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FtpWebRequest 30 minute time out

My code is experiencing a time out exception after exactly 30 minutes when downloading a large file over FTP. The server is [FileZilla](https://filezilla-project.org/) running on Windows. We have an S...

27 Feb at 15:53

How to access Route Data / Value Provider data in a service in ASP.NET Core?

I am attempting to write a [Policy-based Authorization Handler](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authorization/policies). The business logic of the handler needs to use the recor...

How to switch process in Visual Studio Diagnostic Tools Window?

In Visual Studio 2017 I would like to use the window to analyze my unit tests (x64), written in C#. However it always displays the message > Multiple processes have been debugged. This window only s...

17 Apr at 12:14

UTF-8 CSV file created with C# shows  characters in Excel

When a CSV file is generated using C# and opened in Microsoft Excel it displays  characters before special symbols e.g. £ In Notepad++ the hex value for  is: C2 So before writing the £ symbol to ...

15 Feb at 09:49

ServiceStack/NativeScript: Error saying "Cannot find name 'RequestMode'" for servicestack-client

I had the Groceries app working (NativeScript/Angular2) and then decided to replace some service calls with calls to a ServiceStack backend. So, I followed some instructions on [ServiceStack.net](http...

ServiceStack/TypeScript: The typescript-ref ignores namespaces (this causing duplicates)

I am learning NativeScript + Angular2 with ServiceStack in C# as the backend. For the app, I generated TypeScript classes using the `typescript-ref` command, for use with the `JsonServiceClient` in ...

ServiceStack's Funq type registration via reflection?

I've used Castle Windsor quite a bit. It has a really handy facility for registering types via reflection. So for example, I would do things like this at application startup: ``` container.Register...

If (instance) / implicit boolean conversion on a custom class

I have the following class: My question is: Can I check if Value is true, without `== true`? The operator override works, but can I also use it like so? Instead of (this works, but normally I omit the...

6 May at 20:41

ASPNET_REGIIS: Place AES key and IV into a KeyContainer

Is it possible to place an AES key and IV into a KeyContainer using ASPNET_REGIIS? If yes, how? I have created AesProtectedConfigurationProvider to encrypt web.config data using AES as opposed to T...

1 Mar at 05:52

C# - Sending Email - STOREDRV.Submission.Exception:OutboundSpamException

I am writing a small utility to help process some MySQL tasks every night and have it email my personal email if it fails (this is a personal project, so no company smtp server or anything, emails goi...

14 Feb at 02:14

Singleton httpclient vs creating new httpclient request

I am trying to create layer for webservice using HttpClient in my `Xamarin.Forms` mobile app. 1. without singlton pattern 2. with singleton pattern in approach i am creating new http client obje...

Why do my ServiceStack APIs seem to use an in memory Bearertoken for refresh until it expires

I have JWT Token based stateless Auth architecture. My client includes a valid RefreshToken token in all HTTP Requests to my ServiceStack APIs. The RefreshToken has a 7 day expiration, something lik...

14 Feb at 02:49

ServiceStack: AuthUser vs IAuthSession - how do I retrieve the AuthUser?

In previous Stack Overflow questions, @mythz tells about the Meta dictionary in the "UserAuth table". However, I cannot find any information on where the UserAuth "table" is or where the object can be...

2 Dec at 21:24

How to download file created in Colaboratory workspace?

I found many hints how to upload data into [Colaboratory](https://colab.research.google.com). But now I want to do opposite -> I want to download .csv I've created in Colaboratory workspace. How to ...

13 Feb at 19:30

Servicestack serverless example - authenticated services fail

We are trying to send another coder an example web page which contains javascript that authenticates to our ServiceStack service and then runs a sample service. That code fails when run in Chrome and ...

14 Feb at 13:9

Using Moq, System.InvalidCastException : Unable to cast object of type 'Castle.Proxies.ObjectProxy' to type

Can someone help me to fix this error message please? I don't understand why the cast doesn't work: > Message: System.InvalidCastException : Unable to cast object of type 'Castle.Proxies.ObjectProx...

13 Feb at 18:49

Localization of RequiredAttribute in ASP.NET Core 2.0

I'm struggling with localization in my new .NET Core project. I have 2 projects: - - I do not want to have separate language files for Models/Views etc. Microsofts documentation is not very clea...

13 Feb at 15:32

Entity Framework Core: A second operation started on this context before a previous operation completed

I'm working on a ASP.Net Core 2.0 project using Entity Framework Core ``` <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore" Version="2.0.1" /> <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFr...

8 Oct at 12:40

Move window when external application's window moves

I've got an always on-top application (basically a status display) that I want to follow around another program and always sit just to the left of the minimize button. I can get the `Rect` representi...

22 Dec at 01:54

System.Security.Permissions missing when invoking JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T> in .NET Core 2.0

I am currently looking at using .NET Core 2.0 so that I can run my app on multiple platforms. One thing I need to do is take an incoming string and deseralise it into an object. e.g. ``` var result...

13 Feb at 12:49

Operator '||' cannot be applied to operands of type 'bool?' and 'bool?'

I want to check if one of two strings contains a partial string. Knowing that firstString or secondString can be null, I tried the following: ``` string firstString= getValue(); string secondString...

15 Feb at 12:32

#if DEBUG vs if (env.IsDevelopment())

It seems that [Preprocessor Directives](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/preprocessor-directives/preprocessor-if) (`#if DEBUG`) and [ASP.NET Core Environment Name](ht...

12 Feb at 20:57

ServiceStack: Several logins from different devices (phone, web etc) - I want one session per device

The problem: it seems to me, like the normal and best way to look at sessions is: . So, you can have one session alive per device, meaning one session per web browser, per phone, tablet etc. You shoul...

16 Aug at 23:32

Why does RedisManager property removed from ServiceStack/Service.cs file?

Previously we had a RedisManager property in the version of 4.0.50 but in the latest version this property is removed. Can anyone know why it is been removed? What is the replacement for it?

Swagger TypeError: Failed to execute 'fetch' on 'Window': Request with GET/HEAD method cannot have body

I have added Swagger to my Spring Boot 2 application: This is my Swagger config: ``` @Configuration @EnableSwagger2 public class SwaggerConfig { @Bean public Docket api() { // @form...