The Old man and the c#

 It's been a while with no postings. The company I worked for got acquired and and the focus of our work went more towards cloud based implementations. Over the years I have been working with technologies which were just not on our radar as a small consulting company. Learned a lot and am grateful for the experiences I got. Many of our clients where geared towards large scale implementation with many Azure services used to distribute loads and acquire data as well as use of Kubernetes to deploy solutions in containerized applications. In addition to the use of C# in projects, many open source frameworks and technologies have taken hold in large scale implementations as well. React, Angular and Vue is the choice of many companies in this space. Going forward there are discussions in using AI in development as well as providing AI as solutions to customers. Personally I have experienced some vibe coding and had good results in front end implementations for Angular and React. Coming d...

 So it's been awhile. Still working with Polaris Solution working from home like most of us lately. Today I released a small project using CodeProject's Import GitHub project. Those guys at CodeProject have done a great job to connect to and reduce the friction between themselves, In the past I would write an article on CodeProject, upload images and insert codesnippets. Now all this can be done with the Readme.md file in GitHub. Additionally, the latest files are always kept in sync with GitHib and the files no longer need to be uploaded separately.  The project allows you to visualize more easily the dependencies between database objects. See how a stored procedure connects to a table, view etc. See the table definition as well as procedures, triggers and views.  Here is the link on CodeProject : and on GitHub :

A Starting point Recently my customer made the business decision to streamline their contracting process. Currently a sales agent will create a set of documents which will be downloaded, printed and signed off by the prospect. Once the prospect signs the contract, it is faxed back and countersigned. After countersigning, the document would be scanned and saved for reference. After much due diligence, my customer decided to go with a solution provided by DocuSign. It provides the ability to send documents to recipients for their viewing and / or approval. Background I was tasked with incorporating this solution using a set of APIs provided by DocuSign. The API calls are provided as both SOAP and Rest implementations and feature an extensive array of documentation and tools to help with implementation. I made the decision to go forward with the Rest implementation because of the ease of implementation and configuration. DocuSign provides an API Explorer allowing you the oppor...

UPDATE - 9/26/2017 the following announcement was on the Sena Forum: A new version of the Cycle Gear Bluetooth Device Manager has been uploaded to the website. This will allow you to update the firmware for the DWO-5. I have confirmed that the software installs correctly AND that is includes the FTD2XX.DLL which was missing from their last version. In addition to programming as a profession, I really like to ride motorcycles. Recently I bought myself a really nice Bilt Techno 2.0 modular helmet from CycleGear. They have two local shops in the Chicago area and really do a nice job helping you to select the appropriate gear. This helmet includes a Bluetooth radio DWO-5 supplied by Sena. Out of the box everything worked well. Being the tech type of guy I am, I wanted to try the "Device Manager" software which updates the firmware and allows you to set the speed dial numbers. This is my experience getting this to actually work and the poor support I got from Sena's te...

Extensions and Reflections and Generics oh my! Copyright - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcwriterdawn/ Creating an extension class for View Models to save public properties using Generics and Delegates, replacing a reflection implementation. Introduction Recently I was working on an MVC project in which the client wanted to persist a form used to filter data to a data store so that the form could be recalled with any number of saved states. I chose to persist the data in a dictionary object which could be persisted in a Entity Attribute Value table.  I created two extension methods, one which saves model properties to a Dictionary and the other which applies data from a Dictionary and overwrites properties of the model.  The extension method for Getting the properties is called  GetModelValues  and the other method is  ValuesToModel . Both extensions are defined as a type of T where T is defined as an Interface. This is to ensure t...

appSettings Gone Wild Today I added a tip/trick to code project  describing a technique used recently at one of our clients. The technique involves add a new configuration section to the config file without having to go through the pain of creating your own class inherited from  System.Configuration. ConfigurationSection. By using the  System.Configuration. NameValueSectionHandler  we added new sections to the configuration file which allowed us the same technique of using key value pairs though scoped to the newly defined section. Here's a Link: https://www.codeproject.com/Tips/1166338/appSettings-Gone-Wild