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ASP.NET Core C# - Send email messages via SMTP with MailKit How to send e-mail messages from a ASP.NET Core C# web application through any SMTP server using the MailKit NuGet package

September 29, 2020April 17, 2021 - by Ryan - 6 Comments.

In this article I will briefly explain how to implement the IEMailSender interface using MailKit, which will allow any ASP.NET Web Application to send e-mail messages using any SMTP server. …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Web

ASP.NET Core C# - How to lock an async method according to custom IDs Introducing LockProvider, a lightweight C# class that can perform sync and async locking for custom unique IDs using the SemaphoreSlim class

September 28, 2020March 19, 2021 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

If you're working with ASP.NET or ASP.NET Core C# and you need to prevent (or restrict) the access and/or execution of certain methods from multiple threads, the best approach you …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Web

Async, Await, Lock, Wait and SynchronizationContext in ASP.NET Core A general overview of the ASP.NET Core Task Asynchronous Programming model (TAP) and some basic concepts to asynchronous programming

September 28, 2020April 17, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

As you probably already know, all the ASP.NET Core Identity system API's relevant methods are asynchronous, meaning that they return an async Task rather than a given return value; for …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding

Visual Studio - Your project does not reference .NETFramework - How to fix How to fix the 'Your project does not reference ".NETFramework,Version=v4.7.2" framework' Visual Studio build error when upgrading the .NET Framework version of an existing Visual Studio ASP.NET project

September 1, 2020September 1, 2020 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you've stumbled upon this post, it most likely means that you've switched the .NET Runtime Framework of your ASP.NET project(s) to a newer 4.x version, such as .NET Framework …

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C# WebClient Class extension with a custom Request Timeout Introducing RyadelWebClient, a free and open-source System.Net.WebClient extension class featuring a customizable constructor and [Timeout] property

July 4, 2020July 4, 2020 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Today I had to fix an odd timeout issue that suddenly occurred to one of my ASP.NET web applications: when I looked at the logs, I easily figured out that …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding

Visual Studio Intellisense stops working when creating new files - FIX How to fix Visual Studio Intellisense errors when creating a new file

December 25, 2019December 25, 2019 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you've stumbled upon this post it most likely means that you're struggling with a strange issue with Visual Studio Intellisense: it seems to work fine for existing files, but …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding

ASP.NET C# class to check for Italian Tax Code / Fiscal Code / VAT ID A useful C# helper class to check for the formal validity of any Italian Tax Code / Fiscal Code / VAT ID - English version (Italian version available as well)

November 23, 2019November 23, 2019 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

There's no Italian programmer (or one who has worked in Italy) who has not had to deal at least once with Italian Tax Codes / Fiscal Codes: we literally run …

ASP.NET / Coding / Servers & Services

Create a Windows Service in C# using Visual Studio Quick tutorial explaining how to create and configure a custom Windows Service in C# with Visual Studio 2019

August 21, 2019February 29, 2020 - by Ryan - 3 Comments.

In this post I'll briefly explain how to create and configure a custom Windows Service in C# using Visual Studio 2019. Before we start, it could be wise to quickly …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding

MergeTIFF - Free tool to merge multiple TIFF files into one A lightweight, open-source .NET Core console application to merge multiple TIFF files in a single multi-page TIFF file - source code available on GitHub

July 29, 2019January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In this post, we'll talk about MergeTIFF, a lightweight .NET Core console application that merges multiple TIFF files (including multi-page ones) into a single multi-page TIFF file. The full source …

Coding

ASP.NET C# DateTime helper functions to add, subtract, calculate and get Business Days A set of useful DateTime-based helper classes to skip holidays and add-subtract-calculate business days (including Easter, Easter monday and other country-specific holidays)

June 19, 2019July 2, 2019 - by Ryan - 4 Comments.

Today I had to find a way to perform some rather "uncommon" DateTime-based operations: to be more specific, I needed to check if a date object resulting from a user …