.NET

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

Could not copy the file manifest because it was not found

This is an old chestnut that has maddened me for quite some time. It all starts with the error message C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Common.targets(4453, 5): error MSB3030: Could not copy the  Read More