Author Archives: briancaos

About briancaos

Developer at Pentia A/S since 2003. Have developed Web Applications using Sitecore Since Sitecore 4.1.

C# Marking Deprecated Code As Obsolete

Posted on April 30, 2024 by briancaos

If a certain piece of code is no longer relevant or needed, or if it’s no longer maintained, you can mark it as obsolete. Use the [Obsolete] tag to mark the code. You can mark a function: Or you can … Continue reading →

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C# Game Of Life

Posted on April 16, 2024 by briancaos

The Game Of Life is a cell life simulator devised by the Cambridge mathematician John Conway. The simulator serves as an excellent coding example to learn new programming languages. The rules are simple. You have a grid in a predetermined … Continue reading →

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C# Connect to 2 or more databases using a Datacontext

Posted on January 29, 2024 by briancaos

This is more of a design pattern than it is a requirement. I use this technique when my application grows in size. When my application needs to connect to 2 or more databases, I use this encapsulation method to allow … Continue reading →

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C# SqlBulkCopy insert a list of objects

Posted on December 8, 2023 by briancaos

The SqlBulkCopy class is able to bulk insert data from anything that comes from a DataTable or can be read using a SqlDataReader. So what do you do if you have an array of objects? You have to convert the … Continue reading →

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C# Convert array of objects into a DataTable

Posted on December 8, 2023 by briancaos

This extension method lets you convert an array of objects into a DataTable. DataTables are used for SQL inserts. This solution is not mine, in fact it has been copied so many times that I don’t know who came up … Continue reading →

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C# Inject ILogger into Dapper Polly Retry Policy

Posted on November 22, 2023 by briancaos

There are many articles describing how to make a retry policy when using Dapper. I especially like this extension method implementation. But you cannot inject any class into extension methods because extension methods reside in a static class. Therefore you … Continue reading →

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C# Dapper Async Bulk Inserts

Posted on November 21, 2023 by briancaos

In order for Dapper to do bulk inserts, you need a third-party library: UPDATE 2023-12-08: Please note that Z.Dapper.Plus is a licensed product and you must pay to use it. For a solution without licensing, check out this article: C# … Continue reading →

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C# Dapper convert numbers to 2 decimals

Posted on October 30, 2023 by briancaos

I had this problem when inserting numbers into a SQL database using Dapper. All of my numbers did not round correctly when being inserted, even when using Math.Round() before doing the insert. My class is something like this: And before … Continue reading →

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Sitecore: Insert Link tree does not expand

Posted on October 2, 2023 by briancaos

In my development Sitecore, I had this strange situation that when I tried to insert a link, the tree would not fold out for certain items: I can see that I get the following error back from the /-/item/v1/sitecore/shell?sc_itemid= call: … Continue reading →

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Sitecore: Unable to load the service index for source https://sitecore.myget.org/F/sc-packages/api/v3/index.json.Sitecore – The remote name could not be resolved: ‘sitecore.myget.org’

Posted on July 31, 2023 by briancaos

Here is what you do if you receive messages like this: Errors in packages.config projectsUnable to find version ‘9.0.171219’ of package ‘Sitecore.Kernel.NoReferences’.https://sitecore.myget.org/F/sc-packages/api/v3/index.json: Unable to load the service index for source https://sitecore.myget.org/F/sc-packages/api/v3/index.json.An error occurred while sending the request.The remote name could … Continue reading →

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