Friday, September 4, 2015

VS Code: Multiple build tasks with multiple solutions

There are multiple solution files in the same folder in our current solution.
You can find the tasks.json file below to build these solutions separately.
You can run the task by

  1. pressing CTRL+SHIFT+P
  2. selecting Run Task
  3. choosing the appropriate option

Monday, June 15, 2015

MVC6 SecretManager

I tried to install ASP.NET MVC6 Secret Manager package with DNVM  1.0.0-beta4. It failed with:
Unable to locate SecretManager >= 1.0.0-beta4-10173
There is an easy fix: you can remove the last part of the version identifier.

  1. Open project.json file
  2. Change version to 
 "dependencies": {
    "SecretManager": "1.0.0-beta4-*"
  },
Files to be changed:
Package path:%UserProfile%\.dnx\packages\SecretManager\1.0.0-beta4\app\project.json
Cache path:%UserProfile%\.dnx\bin\packages\SecretManager\1.0.0-beta4\app\project.json

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

RouteValueDictionary

I got an error recently when I enable DonutCache donutHole-based caching for a RenderAction:
Type 'System.String[]' with data contract name 'ArrayOfstring:http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays' is not expected. Consider using a DataContractResolver or add any types not known statically to the list of known types - for example, by using the KnownTypeAttribute attribute or by adding them to the list of known types passed to DataContractSerializer.
It seems RouteValueDictionary cannot manage IEnumerable or String[] as a parameter. The solution is simple, it's a well-known issue:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19960420/adding-array-of-complex-types-to-routevaluedictionary

So this is how you can use the extension method:
Html.RenderAction(
                             ActionName,
                             ControllerName,
                             new RouteValueDictionary(new 
                             {      usual properties here }));