Code Samples - Grant's Blog

This repository contains some code samples from my blog posts. I sometimes upload code to separate repos (like for C# / .NET and WinForms), or to Gist or JsFiddle for shorter snippets.

The list below has a link to each blog post, followed by the relevant code for that post.

APIs

• Discover where the ISS is, where it will be, and who's on it with the ISS Notify API (blog, code)

Dev Tools

• Can I compare files using VS Code? (blog, code)
• Cool markdown tricks for GitHub (blog, code)
• Why doesn't VS 2022 show my WinForms UI at design time? (blog, code)
• What is a Git alias? (blog, code)

Frameworks

ASP.NET Core

• Similar endpoints, swagger pages, and a DevOps fail (blog, code)

WinForms

• Passing Data Between Forms in WinForms (blog, code)

WPF

• Filtering a ListView in WPF Using a TextBox and CollectionViewSource (blog, code)

Languages

C#

• An Extension Method to Pass a Column Name to SqlDataReader.GetFieldValue (blog, code)
• How do I convert my code from C# to VB.NET (or from VB.NET to C#)? (blog, code)
• How to generate and verify TOTP 2FA codes (in C#) (blog, code)
• Obsolete Attribute on a Class is Ignored When an Interface is Involved (blog, code)
• Using an application config file with a .NET Standard app and NUnit 3 (blog, code)
• What is mocking a dependency? (blog, code)
• What is the NUnit constraint model and should you use it? (blog, code)

Erlang

• Calculate Easter and other holidays in Erlang (blog, code)
• Keep your EUnit teardown logic as simple as possible! (blog, code)
• Modify a config file in Erlang (blog, code)

Misc

• Creating Your First Chrome Extension (blog, code)
• Running Windows XP in VirtualBox (blog, code)
• Tweet random posts from a Ghost blog using AWS Lambda (blog, code)
• Tweet random blog posts from an RSS feed using AWS Lambda (blog, code)
• Where should I store application data in Windows? (blog, code)