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How to fix Windows Update Error 0x80004005 A small guide explaining how to get rid of the nasty Windows Update Error 0x80004005, often related to I/O and FileSystem related issues

November 17, 2020November 17, 2020 - by Alice - Leave a Comment

After some years of worldwide usage, we can say that Windows 10 fully demonstrated to be one of the most stable Windows operating systems when you consider the the fairly …

Ecco perché NON dovresti comprare un SSD Sabrent Rocket

Hardware / RAM, HDD & SSD

Here's why you should NOT buy a Sabrent Rocket SSD A list of good reasons to stay away from the Sabrent Rocket line of SSD drives, especially the Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280

November 11, 2020December 14, 2020 - by Ryan - 38 Comments.

DISCLAIMER: all the opinions expressed in this article represent the personal belief of the author and are in no way oriented by commercial relations of any kind with Sabrent or …

Cloud / JavaScript / Servers & Services / Tools & Utilities / Web

REPflare: a Cloudflare Worker to replace text and inject content A lightweight Cloudflare Worker that can be used to replace text and inject styles and scripts in any web page

November 2, 2020April 18, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In this post we'll talk about REPflare, a lightweight Cloudflare Worker that can be used to perform text replacement tasks as well as inject any kind of content (styles, scripts …

REPflare A lightweight Cloudflare Worker to replace text and inject styles and scripts in any web page

REPflare is born as a "spinoff" of CORSflare, a lightweight reverse proxy written in JavaScript that can be used to bypass most common CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing)restrictions: for additional info …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / JavaScript / Web

ASP.NET Core - Validate Antiforgery token in Ajax POST How to issue a proper Ajax POST request using jQuery or other JavaScript frameworks in an ASP.NET Core application with the Antiforgery Middleware and AntiForgeryToken enabled

October 30, 2020April 17, 2021 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

If you've stumbled upon this article it most likely means that you're looking for a way to validate your ASP.NET Core Antiforgery Token when issuing an Ajax POST using jQuery …

SEO & Marketing / Web

Top 5 SEO Tools For Marketing Agencies A list of the 5 best Search Engine Optimization tools that marketing agencies should be using in 2020-2021

October 26, 2020October 26, 2020 - by Alice - 1 Comment

If you are a digital marketing service provider, SEO rules your world. By July 2020, Google’s share in the search market was 86.86%. Closest competitor Bing had a 6.43% share …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Web

ASP.NET Core C# - Send email messages with SendGrid API How to send transactional e-mail messages from a ASP.NET Core C# web application using Twilio SendGrid API

October 18, 2020April 17, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

A few days ago we've published a guide explaining how to send email messages via SMTP with MailKit implementing a custom MailKitEmailSender class based upon the ASP.NET Core built-in IEmailSender …

Coding

Entity Framework Core: case-insensitive Contains() In Entity Framework, the Contains() method used to be case-insensitive: however, such behavior has been changed in EF Core. Here's how to revert it back and perform case-insensitive searches

October 15, 2020April 17, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Today I was working with EF Core and I was implementing some IQueryable filters using this guide. When I was performing my unit tests to see if I did everything properly …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Cyber Security / Tools & Utilities

How to securely store passwords in Visual Studio 2019 with Manage User Secrets Securely manage Database credentials, API Keys and other user secrets using ASP.NET Core Secret Manager and Visual Studio Manage User Secrets features

October 3, 2020December 20, 2022 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Being able to securely store database password and API keys in web applications while maintaining full efficiency in terms of debug and testing has always been a challenge for all …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding

How to check if a number is a multiple of another in ASP.NET C# A minimalistic extension method written in C Sharp that can be used to determine if an integer is a multiple (or a dividend) of another integer

September 30, 2020January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Today I needed to find a quick way to programmatically determine if a given integer number (Int32) was a multiple of another integer number: as a matter of fact I …