Cannot open VS 2015 Web project in VS 2017
Brand new installs of Visual Studio 2017 do not seem to be able to open some older web projects created in Visual Studio 2015 or before. To fix you need to add one line to…
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Implementing the retry pattern for async tasks in c#
This post is a follow on from Implementing a simple retry pattern in c# [https://alastaircrabtree.com/implementing-a-simple-retry-pattern-in-c/]. Tasks, async and await are rapidly becoming be default API flavours in many dotnet libraries and the…
Choose the right return type for WebApi controllers
WebApi controller actions can return a variety of response types: HttpResponseMessage, IHttpActionResult, CLR objects and then the Task based variety of each for async actions. But which one is best? And how do we unit…