Ninjacrab

Category: Random Coding

  • EntityFramework – Migrations Gotchas

    Wanting to be a little more thrifty on a side project, I decided to roll with MySQL and EntityFramework. There were a few gotchas, outside of the normal tutorial and I’m just putting this out here to save time for anyone else who may have had to deal with the issues I ran across. Data…

  • XamarinForms – Overriding a ContentPage with a custom PageRenderer on Android

    The short version: If you want to have default behavior on all platforms except for Android. Do the following Create your content page with all of it’s goodies Create a custom PageRenderer In the OnElementChanged function Cast the Context property of the renderer to the Activity type associated Take that value and execute the SetContentView method while passing…

  • ** Update ** EntityFramework detecting complex type with database first

    Originally, I posted a question on StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21630431/entityframework-detecting-complex-type-with-database-first While we’re still not using complex types, we’ve worked out a mechanism to preventing our developers from breaking the autogenerated models when re-generating from the DB. We’ve altered the T4 template generated by EF. First we’ve created a method in the CodeStringGenerator class public string BaseClassAndInterfaces(EntityType entity)…

  • Gitmongous Distributed Repositories

    So it’s been a little while as I’ve been busy assisting my beautiful wife on some projects she’s had, I’ve been at the tail end of a working marathon and finally I was on vacation last week. However, I’ve got a bit of free time now and I wanted to share an interesting downside of distributed…

  • 100 YouTube Subscribers!

    Yay! So I’ve reach a small milestone of 100 YouTube subscribers! Besides the one or two friends that I have, most of them have discovered me either via the TopCoding video 1 or the RandomCoding Visual Studio snippets video. After creating another 4 TopCoding videos, neither seemed to have the reigning success of the first video.…

  • Facebook Unity – Keystore missing

    So I just recently noticed that the Facebook team wrote a unity plugin to make your games easily integrate with Facebook! I’m super excited to get Conflicademia connected so off I went. Apparently, a while ago, I attempted this before and found an old Facebook assembly that I couldn’t get working. It also conflicted with…

  • It’s soooooo obvious!

    While using the Newtonsoft Json.Net library I received the error “Explicitly define an Id for the type using a JsonObject/JsonArray attribute or automatically generate a type Id using the UndefinedSchemaIdHandling property.” When attempting to generate a schema for some types that were created that have circular references. My types were created in EntityFramework database first…

  • Javascript is Evil – Curly brace indentation

    So I’m building a little DurandalJS SPA (single page app) test site tonight and while building the view model I do what I’ve typically done in the past when I run into Java curly brace convention, which is to plop that sucker down to the next line a la default VS C# convention. Little did…

  • Wix Windows Service – Start on install

    So I was building a wix setup project for a windows service and kept running into a wall while getting the service to start after a successful install. It kept giving me an error “Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services”. I searched through nearly 50 articles that led me on a…

  • Random Coding 3 didn’t happen… yet!

    Well, I was diligently playing with Nuget packaging and hoping to make a video where I create a Nuget package that hosts the VSIX that I created in random coding two. However, it seems as though Nuget doesn’t support installing a VSIX, item templates or project templates. I then sat back and thought “Unpossibleh!!!” I’m…