Add jQuery DataTables grid to an ASP.NET Core MVC web application
ASP.NET does not provide sortable, searchable tables. jQuery DataTables is a popular way to display user-friendly data in an ASP.NET Core MVC web application. Set up the environment Add the System.Linq.Dynamic.Core NuGet package to the web application…
The user account does not have permission to run this task
When a Scheduled task is created by another user (or SYSTEM) most of the time only that user can manually trigger the task execution. When you try to execute the scheduled task from the user interface you can get the error message: The user account does…
Error unprotecting the session cookie in an ASP.NET Core MVC application.
The new ASP.NET Core MVC framework automatically displays a message for the user to accept the application’s privacy policy. The default message is “Use this space to summarize your privacy and cookie use policy.” No cookies are saved…
Set the environment for an ASP.NET Core MVC web application
When the ASP.NET Core MVC web application starts, reads the name of the environment for an environment variable of the host computer. The compiled application contains the configuration for all supported environments, making possible to build and deploy…
Enable .NET Core Entity Framework Linq query execution
When we create a new .NET Core class it only contains the using System; reference. To enable Linq database queries in a .NET Core project, add using System.Linq; using System; using System.Linq; To enable the usage of .Include() in the Linq queries, add…
Return values to the controller in the model from the ASP.NET MVC view
When we create an ASP.NET MVC web application, the model (an object) is the easiest way to return values from the view to the controller. For the view to be able to return the values in the model, make sure the model contains properties, not fields, for…
Error loading table definition of a PostgreSQL table
When a PostgreSQL table name contains uppercase letters there is no known way to get the table definition SQL script. When we right-click a table name in SQLPro for Postgres, and the column name has an uppercase letter and select Script as, CREATE to,…
Reverse engineer a database with AspNetCore in Visual Studio
For some reason the .NETCore designers did not think, that developers want to follow best practices by separating the data layer from the presentation layer. The Entity framework out of the box only works if the database is accessed from the main…
Use two GitHub accounts on the same computer
Many developers have multiple GitHub accounts. One for personal projects, and another one for their work or business. There is a way to access multiple accounts simultaneously from the same computer. Only one account at a time can be configured using the…
Change the AWS account to launch instances with Chef Test Kitchen
The Chef SDK contains Test Kitchen, that can launch server instances to test your Chef cookbooks. Test Kitchen uses the “chef_zero” provisioner to use your workstation as the virtual Chef server. To switch Test Kitchen to launch instances in…