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ASP.NET Core Identity Pages and Fake Users - Extending Noter with Code and Data Generation

The other two posts - First Look into ASP.NET Core MVC - Notes Management App and Before and After - Transforming Noter with Bootstrap - introduce the Noter project and implement basic functionality and styling. This post extends Noter to support users. Users can register, log in, and log

Noter

Before and After - Transforming Noter with Bootstrap

Another post introduces Noter - an ASP.NET Core MVC app for managing notes. The app provides basic functionality: viewing, editing, and creating notes, as well as navigating between pages. The problem is its UI elements are unstyled, making the interface visually unappealing. This post applies Bootstrap 5.3 styling

Noter

First Look into ASP.NET Core MVC - Notes Management App

This post showcases Noter - an ASP.NET Core MVC app for managing notes. A note consists of a title and content. This post comes from the perspective of a complete beginner in MVC. As such, certain details may be overlooked, while others explained excessively. Styling (i.e. applying CSS)

Achievement Quantifier

Achievement Quantifier Round 4 - Reporting Summary Statistics and Optimising a Complex LINQ Query

This post improves the usability the Achievement Quantifier project by adding a small feature - reporting - and showcases a complex LINQ query behind it. The reporting command counts the number of completed achievements today, yesterday, and past week: > aq stats ┌────────────────────────────────────┬───────┐ │ Statistic │ Value │ ├────────────────────────────────────┼───────┤ │ Achievements Completed Today │ 6 │ │ Achievements Completed

Achievement Quantifier

Achievement Quantifier Round 3 – Testing Spectre.Console Commands using XUnit, AutoFixture, and an In-Memory SQLite Database

This post shares an experience of unit testing in C# using XUnit, AutoFixture, and Spectre.Console.Testing libraries plus an in-memory SQLite database. The motivation for this post is to prepare a testing project setup for future reference. The example project is Achievement Quantifier, first introduced in this post and

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Achievement Quantifier Round 2 - Experimenting with EF-Core Scaffolding

This post shares an experience of using EF Core scaffolding to change data access technology from ADO.NET to EF-Core in a small .NET CLI tool project. The project is Achievement Quantifier., which tracks and manages achievements. It uses Spectre.Console commands for the user interface and ADO.NET for

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Achievement Quantifier .NET CLI Tool from Zero to First Deployment using Spectre.Console.Cli, ADO.NET, and SQLite

This post showcases Achievement Quantifier - a .NET CLI tool for tracking and managing achievements. Here is how it works. Define achievement classes: > aq class add -n "Do programming" -u "Git commits" info: AQ.Console.Commands.AddAchievementClass[0] Added 'AchievementClass { Id: 1, Name: Do

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Arithmetic Trainer Round 3 - Generating Problems on Arbitrary Intervals

The previous two posts discussed Arithmetic Trainer from zero to an initial prototype and implementing multiple configurable training activities. However, all questions are generated on the interval 2 to 99. This post revisits the Arithmetic Trainer project and discusses question generation on arbitrary intervals. For example, training on the interval

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Arithmetic Trainer Round 2 - Timed and Fixed Length Tests

A previous post introduces the Arithmetic Trainer project and showcases its development from zero to an initial prototype. This post revisits the project and extends it with additional training activities. Arithmetic Trainer currently offers a single training activity: Practice, which lets the user solve problems at their own pace, as

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Building a C# Console App for Practising Basic Arithmetic

This post showcases the development of Arithmetic Trainer from zero to a polished initial version. Arithmetic Trainer is a simple console-based app for practising basic arithmetic. Here is an example of a typical practice session: Starting practice on Multiplication in range [2, 99]. Press q to stop. 23 * 3 = ? 69

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Guider Upgrade with System.CommandLine - Implementing Help and Version Options

Another post outlines how to package a console project into a .NET CLI tool, using an example project called Guider. This tool can be invoked from the terminal as guidgen to generate a GUID and copy it to the clipboard for convenient access. This post extends Guider into a proper

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TimeProvider and FakeTimeProvider - Improving Recurring Tasks Manager Project

This post showcases the use of the TimeProvider abstraction in C#, focusing on its two implementations: TimeProvider.System, a replacement for DateTime.UtcNow, and FakeTimeProvider, which allows precise date and time control in unit tests. The project used as a practice ground is the Recurring Tasks Manager, first introduced in