Ignoring a property in Fixture

I've been using Fixture for unit testing, and today I needed to ignore a property in a model. This is how its done:

Querying an IIS Express site over the LAN

Open this file:

C:\Users[YourName]\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config


Add this row to the bindings element

<binding bindinginformation="*:yyyy:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" protocol="http" />

where yyyy is your chosen port number and xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is IP address on your network.


Run these two commands in a admin cmd prompt

netsh http add urlacl url=http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:yyyyy/ user=everyone

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="IISExpressWeb" dir=in protocol=tcp localport=1914 profile=private remoteip=localsubnet action=allow

EF edmx update wizard not responding when updating models from SQL Server 2017

Recently when updating my db-first edmx from my SQL Server 2017 database, the update wizard would hang. I overcame this problem by temporarily changing the compatibility level of the db to 2012 like so:

So far this seems to have no ill-effects.

Completed 406 Not Acceptable with Devise

I had some trouble after an update of ruby/rails/gems on a something I hadn't worked on for ages. When register a user with Devise it would error with a Completed 406 Not Acceptable with Devise
As usual Stack Overflow came to the rescue, where I found this: "Devise responding to json by default has been removed from version 2.2" The fix was simple, I added this to my confif/application.rb and everything was working fine again:

config.to_prepare do
      DeviseController.respond_to :html, :json
    end

C# casting from parent to child object

For some reason I've never had to do this before (not that I can remember anyway), and it feels like I should have. I have a Child object that inherits from Parent. I want to turn an instance of a Parent object that I already have into a Child. I thought this might just be a simple cast but it doesn't work.

This SO post  was most helpful, and the neatest solution seemed to be this technique, serializing to json, and then back again:

 var serializedParent = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(parentInstance); 
 Child c  = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(serializedParent);