I was struggling the other day where one of my NuGet packages DLL that was installed in a separate MVC project was not being copied to my bin directory. I have discovered two potentially reasons why this was occurring. Read on for two different potential solutions.
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Dependent DLL is not getting copied to the build output folder in Visual Studio 
Published on Apr 14, 2019 by Jamie Munro
Two different versions of the same DLL with C#
Published on Apr 13, 2019 by Jamie Munro
Recently I was stuck with the error Try removing one of the references or sign them to enable side-by-side. This is not a common error, but I received it because I was in the very unfortunate situation of requiring to have two different versions of the same DLL installed in my solution. Let's explore how I worked around this.
HtmlHelper Extenstion to convert an object to JSON with C#
Published on Apr 10, 2019 by Jamie Munro
Let's create an HTML Extension for C#'s HtmlHelper class that converts a class or object to JSON for use with your JavaScript code. I use this in my MVC projects inside my Razor Views. The solution leverages NewtonSoft's JsonConvert NuGet package.
Tags: ASP.NET | c# | htmlextension | json
C# Convert any value to a boolean
Published on Apr 5, 2019 by Jamie Munro
Problem
You accept a variety of user input that you want to intelligently convert to a valid boolean variable. E.g. string of On = true. No = false.
Solution
C# Ordinal String Extension
Published on Mar 29, 2019 by Jamie Munro
Let's explore creating an extension method to convert a number to an ordinal value, e.g. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.
Tags: ASP.NET | c# | ordinal | modulus
Entity Framework's Code-First with an ObjectContext
Published on Mar 20, 2019 by Jamie Munro
Pass Model or Form Data with MVC when redirecting
Published on Mar 13, 2019 by Jamie Munro
Compile Views with your MVC project
Published on Mar 6, 2019 by Jamie Munro
C# Truncate String Extension
Published on Feb 28, 2019 by Jamie Munro
MVC: Accessing the RouteData inside of your C# code
Published on Feb 27, 2019 by Jamie Munro
C# HtmlExtension to display SVGs
Published on Feb 16, 2019 by Jamie Munro
C# Improving string.IsNullOrEmpty readability
Published on Feb 5, 2019 by Jamie Munro
C# Convert date from UTC to EST
Published on Jun 7, 2017 by Jamie Munro
How to return a CSV from ASP.NET Web API using C#
Published on May 4, 2017 by Jamie Munro
Advanced Automatic Ninject Bindings
Published on Jan 13, 2014 by Jamie Munro
Automatic Ninject Bindings
Published on Jan 7, 2014 by Jamie Munro
Automapper Performance Testing
Published on May 27, 2013 by Jamie Munro
Why the Repository Pattern
Published on May 20, 2013 by Jamie Munro
Entity Framework Beginner’s Guide Done Right
Published on May 13, 2013 by Jamie Munro
Why Java Makes Me Tremble In My Boots
Published on May 6, 2013 by Jamie Munro
My First Experiences with Kinect for Windows - @KinectWindows
Published on Mar 5, 2013 by Jamie Munro
Javascript, the Back Button, and Windows Phone 8 Development
Published on Feb 18, 2013 by Jamie Munro
The Best Way to Prevent SQL Injection
Published on Sep 19, 2012 by Jamie Munro