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I am a professional software engineer and technical architect with over twenty years commercial development experience with a strong focus on the design and development of web and mobile applications.

I have experience of architecting scalable, distributed, high volume web applications that are accessible from multiple devices due to their responsive web design, including architecting enterprise service-oriented solutions. I have also developed enterprise mobile applications using Xamarin and Telerik Platform.

I have extensive experience using .NET, ASP.NET, Windows and Web Services, WCF, SQL Server, LINQ and other Microsoft technologies. I am also familiar with HTML, Bootstrap, Javascript (inc. JQuery and Node.js), CSS, XML, JSON, Apache Cordova, KendoUI and many other web and mobile related technologies.

I am enthusiastic about Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Application Life-cycle Management having configured such environments using CruiseControl.NET, TeamCity and Team Foundation Services. I enjoy working in Agile and Test Driven Development (TDD) environments.

Outside of work I have two beautiful daughters. I am also an avid cyclist who enjoys reading, listening to music and travelling.

 

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GeneralBuilding a Document Manager with ASP.NET Core 2.1 Pin
Dominic Burford19-Aug-18 22:38
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GeneralReducing the surface area of the client Pin
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GeneralUnderstanding what you're doing Pin
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GeneralSetting environments in ASP.NET Core Pin
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GeneralCreating a zipped deployment for an ASP.NET Core web application Pin
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GeneralI’m turning into a Microsoft fanboy Pin
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GeneralAdding a confirmation dialog to an ASP.NET Core 2.0 form page handler Pin
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GeneralUploading a file in ASP.NET Core 2.0 Pin
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As part of the web app I'm currently developing using ASP.NET Core 2.0, I needed to allow the user to upload files to the server. The file upload control I am using is the Kendo UI Upload control, but the underlying process will be similar irrespective of the underlying UI control that you are using.

To achieve this I am using an ASP.NET Core page handler. Within this page handler I have placed the Kendo UI Upload control. The page handler contains the name of the page handler and the HTTP method to use.

The below code is the Razor (.cshtml) syntax (simplified) that demonstrates how I have created the page handler and the Kendo UI Upload control.
<form asp-page-handler="upload" method="post">
  @(Html.Kendo().Upload()
    .Name("files")
  )
  <button>Save</button>
</form>
In the example above it should be noted that the name of the page handler is "upload" and the HTTP method will be a POST. Without going into a full description of ASP.NET Core page handlers, the name of the form page handler and the HTTP method dictate the name of the page handler on the Razor code-behind.

When the user clicks the Save button the files that have been specified for upload will be posted to the ASP.NET Core "upload" page handler.

public void OnPostUpload(IEnumerable<IFormFile> files)
{
  //do something with the file(s) here
}
Note: the name of the Kendo UI Upload control MUST be the same as the name of the parameter received by the page handler i.e. "files" in this example. The files get posted to the page handler when the form is submitted. You can then process the files in any way you want. Note also that the type of parameter is different to previous versions of ASP.NET which used HttpPostedFileBase. With ASP.NET Core the posted files are of type IEnumerable<iformfile>.

ASP.NET Core makes handling file uploads very simple and straight forward. Doing so is even easier using the Kendo UI Upload control which reduced the amount of code I had to write. Files can be uploaded asynchronously and in multiples too.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare

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GeneralASP.NET Core 2.0 Razor Page Handlers Pin
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GeneralMocking the HttpContext Session object in ASP.NET Core 2.0 Pin
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GeneralUsing ViewComponents in ASP.NET Core 2.0 Pin
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GeneralWeb application metrics with Application Insight Part 2 Pin
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GeneralWriting flexible code in ASP.NET Core 2.0 Razor Pages Pin
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GeneralPerforming Code Coverage for .NET Core 2.0 applications Pin
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GeneralRe: Performing Code Coverage for .NET Core 2.0 applications Pin
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GeneralRe: Performing Code Coverage for .NET Core 2.0 applications Pin
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GeneralBuilding ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications Pin
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GeneralObtaining the authentication token returned from Azure AD B2C in ASP.NET Core 2.0 Pin
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GeneralVersioning a .NET Core 2.0 application Pin
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GeneralThe next generation technical stack Pin
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GeneralWriting flexible code Pin
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GeneralA cautionary tale of over-confidence in your own opinions Pin
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GeneralWhat lies ahead in 2018 Pin
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GeneralTemplated HTML emails using RazorEngine Pin
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GeneralSending emails using Azure Sendgrid service Pin
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