LIFTI is an open source full text index library for .NET - you can check it out on GitHub The Visual Studio Go To Symbol feature is smart enough that if you miss out letters it can still match with pretty good accuracy: Now that LIFTI support wildcard matching (and fuzzy matching too!) I thought this would be a good …

If you are using HTTP trigger bindings and are relying on keys to secure them using AuthorizationLevel.Function, you might want a way verify that you haven’t accidentally left one of them exposed as AuthorizationLevel.Anonymous. With a bit of reflection you can accomplish this in a unit test (I’m using the …

If you’ve ever written entries in a .gitignore file, you’ve written a glob. They can be simple, e.g. *.so matching all files with the so file extension, or a more complex, e.g. **/bar/*.cs matching files with the cs extension in folders called bar anywhere in the search path. This is very different to the …

As of Update 3, Visual Studio 2013 now has support for Application Insights built in, so I thought I’d have a play with it again. Right now, my primary focus is adding instrumentation to a Windows 8 Store app I’m working on. I’d tried to do it with the previous Application Insights release (which was in preview), but …

I found that a solution of mine was still referencing the Microsoft.Bcl.Build nuget project, and as I was using Visual Studio 2013, I figured it was no longer needed, so I removed it. After doing this, some of the projects refused to compile, reporting the error: This project references NuGet package(s) that are …

@Colly_Mc_K asked me on twitter (and in my poorly moderated comments feed – sorry, Colly!) if it was possible to use DynaCache with SimpleInjector. Although I’ve used SimpleInjector a bit before, I hadn’t actually tried it with DynaCache. It turns out that the sample code for Ninject translates fairly well - here’s a …

I was playing around with Visual Studio 2013 and Entity Framework 6 in an MVC 5 application recently, and was impressed with the level of support that is provided out of the box for oAuth. If you create a new ASP.NET MVC 5 site with the Individual User Accounts authentication option and follow all the instructions on …

When you construct a PersistedFullTextIndex with a primitive type, such as int, you just need to define it like this: 1var index = new PersistedFullTextIndex<int>(filePath); However if you try to do this with something more complicated, such as a class or even just a Guid, you’ll get an exception like this: …

I’ve had a couple of people ask for concrete examples of using DynaCache with frameworks other than Ninject. The first one that I’ve put together is for Unity. You’ll find the Unity example in the DynaCache documentation here.