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ASP.NET/ServiceStack Root URL at startup

I'm trying to setup a ServiceStack template loosely based on the existing ASP.NET with razor template. The services to be created using this will be hosted in a variety of locations. What I would like...

19 Jan at 09:33

EntityFramework insert speed is very slow with large quantity of data

I am trying to insert about 50.000 rows to MS Sql Server db via Entity Framework 6.1.3 but it takes too long. I followed [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/5942176/2956448). Disabled AutoDetect...

23 May at 12:34

How to throw an exception in an async method (Task.FromException)

I just discovered that, since .NET 4.6, there is a new method [FromException](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threading.tasks.task.fromexception) on the `Task` object, and I was wo...

18 May at 01:39

Why can't I change my input value in React even with the onChange listener

I am quite new to React and after going through some tutorials, I was trying the below code of mine. I made one component, passed props to it from a store, on `componentWillMount` I make a new state f...

27 Aug at 18:18

TempData null in asp.net core

I am trying to use TempData in asp.net core However I am getting a null value on the get method of TempData. Can anyone please let me know how can I use TempData in asp.net core Below are the things ...

Handle DTOs with interior objects when posting a file with request DTO to a server in servicestack

I am trying to pass both a file and a request DTO to servicestack using `JsonServiceClient` and it's `PostFileWithRequest<ResponseType>(fileStream, fileName, RequestType)` function. The issue arises...

19 Jan at 02:8

GZIP in .net core not working

I'm attempting to add Gzip middleware to my ASP.net core app. I have added the following package : > "Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression": "1.0.0" In my startup.cs for the Configure Service...

19 Jan at 01:25

AuthenticationContext.AcquireTokenAsync

I would like to be programmatically able to get a token from Azure. I call `GetAToken().Wait();` and it fails. and the method is:

7 May at 07:19

ISO UTC DateTime format as default json output format in MVC 6 API response

Does anyone know how to configure MVC6's json output to default to a ISO UTC DateTime string format when returning DateTime objects? In WebApi2 I could set the JsonFormatter SerializerSettings and co...

3 Dec at 14:9

C# - Export .pfx certificate and import it later as a file

I basically need to export a `.pfx` certificate as a `Base64string`, store it in a database and recover it later, converting from `Base64string`. What I'm using at the moment is the `X509Certificate2`...

7 May at 02:10

python pip on Windows - command 'cl.exe' failed

I'm trying to install spaCy using `pip install spacy` but I'm getting the following error .. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/z2W1Y.png) I have VS 2015 installed, and I have the following Python install...

23 May at 12:10

Hangfire DistributedLockTimeoutException when calling the same static method concurrently

I have a web service that, when posted to, queues up downloads of images in Hangfire, so that if the image download fails, Hangfire will automatically retry: ``` [AutomaticRetry(Attempts = 5, OnAttem...

19 Jan at 08:13

Unit testing a Web API controller

I am fairly new to unit testing and I am trying to create a unit test for a Web API contoller that I have created which returns a list of brands. My Web API controller `Get()` method looks like this:...

Intellisense deleting code as I type

Intellisense (or Resharper) is occasionally deleting my C# code as I write it. It's occuring in declarations and in method calls, and seems to be triggered by a comma or open bracket. The Undo history...

Find non-awaited async method calls

I've just stumbled across a rather dangerous scenario while migrating an ASP.NET application to the async/await model. The situation is that I made a method async: `async Task DoWhateverAsync()`, cha...

18 Jan at 15:57

Unity - IEnumerator's yield return null

I'm currently trying to understand IEnumerator & Coroutine within the context of Unity and am not too confident on what the "yield return null" performs. At the moment i believe it basically pauses a...

19 Jan at 11:10

Docker-compose container using host DNS server

I'm running several containers on my "Ubuntu 16.10 Server" in a "custom" bridge network with compose 2.9 (in a yml version 2.1). Most of my containers are internally using the same ports, so there is ...

21 May at 13:50

Handle variable number of out parameters with less code duplication in C#

I'm trying to write a function that populates strings with the contents of an array, or sets them to null. The number of strings is can vary and I don't want to add requirements like them all being pa...

23 May at 11:53

Git how to clone with SSH key, username

I have the following and i need to clone the repository in either windows terminal command prompt or linux. - - - I tried as : ``` git clone git@xxxxx.com:xxx/xxx/git ``` I get ``` Permission denied...

18 Jul at 14:52

Programmatically change custom mouse cursor in windows?

I am trying to change the windows cursors (the default is Windows Custom Scheme) to my custom cursors (It named Cut the rope): [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HAsnz.png) Is there any idea to change al...

10 Jan at 04:49

Include pdb files into my nuget (nupkg) files

I am using MSBuild to generate my nuget packages. Is there any command I need to set, to allow it to include my `.pdb` files, for stepping into the source while debugging? I do not want the source f...

18 Jan at 07:35

What are advantages of capturing the Infomessages of SQL connections?

I'm currently reviewing/redoing code of a collegue of mine and stumbled upon a construct I've never seen done before: ``` con = new SqlConnection("Data Source=....."); con.FireInfoMessageEventOnUserE...

18 Jan at 08:7

Entity Framework Core cascade delete one to many relationship

``` public class Station : IEntitie { [Key] [DatabaseGenerated(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity)] public int Id { get; set; } public virtual ICollection<RegulatorySchedule> Regulatory...

Keras, How to get the output of each layer?

I have trained a binary classification model with CNN, and here is my code ``` model = Sequential() model.add(Convolution2D(nb_filters, kernel_size[0], kernel_size[1], border_...

Create directory async (without using FileSystemWatcher)?

How can I make make the following code run asynchronously without having to create an extra thread on the thread pool (in other words without `Task.Run(...)`)? ``` Directory.CreateDirectory("\\host\...

18 Jul at 12:30