Category Archives: c#

C# Lists in Lists – Getting all inner values, or the unique inner values

Posted on January 24, 2022 by briancaos

Getting the inner value of a list inside a list can seem complicated in C#, but LINQ makes it easier. But first let’s make a list in a class, and then make a list of the class with the list … Continue reading →

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Sitecore create custom Content Editor Warnings using Conditions and Rules

Posted on January 21, 2022 by briancaos

The Content Editor Warnings are these yellow boxes that hover over your content in the Content Editor in Sitecore: In the old days we would make them by hooking into the getContentEditorWarnings pipeline. Nowadays we use the Sitecore Rules engine. … Continue reading →

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C# and Microsoft.ML. Removing words from sentence. Getting started with Machine Learning

Posted on January 7, 2022 by briancaos

Microsoft.ML is the NuGet package for ML.Net, Microsoft’s open-source Machine Learning framework. In this introduction I will create a stopword engine, capable of removing unwanted words from a sentence. I know that it is overkill to use machine learning to … Continue reading →

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Run parallel tasks in batches using .NET Core, C# and Async coding

Posted on November 17, 2021 by briancaos

If you have several tasks that you need to run, but each task takes up resources, it can be a good idea to run the tasks in batches. There are a few tools out there, and one of them is … Continue reading →

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C# Working with Namespaces in XDocument and XML

Posted on October 28, 2021 by briancaos

XDocument is your old XML friend in C#, and it allows you to create or manipulate XML documents. To work with namespaces, you must use the XNamespace class. This is an imaginary XML document (a Google Merchant Feed formatted one) … Continue reading →

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Write to SOLR from .NET Core

Posted on September 28, 2021 by briancaos

.NET Core supports the SOLR index through the SolrNet.Core NuGet packages. Here is how you update the index. STEP 1: THE NUGET PACKAGES You need the following NuGet packages: SolrNet.Core SolrNet.Microsoft.DependencyInjection STEP 2: CREATE A MODEL CLASS CONTAINING THE PROPERTIES … Continue reading →

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Sitecore publishItem pipeline – handling missing delete when publishing

Posted on September 23, 2021 by briancaos

When publishing items in Sitecore, the publishItem pipeline is called for each item that must be published, or unpublished. Except for children of items that have been deleted. Let’s take this example: If I publish the top item, the publishItem … Continue reading →

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Sitecore read from Custom Database

Posted on September 21, 2021 by briancaos

It is very easy to read from a custom database in your Sitecore code. STEP 1: ADD THE CONNECTIONSTRING TO CONNECTIONSTRINGS.CONFIG This is an example of a .config file that transforms the connection strings for existing Sitecore databases (like the … Continue reading →

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HttpClient follow 302 redirects with .NET Core

Posted on September 6, 2021 by briancaos

The HttpClient in .NET Core will not automatically follow a 302 (or 301) redirect. You need to specify that you allow this. use the HttpClientHandler to do this: Now your code will follow up to 2 redirections. Please note that … Continue reading →

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Create a custom Azure Dashboard Tile Using an Azure Function and Markdown Format

Posted on August 20, 2021 by briancaos

The tiles on an Azure Dashboard will only display data from Azure itself. So if you have data from the outside, like a database, you need to make a few workarounds. Now, you cannot make your custom tile as pretty … Continue reading →

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