Whilst building an API in .Net Core 3.1 recently I needed to decode a JWT token that we received from an authentication service. Here is a step by step guide explaining how to decode the JWT token in a .Net core application, in C#. Install the System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt Nuget Package Add using directive to C# file … Read more
I’d been hosting my site with Siteground for a number of years and in all honesty had a really good experience with them. However I’d been thinking about starting a new site and didn’t want to have to immediately double my hosting spend. I knew if I moved my website to Cloudways I’d be paying … Read more
At some point as a developer you’ll probably need to send JSON data to a database from a web application using an API, or read JSON data that’s been retrieved from an API. In order to do so, you’ll need to know how to convert a JavaScript object to JSON using JSON.stringify(), and how to … Read more
Following up my recent post which explains how to find a substring in a string in JavaScript, this post will be dealing with searching for a string or an object in an Array. It’s pretty common to have to search through an array to find a particular item when you’re working with JavaScript. For years … Read more
I’ve already written about how to add or insert an item to a C# List, but what about if you want to remove an item from a C# List? In this post I’ll provide examples showing how to remove a string from a list, remove an integer from a list, and how to remove a … Read more
I’ve been working on a website that uses data from a cloud based Dynamics CRM system lately, and one of the requirements involved us building an edit form for one of the entities. This particular entity had 3 different statuses – draft, active, cancelled and we needed to give the user a dropdown so that … Read more
To remove text from a string in javascript, you’ll first need to know how to check if the string contains the substring or character. I’ll start by explaining how to find out if the string contains the other substring, and then we will remove the substring from the main string, all using Javascript. For instance … Read more
Following on from my post about changing the Material UI Appbar background colour, here is a tutorial on using Material UI Icons in a React app. Before we dive into the detail I’m presuming that you’ve created a React app already, so once you are ready to start focusing on using icons in your Material … Read more
If you’re fairly new to git and you’ve found this post, you probably know how to clone a git repo, and now you’re wondering how to switch branches. When you clone the repo you’ll generally start out on the main/master branch, and now you want to change to a feature branch before you start coding. … Read more
Further to my post all about adding items to a C# list, this post will cover how to sort a C# List, including examples of sorting a C# list of strings or integers, and how to sort custom type lists. You may be trying to sort a C# list of custom objects and be receiving … Read more