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Posts by Alexei
The way I made this work is not very quick but might provide extra benefit in the future. I have added Hangfire support to the application and use its BackgroundJob enqueuing mechanism as follows: ...
One of the legacy applications our team manages contained the following pattern (in the controller): // initialization private readonly IServiceScopeFactory _serviceScopeFactory; public FooCon...
These can be achieved in several ways, but there might be some drawbacks: through JSON serialization/deserialization: const cloned = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(array)); The advantage is that ...
I have an array that I need to clone in Angular / Typescript. That is, any change done on an element from the cloned array should not affect the content of the initial array. How can I achieve thi...
This is based on a code review discussion that I had with a colleague about the way I have designed the resources paths for an ASP.NET Core controller that is currently consumed only internally (by...
I have an ASP.NET Core 5 web application that provides functionality that involves file upload + rather large processing (memory consumption mainly). After each processing (with success or not) the...
Server-side solution If you can customize the server-side search functionality, you could add some logging information there. The advantages in this case are: store the data in a useful format ...
Note: some of these points are relevant for all communities, but I would like to focus on Software Development for now I am thinking of promoting Software Codidact, but I could not find a single p...
I have recently blown off the dust off my LinkedIn profile and I have realized that I have hundreds of connections. An important fraction of all these connections are into software development and ...
I am wondering if it makes sense to define a template for questions. This would act as a guideline rather than a strict template to be followed. I have seen this being used for GitHub issues and I...
Our team is currently transferring all functionality (+ some changes) from small and very old project A (almost code freeze) to project B (actively developed). As part of the data migration, there ...
One of the recent business requirements is to be able to search through a list of entities using a bunch of filters. Most of these filters allow multiple values and the user might theoretically pro...
Issue I have recently discussed with a friend a performance issue he and his colleagues have encountered in an ASP.NET Core 5 application (a checkout app, microservices architecture). The problem...
I would have a separation between what is on-topic / offtopic and what is worth upvoting or downvoting. Thus for the specific case of questions showing no research, but are on-topic, I would consi...
There are multiple reasons why using images of code, errors, logs and other text resources used in programming instead of the actual text is strongly discouraged. Shortly put, the question should ...
I have noticed that virtually any question containing an image of some code or error got a comment asking to replace it with the actual code, error text. Why is it so bad to include an image inste...
Besides the aforementioned solutions, Web components might be useful (can be reused in multiple contexts). Examples: in Drupal in ButterCMS in Backdrop CMS in WordPress However, if your fo...
As Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow mostly) is struggling to deal with outdated answers, they came with a proposal that we can learn from: Version labels for answers As already most of the feedback...
The context A reports related process is directly reading the production operational database once about two hours. This involves reading all the data from some 70 tables which takes a couple minu...
Despite the fact that I have programmed against SQL Server for quite a while I did not pay much attention to the tempdb database. This is especially true if application logic is mostly written usin...
I have recently stumbled across the Maybe (or Optional) modal usage in .NET Code: example code or this one example article Based on everything I read, there are multiple advantages on relyi...
For me the following reasons might lead to downvoting: Posts that are not related to a specific programming issue, but are rather meant to start a discussion. Example Asking for software ...
Currently, there is no consensus about whether to provide tooltips for the voting buttons (especially the downvote one). However, the community now includes quite a lot of questions that attracted ...
A recent flag for this question suggested that it would be a better fit for the Linux community. There is no motivation provided, but I guess it is related to the fact that most of the question and...
I think what you are looking for is Array.GetLength which: gets a 32-bit integer that represents the number of elements in the specified dimension of the Array.
