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Building a framework - Part II (Utilities)

by V.

Second article on creating a reusable framework

IniReader: A Simple, Tiny INI Reader

by honey the codewitch

An INI reader that is easy to use, easy to port, relatively efficient, and to the point

.NET App Settings Demystified (C# & VB)

by Graeme_Grant

Enabling development and production AppSettings support for non-ASP.NET Core apps

Exception: Configuration System Failed to Initialize [With Solution]

by Amogh Natu

This tip provides one solution to the exception "Configuration system failed to initialize" in C#

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Implementing a Custom IConfiguration Provider with MS SQL Server in C#

by GabrieleTronchin

ASP.NET API with a Custom SQL Configuration Provider

Fededim.Extensions.Configurati...

by Federico Di Marco

Fededim.Extensions.Configuration.Protected is an improved ConfigurationBuilder which allows partial or full encryption of configuration values stored inside any possible ConfigurationSource and fully integrated in the ASP.NET Core architecture using Data Protection API.

Connect a Dell Bluetooth keyboard with both Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22

by Minh Danh Nguyen (ToughDev)

Dual-system Bluetooth keyboard setup: Seamless pairing with Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22

Developing Vintage 68K Macintosh Apps with CodeLite IDE, Retro68 and pce-macplus Emulator

by Minh Danh Nguyen (ToughDev)

Developing vintage 68K Macintosh apps with CodeLite IDE, Retro68 and pce-macplus emulator

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Building a framework - Part II (Utilities)

1 Apr 2014 by V.

Second article on creating a reusable framework

IniReader: A Simple, Tiny INI Reader

13 Dec 2021 by honey the codewitch

An INI reader that is easy to use, easy to port, relatively efficient, and to the point

.NET App Settings Demystified (C# & VB)

25 Feb 2023 by Graeme_Grant

Enabling development and production AppSettings support for non-ASP.NET Core apps

Exception: Configuration System Failed to Initialize [With Solution]

1 Mar 2014 by Amogh Natu

This tip provides one solution to the exception "Configuration system failed to initialize" in C#

How to Place Mozilla Firefox Browser under Lockdown

29 Mar 2023 by V. Subhash

Use policies.json file to force Firefox to respect your preferences.

Automatic Network Configuration of ESP8266 IoT Devices

5 Nov 2020 by honey the codewitch

A walkthrough and source code for automatically configuring your ESP8266 IoT devices

log4net for Multiple Build Configurations

18 Jul 2014 by Ryszard Dżegan

How to prepare log4net or other custom, XML-based configuration file for particular build or environment

Application Configuration in ASP.NET 5 MVC 6 vNext

28 Feb 2016 by Troy W. Locke

Setting up and using the new configuration system in ASP.NET 5 vNext

EntityFramework Configuration Provider for .NET Framework & .NET Core

24 Oct 2016 by PatrickJNolan

Configuration.EntityFramework is a custom configuration provider for the .NET Core Configuration system built on EntityFrameworkCore.

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Fededim.Extensions.Configuration.Protected: The Ultimate Integration between ASP.NET Configuration and Data Protection API

7 Feb 2024 by Federico Di Marco

Fededim.Extensions.Configuration.Protected is an improved ConfigurationBuilder which allows partial or full encryption of configuration values stored inside any possible ConfigurationSource and fully integrated in the ASP.NET Core architecture using Data Protection API.

Implementing a Custom IConfiguration Provider with MS SQL Server in C#

29 Mar 2024 by GabrieleTronchin

ASP.NET API with a Custom SQL Configuration Provider

Intro to Qonfig - A simple config framework for C#

8 Nov 2013 by Benjamin Kniffler

A simple and extensible configuration framework for .net4

Custom Configuration Class

18 May 2014 by Syed M Hussain

This article presents a simple CSS like configuration class.

Check whether Windows is configured to use a time server

6 Oct 2014 by Zoltán Zörgő

Assuming you want to check the built-in service status from code, you can call[^] w32tm (the service behind is W32Time) and parse the result. Please note, that some operations require elevated privileges.Third party NTP/SNTP clients might have their own API.So finally, if you only need...

Updating Typescript in VS2015/ASP.NET MVC

5 Sep 2017 by Jon McKee

A how-to and fixing common errors

LoginStatus Control

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

LoginStatus control is used to display Login /Logout links based on the login status of the current user.If the user logged in it displays Logout ,if

How to Setup NGINX to Serve Several Services through One Port: nginx.conf

22 Apr 2021 by Nick Veld

Jupyter + HDFS + YARN + Spark and only one open port using NGINX

How is the access speed of registry values compared to configmanagers user.config?

21 Jan 2022 by Dave Kreskowiak

A major problem with the Registry is portability. The Registry is specific to Windows only. That means you cannot use it if you port your code over to other platforms, like phones. If all you're doing is storing a small list of settings, speed...

Encrypt connectionStrings section of web.config

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

Web.Config

ConfigurationTransformations Nuget

24 Apr 2015 by Vasil Trifonov

ConfigurationTransformations Nuget

Not able to define key value in appsetting.config

13 Jul 2016 by Suvendu Shekhar Giri

You need to encode the URL prior to redirect.The error is showing because it considers the "&" as query string separator and thus treats "file" as another query string variable.The UTF-8 equivalent of "&" is "%26" and that of "=" is "%3D".Check following tutorial for detailed...

Customerrors="on" using status code 302 instead 404 code in network tab in browser

28 Jan 2020 by Richard Deeming

By default, ASP.NET will issue a 302 redirect to the error handler. You can change that by setting the redirectMode to ResponseRewrite:

How to Create Regional Web ACL (WAFv2) with CloudFormation

21 Feb 2022 by Illya Reznykov

Creating Regional Web ACL with CloudFormation

Installing Microsoft Web Deploy on Windows 7

7 May 2023 by ToughDev

How to install Microsoft Web Deploy on Win7

Connect a Dell Bluetooth keyboard with both Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22

23 Jan 2024 by Minh Danh Nguyen (ToughDev)

Dual-system Bluetooth keyboard setup: Seamless pairing with Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

So many aspects of ASP.NET are configurable it can be overwhelming. Things really get interesting when you start adding configuration options for

Creating Custom Configuration Sections in .NET

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

Every element in the configuration file maps to a class in the .NET framework. It's possible to expand upon this to create custom configuration

How to edit Configuration file Web.Config

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

How to edit Configuration file Web.Configin web.config we use section to add keys as you see

hosting https wep application

18 Nov 2013 by sathish4303

I had developed web application in asp.net and i want to host my application as "https://". Help me...Thanks in advance...!

hosting https wep application

18 Nov 2013 by ZurdoDev

You just need to get an SSL Certificate and then configure IIS to use it. There are many samples online. If this is public facing you'll want to buy one or if it is internal only you can use Windows Server to generate a private one for you.

hosting https wep application

3 Dec 2013 by HostForLIFE.eu - Europe ASP.NET Hosting

Hi Sathish,To use https, you need to purchase SSL and also static IP. Then, you can configure it via IIS.

Check whether Windows is configured to use a time server

6 Oct 2014 by Eduard Keilholz

Hey guys,I want to know it there's a way to check whether Windows is configured to synchronize with a time server or not.I've tried to check a timeserver and match the current machine time, but this doesn't do the trick, so just receiving the time server setting from windows would be...

rewrite rule in web.config asp.net

21 Dec 2015 by Member 10711621

I am implementing outbound rule rewriting for image but its not working. any one can tell me what is problem to execute this.Web.Config

Entity Framework fails to find Initializer Class defined in configuration file

3 Jan 2016 by Marco Bertschi

I have an application where I'm tinkering with Code First Entity Framework.So far I do have my Data Context (called ServerContext) up and working nicely. I tried to use an initalizer (ServerContextInitalization) which looks like this:using Dl.ProgramCenter.Common.Dataobjects;using...

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How to load 32 or 64 bit dlls dynamically based on configuration setting in configuration manager - Visual Studio

31 Jan 2016 by Da-broken-Breakpoint

Brief description: We have a few C++ dlls which are targeting 32 bit and 64 bit platforms separately. I want to build my project with the corresponding target platform with the appropriate DLLs being fetched from different source folders. I will make a setup package based on this. I would like...

Question on WCF and basic authentication...

29 Mar 2016 by Sander Rossel

Hi all,So here's the deal, I'm trying to set up a WCF service which needs support for SOAP 1.2 and Basic Authentication (username + password, which must be validated against a custom database). The service will be consumed by a third party over the internet.I'm using Visual Studio 2015 with...

Question on WCF and basic authentication...

29 Mar 2016 by Sander Rossel

Alright, so I found my biggest problem. It's rather stupid.I was missing the services configuration... I remember that used to be generated in earlier versions of WCF.Anyway, with that in place I was able to fix it.Having Basic Authentication without HTTPS is impossible,...

Error: module not specified. Intellij IDEA ultimate

17 Jul 2017 by wardakhan

I was trying to execute a simple program in IntelliJ IDEA as a static web project. I'm a newbie and I'm learning web development with Node.js. I took help from the official website of IntelliJ IDEA, but the error was same. Though, I configured the settings and Project structure...

Not able to define key value in appsetting.config

13 Jul 2016 by madhav_jain

Use "amp;" after &

How to edit initial catalog of connection string in app.config at runtime in fsharp?

5 Aug 2016 by GauravSatpute

Below is my Sample Connection string:Inside which i want to update Initial Catalog=; to Initial Catalog=SomeDBName; all this during...

Update mysql session variable according to different user accounts

12 Sep 2016 by Arun-23

How to change MySQL session variable (i.e, SQL_mode, max_allowed_packet etc) for different user accounts. i have two users sam@localhost and joe@localhost i need to set different MySQL session variable values for both the users (OR) Is there any way to auto call a procedure or sql once the user...

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Help writing function to enter a boolean and integer or string value on one line inside INI file

12 Sep 2016 by dataentry1

So basically my dll file is reading a configuration.ini file and i'm attempting to write a function to allow me to place a bool & Integer/atoi on the same lines along with two different str char type/atoi on same lines.for example// virtual key value, virtual key value2title here =...

Help writing function to enter a boolean and integer or string value on one line inside INI file

12 Sep 2016 by CPallini

In my opinion, using INI files such a way is cumbersome. Probably you need a file format more suitable for holding hierarchical structured data. You might have a look at Serialization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^].

Help writing function to enter a boolean and integer or string value on one line inside INI file

12 Sep 2016 by Jochen Arndt

You must write a parser that splits each line into it's elements:The title, the assignment character, and a comma separated list of values.You can for example use strchr or string::find to locate the assignment character and get the title and the parameters.Then extract multiple...

How do I do version control using visual studio 2015

16 Mar 2017 by Dave the Golfer

I have created a project in VB.net using Visual Studio 2015. It all works well but needs to be improved to help users who are not computer literate and usually over 65 years old.I now need to modify the program. I want to implement some sort of configuration control and go to version control...

How do I do version control using visual studio 2015

16 Mar 2017 by AnvilRanger

Here is a good link to get you started working with Team Services.Set up Team Services, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio Team Services, or TFS[^]Here is a quick vid that might help you get started adding an existing solution to TFS.How to add a existing solution to TFS - YouTube[^]

File parser getting an error

22 Mar 2017 by bling

Here are three choices for you:Easiest fix is to get rid of the Conversion class and write specialized versions of getValueOfKey.Alternative 2: make Conversion a template class (instead of a class with template members).template class Conversion {Alternative 3: make...

Cannot create an instance of OLE DB provider 'oraoledb.oracle' error when creating linked servers from SQL server to oracle

16 May 2017 by Adam_adam

When I attempt to create a linked server to the oracle database from SQL Server Management Studio, I get the error: cannot create an instance of ole db provider "oraoledb.oracle" for linked server error 7303 What I have tried: EXEC master.dbo.sp_addlinkedserver @server =...

Cannot create an instance of OLE DB provider 'oraoledb.oracle' error when creating linked servers from SQL server to oracle

16 May 2017 by Maciej Los

Check this: sql server - "Cannot create an instance of OLE DB provider" error as Windows Authentication user - Stack Overflow[^]. It might be helpful to you.

Error: module not specified. Intellij IDEA ultimate

17 Jul 2017 by jdferrell

The error you are receiving here means when you are trying to run the class, IntelliJ is not able to find it. To fix this, you need to add a .jar file to the classpath: java org.somepackage.SomeClass -cp myJarWithSomeClass.jar or if running on the command line you must add the dot operator:...

How does a program generate a ini file after you exit the program in C#

4 Apr 2018 by Member 13755707

Can somebody give me a code example in c# on how that I make my program generate a ini file after I exit it. What I have tried: I have tried nothing so far need some advice!

How does a program generate a ini file after you exit the program in C#

4 Apr 2018 by Mehdi Gholam

You create the ini (configuration file) while you are running, after you exit there is no code to run... See these : A Simple and Efficient INI File Reader in C#[^] GitHub - rickyah/ini-parser: Read/Write an INI file the easy way![^]

How does a program generate a ini file after you exit the program in C#

4 Apr 2018 by Patrice T

Quote: how that I make my program generate a ini file after I exit it. Short answer: you don't. Programs never do something after exit. Generally speaking, for any interactive program, the program is "do something" on event or user choice. In your case, rather than just "exit" on request, the...

One-to-one mapping in hibernate

29 Sep 2018 by @k5hu

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C++ library with .NET core vscode on ubuntu 19.04 x86_64?

8 Aug 2019 by Audiory Researcho

How can I create a minimal Visual Studio Code 2.2 workspace with: 1. C++ library project (if possible *.so - shared library, if not *.a to use with C#) 2. (If required) something instead of C++/CLI wrapper project(it is linux os no MS C++/CLI) may be wrapper on C# side? 3. C# Application...

C++ library with .NET core vscode on ubuntu 19.04 x86_64?

8 Aug 2019 by Richard MacCutchan

See Platform Invoke (P/Invoke) | Microsoft Docs[^]

How to configure development, QA , test environment in VS 2019

8 Oct 2019 by Member 14615490

Hi, I have created Solution Configurations as Development, QA and test using Configuration Manager. I need to connect to respective databases now like if Solution Configuration is Development then connect to Development Database, if QA then connect to QA database and if Test the connect to Test...

How to configure development, QA , test environment in VS 2019

8 Oct 2019 by #realJSOP

Connecting to databases is handled in code, not the configuration manager. You need to write code to dynamically determine the environment it's running in, and create the appropriate connection string(s) at run time. There are several ways to identify (or specify) the environment, so I'll leave...

Customerrors="on" using status code 302 instead 404 code in network tab in browser

28 Jan 2020 by kingsa

Hi , I tried to redirect error pages to custom pages ,but in network tab in browser its showing as 302 instead 404 can please suggest how can i overcome this issue What I have tried:

Customerrors="on" using status code 302 instead 404 code in network tab in browser

28 Jan 2020 by Richard MacCutchan

See HTTP/1.1: Status Code Definitions[^]

How can I reach local file instead of controller url having app deployed on apache2?

11 Jun 2020 by Member 14631177

My web app is running after being deployed on Apache2 (local OS is Ubuntu 18.04 LTS). There is a plethora of controller-related urls like localhost://get_id/ or localhost://delete/. Whenever I enter them into search mask, page of my we...

How can I reach local file instead of controller url having app deployed on apache2?

11 Jun 2020 by Garth J Lancaster

This may help Mapping URLs to Filesystem Locations - Apache HTTP Server Version 2.5[^] What you have to realise is there must be 'protection' between the 'Web Layer' and the Local file system - imagine if on a Windows system a user could cause...

Alter appsettings.json with SQL instance name at setup (wix)

17 Aug 2020 by HHGM

Hi, I am building this application that relies on SQL Server. I have created the setup project for the application itself, and creating a bootstrap setup to install sql server is missing. Now I need to figure out what the instance name is to...

Create a custom tag for the endpoint and recover it by using configurationmanager

23 Nov 2020 by Richard Deeming

customEndpointSegment does not appear to be a standard configuration element - the only match in Google is this question. You have presumably written your own configuration section to handle this element. You will need to use that section to...

How to reference azure configuration application setting from a node application using javascript

6 Jul 2021 by TimMackey

I have a node.js application deployed on Azure as "myClient" App Service, and several configuration files which contain values specific to their runtime environment: - appconfig.json for debugging on localhost (not applicable to Azure). -...

How do I make solution-wide parameters visible across multiple projects

24 Jul 2021 by TomFuller

I have a solution with an executable project and several DLL projects. There are system-wide parameters (file names, locations, numeric constants) that should be visible to everyone. (I expect to maintain them in an XML file with XmlTextFile.) ...

How do I make solution-wide parameters visible across multiple projects

24 Jul 2021 by OriginalGriff

One simple solution is to create a Locale project and have everything that needs to access it reference that. Make it a static class and off you go.

C++ with gradle and kotlin-dsl; usages of buildtypes & flavors

27 May 2022 by Phoenix Liveon

How do we implement some buildTypes and flavors configs for our project(library or an application). I had a hard time finding tutorials or references about it, especially if it is implemented in kotlin-dsl. I tried to simulate the concepts from...

How is the access speed of registry values compared to configmanagers user.config?

21 Jan 2022 by Sascha Manns

I already googled it, but currently have not found an answer. I'm thinking about storing application settings. So I can use the .NET ConfigurationManager to use a user.config in %AppData%. One possible way is to store the information in a...

Using the gradle build tool to create multi-root projects in vscode

13 Apr 2022 by Phoenix Liveon

It seem there's a bug or maybe the local vscode application in my computer got corrupted? But the multi-module projects or subprojects features are working properly and I already configure the "gradle.nestedProjects" to TRUE, nonetheless I want...

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How to create Regional Web ACL (WAFv2) with PowerShell

24 Sep 2022 by Illya Reznykov

The post describes PowerShell script which creates WAF resources for the scenario when Application Load Balancer is used to serve content for a public website, but to block requests from attackers and to protect from OWASP Top 10 security risks.

Fixing PDF Export Issues when Using a Scriptcase Grid Application

7 May 2023 by ToughDev

How to fix PDF Export Issues while using a Scriptcase Grid app

Deploy and Manage PostgreSQL on Kubernetes

31 Mar 2021 by Arctype SQL

Easily deploy PostgreSQL pod in Kubernetes

Cancel blue iris alert on recognized license plates

5 Nov 2023 by Richard Bryant 2022

I am using the License Plate module for CodeProjectAI and also using the "Plate Recognizer for ALPR" integration. In my alerts, I am getting the plates, example, "TAG1234; car:99%". I'm trying to figure out how I can cancel the alert on my...

Cancel blue iris alert on recognized license plates

29 Oct 2023 by Richard MacCutchan

Please post your question in the CodeProject.AI Discussions[^] forum.

How do I get tailwind CSS custom classes to work in wordpress?

5 Oct 2022 by Darzee The Great

So I'm building a template for a page(template-clock.php), but the original out-of-the-box classes of tailwind CSS just work fine but my custom ones are in the tailwind.config file: //THIS IS THE tailwind.config file code: /** @type...

Cfg-NET

9 Feb 2017 by dale.newman

An alternative to .NET Configuration Handler

appSettings Gone Wild

18 Jan 2017 by DotNetSteve

Manage an overgrown appSettings section

ConfigurationParser for .NET

28 Mar 2017 by DotNetCraft

This article describes one of the easiest ways to read configurations from the App.config.

Application Design - A Bad Day With Adapter Pattern and Log4Net

6 May 2017 by Habibur Rony

This topic will cover the concept of the adapter pattern & how to implement logger using log4net. It will also cover what’s adapter pattern, why need, where & when to use; what’s Log4Net, implementation of logger using adapter pattern, how to implement and add custom SMTP appender & configuration.

Small Helper Tool for Configuration Transformations

21 Apr 2015 by Vasil Trifonov

Small Helper Tool for Configuration Transformations

Configuring IIS

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

"IIS7 includes a comprehensive set of administration tools, including a brand new administration GUI, a new command line tool, and new managed code

Developing Vintage 68K Macintosh Apps with CodeLite IDE, Retro68 and pce-macplus Emulator

7 May 2023 by Minh Danh Nguyen (ToughDev)

Developing vintage 68K Macintosh apps with CodeLite IDE, Retro68 and pce-macplus emulator

.NET Configuration File Corrupts On Write

9 Nov 2021 by Member 12660776

Programmatically Adding New ConfigurationSectionGroup Corrupts Declaration Section With Multiple Group Declarations.

Simple Use Case for Leveraging Visual Studio Solution Configurations

11 May 2016 by PilotProgrammer

Automatically switch between client solution's Test or Prod app.config file, for injecting environment settings into class library solution

Importance of Logging in MySQL

16 Dec 2017 by Biswal Tanmaya

This blog post discusses the importance of logging in MySQL

Read/Write Configuration Files in XML/INI

31 Jan 2014 by VBTheory

Save and load configuration files in both XML and INI with ease

Not able to define key value in appsetting.config

13 Jul 2016 by madhav_jain

Use "amp;" after & in value url

C++ with gradle and kotlin-dsl; usages of buildtypes & flavors

27 May 2022 by Rick York

I am not entirely clear on what you are asking but I'll take a shot. First, there are two kinds of libraries you can build - statically linked and dynamically lined. You define which kind(s) in the project settings of the library's solution. ...

SQLite configuration for C# application targeting any CPU - Part 1

30 Apr 2016 by Southmountain

A discussion on how to configure folder structures for C# application with SQLite databases and ADO.NET assemblies with targeting to any CPU, no matter 32-bit or 64-bit. Part 1 is theoretic consideration for project folder structures. Part 2 will give a demo to approve this concept.

Transferring Large Data With WCF

23 Nov 2014 by Suniil Kumar Pal

Configuration settings need to be made to transfer large data with WCF

Simple ConfigurationManager for .NET

15 Oct 2015 by tymanski

A configuration management component for small and middle-sized projects

Not able to define key value in appsetting.config

13 Jul 2016 by Jiten Madan

Getting error while adding values to key.Entity "File" not definedEntity "Action" not definedHow can i treat this two word as string and add it to value.ThanksWhat I...

Running Apache Kafka on Windows without Cygwin

10 Jan 2016 by GopalTiwari

It will give information about Installing and Configuring Apache Kafka & Zookeeper for Windows Operating System

Reading Entries from Application Settings and Connection Strings in Azure Function using C# .NET Core 3.1, 5, 6

16 Dec 2021 by Sauradipta Chaudhury

This is a coding solution to use Application Settings and Connection Strings sections under Configuration Menu in Azure Functions V2.x and above to store configurable entries.

File parser getting an error

22 Mar 2017 by FarhanShariff

I am try in to create a parser with to read configuration fileserror explicit specialisation in non namespace 'class Conversion'What I have tried:#include #include #include #include //holding the pair of parameter-value#include...

linker crash in C++/QTwhile access DLL file

1 Nov 2015 by Ramiien

Hi, I am trying to access my API functions from DLL file. but getting this error"The program has unexpectedly finished."C:\MyDevelopment\build-PcanPortLinker-Desktop_Qt_5_5_0_MinGW_32bit-Debug\debug\PcanPortLinker.exe crashedMy DLL file config is as following.LIBS +=...

linker crash in C++/QTwhile access DLL file

8 Nov 2015 by griffwk

To really see what's going on, you need to run your program under the debugger, and when the exception occurs, trap it, and post the debugger info here.i.e. Exception type, stack trace, source code on which the error occurs, etc.then, we might be able to pinpoint your problemgwk

Issue while publishing site on local IIS server.

23 Nov 2015 by Devendra lodha

Hi All,Hope you are well.I am trying to publish a web application on my local IIS but I am getting following error.HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server ErrorThe requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.See image for error...

Create a custom tag for the endpoint and recover it by using configurationmanager

23 Nov 2020 by xhon

I created a Rest web API and now I want to call the operations exposed by the API from a Proxy. My environment is Visual Studio, C#. As the operations that I exposed in the API share a part of the URL/endpoint ("api/NameOfTheController"), I...