Author Archives: Chris Pateman - PR Coder

Returning an image from a General Handler in .NET

You know how to return a string, you know how to return an integer and you know how to return JSON, but do you know how to return an image from a General Handler file (ashx) in .NET 4.6? Well if not then fear not as I have the answer. Simply put you make sureContinueContinue reading “Returning an image from a General Handler in .NET”

Password Regex with optional Special Characters Symbols

After number of failed attempts I have gotten to the Regex that validates your password with optional symbols. This example will validate it has 1 lowercase letter, 1 uppercase letter, 1 number and then the symbols are optional, but it also validates the symbols added in are acceptable.

Visual Studio Team Services Gulp Task Setup

The Visual Studio Team Services Gulp task is a free pre-built module in the VSTS build and release section that runs, yes you guessed it, gulp tasks. As much as it is very good and the directions on use are good, but one part I found hard was how to pass the arguments into the task. Therefore instead of just showing how to do this, I will also give some general information on the use as well.

What is in a projects builds and releases

While working with other companies I have seen multiple builds and releases, plus also reading books like ‘Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation’. Through this I have learnt more and more about what should really be in the builds and releases of code applications. I would like to describe how I think they should both be used to create a scalable, reliable and repeatable process to bring confidence to your projects.

How to build Azure Service Bus Relay Sender and Listener?

This is one of them, I tried to do and found it hard so here is how I did it, post. I was assigned to look into how to build a Sender and Listener using the Azure Service Bus Relay, so we could send data from Azure to On Premise securely. Now there might be debates on is this is secure and compared to other methods, but that is not for what I was asked and what this post is about.

Should you unit test CSS?

When I told a college I was going to write some unit tests for CSS they went crazy, and I do see why, however I think it can be valuable in the right way. I would like to describe to you why I think doing unit tests on CSS can be worth your time as a developer and also beneficial to the project.

Azure Container with PowerShell

When I was trying to use PowerShell to action some Azure functionality, I found it very scattered and hard to get one answer, so here I give you the golden goose for Adding, Removing, Emptying and Copying files to an Azure Container using PowerShell.