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blazor serverside oidc how to logout?

I have some Blazor server side app that uses our corporate OIDC. For startup I have: this simply works... redirects to login page / redirects back etc. OK and now I need to have some 'logout' button, ...

Extract Text from a LED Panel Image Using OCR

I have a LED panel from which I am trying to extract text. I applied some image processing techniques, and here is the result: ![](https://i.sstatic.net/vCHQpVo7.png) I want to convert the image to te...

14 May at 04:13

Is there a way to achieve Dependency Injection within the constructor of a SignalR Hub?

Good day all, in my SignalR Hub on my ASP.NET MVC Application i am trying to inject a "NotificationService" class into the constructor of my SignalR Hub. This is of course breaking the connection beca...

14 May at 04:42

How do I truncate strings with Humanizer without any suffix added?

Is there any way to use [Humanizer][1] to get a result similar to this? I don't want anything added (like `...`) to the right of my string. [1]: https://github.com/Humanizr/Humanizer

14 May at 06:3

Manipulating MS Excel ribbon interface externally

Having an standalone app (console, WPF, whatever) written in C# using Excel COM Interop. This app may add menus via Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application.CommandBars and subscribing for callbacks...

14 May at 06:13

Catching Propose New Time Event

I am developing a plugin for Outlook using C# VSTO and have come across the following problem: **When a user receives an invitation to a meeting, he/she can click on the “Propose new time” button.** -...

14 May at 06:11

Delay or Timer for a task service

I want to create a service what runs multiple tasks on different times. - every week on sunday 21:00 - every 15 minutes What is better to use here, a Timer or use the Task.Delay or something else.. bo...

14 May at 06:13

Access the list of data from another function

I have created a function for reading the data from excel file and stored as a list by rows and columns. Now I want use or access the data from the list to another functions using C# ```csharp public ...

14 May at 06:13

How to create multipart/related request in ASP .NET

SOAP server requires request with multipart/related content type. C# Code: Which creates a request with content type multipart/form-data , but how to create multipart/related request?

How to write integration test for SignalR

I use SignalR in my Web API. How to perform integration testing on it? I do not want to mock Hub I want to work on real instance of connection and check the results. Currently I have something like th...

14 May at 06:17

Adding Conditional HTML Ending and Opening Tags in .NET 8 Blazor Page

I am trying to find out what the recommended approach is for adding conditional closing and opening tags HTML into a .NET 8 Blazor Page such as to equally split up database records into 3 `` tags when...

14 May at 06:17

Will the C# compiler optimize away the re-evaluation of expression-bodied members?

If I write the following for a class member definition: My understanding is that the expression gets evaluated every time the member is accessed, so a new instance of `List` will get created each time...

14 May at 06:18

you should return the most specific type and accept the most generic one?

Many developers recommend: > you should return the most specific type and accept the most generic one I need to return customers for frontend to display them. Let's say I will use the class below in a...

14 May at 06:20

With a Source Generator, how to generate source using an aggregate of all transformed nodes?

Using a Source Generator, I want to generate a single file that is built using an aggregate list of all the transformed nodes (instead of one at a time). I'll use an Enum-based example as these are co...

Where to save access token with cookie authentication

I'm working on a project where I was mandated to save access_token and refresh_tokens inside the cookie as file/database written was prohibited. Please do not go into the mute discussion of better app...

Best practice regarding code in constructor for initializing in C#?

I am learning C# and learning about classes, and I have a question regarding best practices in class initialization and constructors. For instance, I was doing a practice exercise from Player's Guide ...

12 May at 04:13

EF Core transactions

There is probably already a good answer to this topic somewhere, but would love if you could help. I don't understand the point of using explicit transactions in ef core, for example: what was the pro...

What is the recommended way for using AddIdentity and AddMicrosoftIdentityWebApp together in an asp.net core mvc application?

We're creating an application where the user can log in using username/password or as an alternative use an external IDP like Microsoft Entra. Before support for the external IDP was added, the applic...

How do i get a useful median for 3D positions?

I have made a useful median for 2D positions by taking the average median of the x positions of the positions rotated in every 360° direction. The angleDiffs are the degrees of freedom, that the rotat...

12 May at 04:24

How does UseRandomizedStringHashAlgorithm help against hash flooding attacks?

I read this [article][1] about `GetHashCode()`. It talks about how randomizing the hash function can help prevent hash flooding attacks. Stephen Toub also said in a [comment][2], the reason to use a r...

12 May at 04:24

Linux compatible .net 8.0 high precision fixed timer

I've been trying to implement a higher precision timer to my C# Raylib game project for running at fixed intervals regardless of the game's main drawing loop. My current implementation is using `Syste...

12 May at 04:24

How to listen to an event in a separate class

I am new to C# and I have a question about event handlers and how to listen to one from another class. See the pseodo code below. I created two classes. I have one class that has an event, and one tha...

12 May at 04:25

GameObjects fall downwards in Unity when they should MoveTowards spaceship

I'm making my first C# game/program with Unity. Basically, the meteoroids should move towards the spaceship but they lose velocity and start falling downwards. The code below worked before I added the...

12 May at 04:26

ASP.NET and IIS gzip size comparison

We have just managed to get GZIP working in IIS by adding the type application/grpc-web Inside of the httpCompression part of IIS. This correctly sets the Content-Encoding to gzip and we see a smaller...

12 May at 04:26

How to open the File Explorer at the push of a button in a C# Windows Forms App?

I'm making a To-Do List using Windows Forms, and currently I'm working with MS Access. And I need help on how to open and Access file in the file explorer upon the push of a button. Here is my code: U...

12 May at 04:28