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benerdin / ReplicateStaticIndexes.cs

Last active December 14, 2015 02:49

Creates a Raven DocumentStore and creates static indexes on the primary and all secondary servers (static indexes are not replicated by design).

	/// <summary>
	/// Gets the document store.
	/// </summary>
	/// <returns>The document store.</returns>
	private static IDocumentStore GetDocumentStore()
	{
	// Create the DocumentStore (expensive operation).
	IDocumentStore documentStore = new DocumentStore
	{
	ConnectionStringName = "RavenDB",

benerdin / RavenDocumentStoreProvider.cs

Created March 14, 2013 13:27

This class attempts to instantiate a RavenDB DocumentStore when the "DocumentStore" getter is called. The DocumentStore is a thread-safe singleton that will only block other threads for a maximum of 30 seconds when the store is unavailable.

	using NLog;
	using Raven.Client;
	using Raven.Client.Document;
	using Raven.Client.Exceptions;
	using System;
	using System.Threading.Tasks;

	namespace Beyond.Services
	{
	/// <summary>

benerdin / FtpDataPublisher.cs

Last active December 16, 2015 20:28

.NET FTP Code- List files- Delete files- Upload a file

	using NLog;
	using System;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using System.IO;
	using System.Linq;
	using System.Net;
	using System.Text;

	namespace Brian.Federici
	{

benerdin / UploadImage

Last active December 17, 2015 05:08

Demonstrates how to upload a file using a controller action in ASP.NET MVC.

	/// <summary>
	/// POST: /UploadImage
	/// Saves an image to the server, resizing it appropriately.
	/// </summary>
	/// <returns>A JSON response.</returns>
	[HttpPost]
	public ActionResult UploadImage(int id)
	{
	// Validate we have a file being posted
	if (Request.Files.Count == 0)

benerdin / nlog-config.xml

Created May 28, 2013 19:34

NLog Configuration

	<nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
	<extensions>
	<add assembly="Assembly.Namespace" />
	</extensions>
	<targets>
	<target xsi:type="Debugger" name="Debugger" />
	<target xsi:type="Mail" name="Mailer" html="true" addNewLines="true" to="[email protected]" bcc="" cc="" from=""Brian Federici" <[email protected]>" smtpUserName="smtpUser" enableSsl="false" smtpPassword="smtpPassword" smtpAuthentication="Basic" smtpServer="192.168.1.100" smtpPort="25" />
	<target xsi:type="File" name="file" layout="${longdate} ${logger} ${message}" fileName="${basedir}/${level}.log" />
	</targets>
	<rules>

benerdin / PropertyReflection.cs

Created May 30, 2013 14:20

Code snippet for reflecting on a class and appending properties to a StringBuilder. For System types, this will ignore appending properties (e.g. the Length property won't be appended for System.String).

	private string GetModelDescription()
	{
	var sb = new StringBuilder();
	var type = typeof(YourType);
	sb.AppendFormat("{0} ({1})\n", type.Name, type.UnderlyingSystemType.ToString());
	AppendPropertiesDescription(type, sb, " ");
	return sb.ToString();
	}

	private void AppendPropertiesDescription(Type type, StringBuilder sb, string prefix)

benerdin / IISTaskManager.cs

Last active June 1, 2020 03:43

Static class that allows you to run a background task that IIS won't re-purpose until its execution is complete.

	using NLog;
	using System;
	using System.Threading.Tasks;
	using System.Web.Hosting;

	namespace Web.Models
	{
	/// <summary>
	/// Static class for running background tasks in IIS.
	/// Any spawned threads are registered properly with IIS

benerdin / nant-foreach-xmlpoke.xml

Last active December 29, 2015 00:59

Example of how to use nAnt's <foreach> and <xmlpoke> tasks.

	<!--
	Given the following files in C:\
	* app.1.config
	* app.2.config
	* app.3.config
	* file.txt

	This task will perform 3 iterations and set ${filename} to the following:
	* C:\app.1.config
	* C:\app.2.config

benerdin / DownloadAndResizeStream.cs

Last active January 1, 2016 18:59

Download and resize an image to a Bitmap using the ImageResizer nuget package. The resulting Bitmap is copied to a MemoryStream and returned.

	/*
	Make sure to wrap a using() around any calls to DownloadAndResizeStream:

	using (var stream = DownloadAndResizeStream(uri, 100, 100, true)) {
	// Do what you need to with "stream" here
	}
	*/

	private Stream DownloadAndResizeStream(Uri sourceImageUrl, int width, int height, bool crop)
	{

benerdin / CompressionExtensions.cs

Created January 14, 2014 22:27

Extension methods for compressing and decompressing a string using GZipStream.

	/// <summary>
	/// Encapsulates extension methods related to compression.
	/// </summary>
	public static class CompressionExtensions
	{
	/// <summary>
	/// Compresses <paramref name="uncompressedString"/> and returns the result.
	/// </summary>
	/// <param name="uncompressedString">An uncompressed string.</param>
	/// <returns>A base-64 string.</returns>

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