Paul Devenney

Using export configuration files in Orchard Import / Export

In the more recent versions of Orchard (I think it came in in 1.9) the export options available at Import/Export became much more powerful. One of the underused features (thanks to a lack of documentation) is "Upload a configuration file with recipe steps to e Read More

Serializing Enums to String in MVC6

Often you will want to change the default serialization of your API responses, to ensure that enums are reflected as strings, not integers. Why? Well, which is more self documenting? { "Status": 1, "Message": "things are on fire" } or { "Status": " Read More

Lamda expressions in unit testing are hard

So, it turns out that Lamda expressions are not great for unit testing. A recent example of code that I wanted to unit test: public async Task RegisterIndexAsync<T>(IFoundocIndex<T> index, CancellationToken cancellationToken) { //. Read More

How to Setup Async and Task Return methods with Moq 4.2

Moq 4.2 comes with a couple of nice changes that I hadn't noticed (and they are extension methods, so you might continue to miss them) The main benefit is allowing you to change from writing _mock.Setup(m => m.GetStateAsync(It.IsAny<Profile>())) Read More

The battle for the internet is back on....

Battle for the Net | What is Net Neutrality Read More