Joshua Chini

I am creating this list of software and services mainly for myself so that I can refer back to it when I need it. This list of software and services is what I am currently using at the time this article was last updated. There are several other great lists available online including Scott Hanselman’s…

Docker commands for a SQL Server container Basic command to start SQL Server container -p 1433:1433 Publish a containers port(s) to the host –name sqlserver_persondb Assign a name to the container -e sa_password= Set the system administrator (userid = ‘sa’) password used to connect to SQL Server once the container is running. The password must…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

Tags: PersonService At my company we have a service which provides information about all employees. The service has only one table and returns either a single object representing an employee or a DataTable containing information about one or more employees. The service gets it’s information from our HR system. The service allows you to specify…