to test with. I work on Windows but have an Ubuntu virtual machine that I run through Hyper-V - and I didn’t realise how easy it was to set up a test server. For my... [Read More]