Articles by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu (Articles: 18, Technical Blogs: 20, Tip/Tricks: 5)

Articles: 18, Technical Blogs: 20, Tip/Tricks: 5

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	Let’s Talk about MEF – Part 1 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,150 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Let’s talk about MEF – Part 1
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ASP	Securing Ids on Web Applications 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 3.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,250 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to secure Ids on web applications
C#	The Hidden Side-effect of Enums and Values 14 Nov 2018 Updated: 7 Feb 2019 Rating: 3.55/5 Votes: 34 Popularity: 5.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,773 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Recently, I encountered an issue with enums, which I wanted to share in case someone else encounters it along the way.
	IEnumerator and foreach 14 Nov 2018 Updated: 14 Nov 2018 Rating: 1.67/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 0.80 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,990 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. IEnumerator and foreach
	Compression and Decompression Snippets 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 2,301 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A few extension methods to help with compressing either string or just byte arrays (which could be files, images, objects, basically, everything can be represented as a byte array)
	Treating Code as Data: NDepend 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 2,301 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Treating code as data: NDepend
Java	Errors, The Black Sheep of the Family 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.71 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,340 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A look at the so called "black sheep" of the family of development, namely compiler errors and exceptions
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	ClipX Showcast 14 Nov 2018 Updated: 14 Nov 2018 Rating: 3.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 0.90 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,500 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. ClipX showcast
Web Development
ASP.NET	Testing SignalR Hubs in ASP.NET Core 2.1 12 Nov 2018 Updated: 12 Nov 2018 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,242 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to test SignalR Hubs in ASP.NET Core 2.1
	ASP.NET Core 1.1 and Identity Adventures 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,782 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. ASP.NET Core 1.1 and Identity Adventures
	Application Triggers for ASP.NET Core 2.1 Entity Framework Core 12 Nov 2018 Updated: 12 Nov 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,612 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Application triggers for ASP.NET Core 2.1 Entity Framework Core
	Background Worker in ASP.NET Core 12 Nov 2018 Updated: 12 Nov 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,542 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to add functionality to an ASP.NET Core application outside of a request
	Enhancing ASP.NET Core Logging Pipeline with Serilog 12 Nov 2018 Updated: 12 Nov 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,162 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to enhance ASP.NET Core logging pipeline with Serilog
	Branching Authentication in ASP.NET Core 2.1 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,501 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Branching authentication in ASP.NET Core 2.1
	Typed Claims in ASP.NET Core 2.1 3 Feb 2019 Updated: 3 Feb 2019 Rating: 4.73/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.85 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,540 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use claims following a typed approach
	Testing Entity Framework Core 12 Nov 2018 Updated: 12 Nov 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,842 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to write automated tests using entity framework core
	Automation Testing Dogma and Exploration 12 Nov 2018 Updated: 12 Nov 2018 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,800 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Automation testing dogma and exploration
HTML	LINQPad, A Developer’s Best Friend 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.38 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,261 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. LINQPad - a developer’s best friend

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	Your Job, Your Work and You [Technical Blog] 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 2.92/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 2.46 Licence: CPOL Views: 2,900 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post will be a little ditouch on technical careers.
Database Development
Lucene	LiteDb Review [Technical Blog] 23 Jun 2019 Updated: 23 Jun 2019 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,964 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Some LiteDB use cases
Game Development
Unity	Rolling Our Own IoC [Technical Blog] 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 2,460 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What an Inversion of Control (IoC) container is and how it works
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Threads	C# modifiers use and abuse – Part 2 [Technical Blog] 14 Nov 2018 Updated: 14 Nov 2018 Rating: 1.77/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 1.07 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,582 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Hello and welcome to part two of the use and abuse of the C# modifier keywords, Last time we looked at the access modifiers that apply to types (class, struct, and enums) and members (fields, methods, nested classes, etc.
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WordPress	Games as a Service? [Technical Blog] 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 2,890 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Games as a service
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C#	FileSystem Syncher – Part 2 [Technical Blog] 14 Nov 2018 Updated: 14 Nov 2018 Rating: 2.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 2,040 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. FileSystem syncher
	FileSystem Syncher – Part 3 [Technical Blog] 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 22 May 2020 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.03 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,181 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. FileSystem Syncher
	IEnumerable and State Machines [Technical Blog] 14 Nov 2018 Updated: 14 Nov 2018 Rating: 2.78/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 1.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,213 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. IEnumerable and state machines
	Mocking Expressions [Technical Blog] 8 Aug 2020 Updated: 8 Aug 2020 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,342 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Mocking/stubbing lambda expressions to have a bit more control over our unit tests
	The Rise of the Null-Object Pattern in C# 8 [Technical Blog] 20 May 2020 Updated: 21 May 2020 Rating: 3.74/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 3.37 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,132 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Null-object pattern in C# 8
	Dependency Inversion and Dependency Injection [Technical Blog] 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 2,000 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, we will take a deeper look at what Dependency Inversion or Dependency Injection actually means and how it helps us.
	Performance with IDisposable, Outside the Box [Technical Blog] 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 2.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 0.60 Licence: CPOL Views: 1,650 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Performance with IDisposable, outside the box
	C# Modifiers Use and Abuse – Part 1 [Technical Blog] 14 Nov 2018 Updated: 14 Nov 2018 Rating: 2.78/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.33 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,360 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Modifiers in C# - use and abuse
	Mouse automation with AutoItX [Technical Blog] 9 Feb 2020 Updated: 9 Feb 2020 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,000 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Hello and welcome, In this post, we are going to talk about how we can automate part of the windows desktop environment using AutoItX. What is AutoItX? Before we can talk about AutoItX first we need to talk a little bit about AutoIt.
	Creating Zips Server Side Per Request [Technical Blog] 21 Jul 2021 Updated: 21 Jul 2021 Rating: 3.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,900 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Creating a zip archive on demand to be served via an API endpoint
	The C# 9 init-only Setters [Technical Blog] 15 Aug 2021 Updated: 15 Aug 2021 Rating: 3.65/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 2.55 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,490 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A discussion of "init" keyword introduced in C# 9
C# 7.0	Enums, Flags and Binary Literals [Technical Blog] 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 2,261 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. enum value types, how they can be composed as flags and how C# 7 makes it easier for us to use and understand them
Javascript	Download File via Ajax [Technical Blog] 25 Jul 2021 Updated: 25 Jul 2021 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.86 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,157 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to retrieve file from web page that uses JavaScript for its interactions
Lua	Getting Closure on Closures [Technical Blog] 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 3.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 2,180 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Getting closure on Closures
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	FileSystem Syncher – Part 1 [Technical Blog] 14 Nov 2018 Updated: 14 Nov 2018 Rating: 4.25/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.03 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,670 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A basic console application that copies all the files from the source path to destination path, checking if there are files already present at the destination path and doing a simple comparison

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WPF	Generating Breakpoints [Tip/Trick] 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 2,570 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to generate breakpoints
General Programming
Threads	LinqPAD Script of the Day: WorldClock [Tip/Trick] 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 1,711 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. LinqPAD Script of the Day: WorldClock
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C#	Introducing the Clipper [Tip/Trick] 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 2,010 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This will be a short example related to a previous post about Closures.
Visual Studio
	LinqPAD Script of the Day: RandomStringGenerator [Tip/Trick] 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 1,550 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. RandomStringGenerator
Web Development
ASP.NET	SignalR Metadata for ASP.NET Core 2.1 [Tip/Trick] 13 Nov 2018 Updated: 13 Nov 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,860 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Short post which will tie in with the next post about branching authentication in ASP.NET Core using middleware.

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Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

Software Developer

Romania

When asked, I always see myself as a .Net Developer because of my affinity for the Microsoft platform, though I do pride myself by constantly learning new languages, paradigms, methodologies, and topics. I try to learn as much as I can from a wide breadth of topics from automation to mobile platforms, from gaming technologies to application security.

If there is one thing I wish to impart, that that is this "Always respect your craft, your tests and your QA"

Articles by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu (Articles: 18, Technical Blogs: 20, Tip/Tricks: 5)

Articles: 18, Technical Blogs: 20, Tip/Tricks: 5

Average article rating: 4.25

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