When developing with ASP.NET Core or .NET Core if you need to generate a SOAP service reference you have a few options. You can use ServiceModel Metadata Utility Tool (Svcutil.exe) to generate the reference code in a console window. I use this method quite often because when I begin interacting with a SOAP service I … Continue reading Calling a SOAP Service from ASP.NET Core or .NET Core

I assisted a co-worker today with an issue where the Package Manager Console would not start in Visual Studio 2015 or Visual Studio 2017. These are the errors that were being display on the console: It was a brand new Windows 10 machine running build 10.0.14393 version 1607. There are known bugs with Visual Studio … Continue reading Visual Studio Package Manager Console Fails to Start

I added a Nuget package to an application recently and when I tried to run the app I got the following error message. “Unhandled exception: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly ‘application name, version=4.0.0.0, culture=neutral, publickeytoken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’ or one of its dependencies. Strong name validation failed.” It turns out the Nuget package was not strong-named. … Continue reading How to Assign a Strong Name to Unsigned 3rd-party Assemblies During the Build Process

I had the opportunity to attend the Microsoft BUILD conference in Seattle last week and wanted to capture all the notes I had taken while I was there. I have broken the notes into 5 categories. There was over 300 sessions so there was a lot more covered that I didn't have the opportunity to … Continue reading Microsoft BUILD Conference Notes

Tags: GraphQL I was preparing for a presentation to my team at work on GraphQL and thought that it would be good to share the material on my blog. My two primary sources for learning GraphQL have been the GraphQL.org site and this course on PluralSight Building Scalable APIs with GraphQL by Samer Buna. I … Continue reading Introduction to GraphQL

Tags: DomainDrivenDesign; This article is a continuation of a series on building the Person Service. Here is the list of articles in the series. Getting Started Building the Person Service In this article I am going to define the domain model for the Person Service. Our primary entity in this system will be a person. … Continue reading Structuring Your Domain Model

The Issue So I had an interesting learning opportunity this weekend about heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) diagnostics and repair. Late Friday afternoon my wife noticed that it was getting warm on the main floor of our two story house so she went to the thermostat only to find nothing being displayed on the … Continue reading Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Repair