Peter Vogel

Sometimes life is like playing Whack-a-Mole: You write some code that solves a problem, and then someone comes along and makes the problem harder. Here’s how to continuously integrate new solutions without having to rewrite your old solutions (much).

That’s often where the real problem is.

SQL Server 2016 lets you treat JSON objects like rows in a table, allowing you to use data from AJAX queries in joins, updates and any other SQL statement you can think of.

With SQL Server 2016, you can store JSON objects in your rows. Here’s how to work with JSON objects, including how to update them once you’ve found them.

NET Tips and Tricks Blog by Peter Vogel

Once you've got a contract that describes a gRPC service, creating the service itself and a client that can call the service is easy. In fact, Visual Studio will do most of the work for you ... once you've got your projects set up correctly, that is.

While security in ASP.NET Core is wholly claims based, you can still use the Authorize attribute to control access to your application. You just need to set up the right policies to work with the claims associated with the current user.

.NET Tips and Tricks Blog Featuring .NET and Visual Studio Tips and Tricks (and Tools!) for Developers by Peter Vogel

Test projects give you a way to exercise your code to see if it works but they’re also part of your project’s ‘permanent record.’ If all you want to do is try something out with some throwaway code, C# Scripting in Visual Studio might be a better choice.

Here’s a way of thinking about your test plans that will help you decide how you can reduce your testing costs.