Author: jcianci12
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Finding the process id (PID) when using Internet Information Services (IIS)
In IIS (Internet Information Services), PID (Process ID) is a unique identifier for the process running the application pool. Here’s how you can find the PID in IIS: Note that the PID may change if the worker process is recycled or restarted. So, it’s recommended to monitor the PID periodically if you need to keep…
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File Audit with Entity Framework: Retrieve and Check Missing Files with Closest Modification Date
The FileAudit method is a useful way to retrieve file names from a database table and check if these files exist in a specified directory. With supporting methods like GetParent and GetClosestFile, it provides information about the missing files and the closest file based on the modification date. This article delves into the details of…
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XPath Cheat Sheet ๐ฎ
Hopefully you find these handy! Handy XPath operators Putting it all together๐ผ Sure, here are a few examples of using XPath with Selenium in C#: Once you have found the element, you can interact with it using various methods such as Click(), SendKeys(), Clear(), GetAttribute(), GetCssValue(), GetText(), and more. For example, to click on an…
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Star Haulers Game Play
Finally getting to a point where its possible to play without any major issues!
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Lenovo y740 brief long term review
This is a great machine, and great as a desktop replacement! Here is a quick test of it running the NVIDIA reflections demo. As you can see it runs nice and smooth ๐ CPU Specs Essentials CPU Specifications GPU Specs
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Adding session timeout to ASP.NET MVC 5
As part of security improvements, we needed to add a session time out in one of our apps. One of the challenges though is that users could be in the middle of submitting their work, go past the timer, then submit, and because their session has expired, they loose their work. Here is how we…
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MVC 5 Dynamic redirect Uri for external OpenId authentication
If you are like me, you dont like having extra configuration in your web transforms. Originally I was setting the redirect uri statically from the web config using However, this means that we need a separate web config when we run locally vs when we run on the server. Also, the redirecturi is static. ๐ข…
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Hosting a Minecraft bedrock server
The server To host your own Minecraft Bedrock server using Docker, you can follow these steps: Tip: I love using vs code for this work, because it has a docker client, to show running clients, it has an integrated terminal, and it has a nice way to edit YAML files. This command creates a Docker…
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Star Haulers… It was going so well ๐ข๐
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Download JSON data dynamically in Angular
Here is a quick code snippet that shows how we can download JSON data. This is useful for saving the application ‘state’ kind of like a save feature ๐ผ I hope this helps you create a component that allows you to save JSON data โ