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ASP.NET MVC client-side Redirect methods and ActionResult

A little background

When in need of redirecting the user on client-side (e.g. when in ajax actions), Most of the developers choose the easy way and just return a JavascriptResult('window.location = ...') and passing to it Url.Action(...).

But what is wrong with this?

1. Testability: There are several ways that the above approach makes unit-testing difficult (if not impossible).

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@echo off

setlocal

rem ===================
rem Set GIT_HOME
rem ===================

rem Read the Git for Windows installation path from the Registry.
:REG_QUERY

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@echo off

setlocal

rem Read the Git for Windows installation path from the Registry.
:REG_QUERY
for /f "skip=2 delims=: tokens=1*" %%a in ('reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE%WOW%\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Git_is1" /v InstallLocation 2^> nul') do (
    for /f "tokens=3" %%z in ("%%a") do (
        set GIT=%%z:%%b
    )

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Some background...

For one of my projects, I have a worker role on azure that performs some action in the background. In fact there are several of them that work in an orchestration together.

While building these workers, I noticed that I'm going to need one way to find out whether the worker is OK in the background and possibly get some very abstract information out of it. Having such a health monitorning is vital for a system which is composed of many background workers.

So the main question is:

How can we add a minimalistic http end-point to a worker

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So I recently started building an app using angular and node (express). To avoid any session memory and truly scalable and segregated API, I decided to build a token-based authentication for my app.

So what is JWT?

As defined on their website:

JSON Web Token (JWT) is a compact URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties. The claims in a JWT are encoded as a JSON object that is digitally signed using JSON Web Signature (JWS).

What I found interesting about JWT is that:

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Save the following script in a file called ot.cmd (replace ot with any shortcut name you wish to use) and place it in a folder -- say c:\temp\onetime-shortcut

onetime time %*

run the following command to add this path to your windows PATH:

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• Install VS 2015 "beta7 tooling" from here. -- it only works in IE for me!
• Close all visual studios
• Install beta-7

dnvm upgrade-self
dnvm install latest
dnvm alias default 1.0.0-beta7
dnvm use default -p

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If you have Oops! with no details, do this:

<add key="ASPNET_DETAILED_ERRORS" value="true" />

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public static IQueryable<T> WhereIdIsAnyOf<T>(this IQueryable<T> source, int[] ids)
{
    var parameter = Expression.Parameter(typeof(T));
    Expression expression = null;

    foreach(var value in ids)
    {
        // NOTE: here instead of refering to the id directly (via Expression.Constant)
        // an intermediary object is used to refer to the value
        // to avoid compile-time constant folding

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public static IEnumerable<IEnumerable<T>> Slice<T>(this IEnumerable<T> items, int size, bool fixedSize = false, T defaultValue = default(T))
{
    var start = 0;
    items = items.ToArray();
    var total = items.Count();
    while (start < total)
    {
        var res = items.Skip(start).Take(size).ToList();
        while (res.Count < size)
        {