C# Local Functions are a great new feature in C# 7. Local functions are nested functions. They are methods declared in another method and run in the context of that method. They are methods that are used only by one other method and help to keep each method small and focused. For example, I use local functions quite a bit in Python with recursive functions that require a bit of initialization...

Tuples in C# 7 and Visual Studio 2017 received a much needed facelift. I, personally, find them just as enjoyable as tuples in Python given the brevity of the new syntax, optional naming of the tuple elements (which makes a world of difference in self-documenting code), and the ability to deconstruct tuples. Below is a C# 7 method, called CalculateAreaOfCircle, that calculates the area of a...

I find that many contributors to website hosted by Orchard CMS, love the feature that puts a link directly on the content that takes you to the edit view for that content. It seems to be one of those things that sort of falls through the cracks. You can see what it looks like on […]

There is a blog for the Hungarian Microsoft Student Partners developed by Márk Bartha and Dominik Földi here on DotNest which is a great proof of how far you can get using only the built-in DotNest features and the Media Theme for theming. Microsoft Student Partners are a group of university students who are enthusiastic about Microsoft technologies, regularly organizing meetups and workshops in their country. This blog has been written in Hungarian but it's still a really good example of a nice and heavily customized DotNest website.

I can't actually believe this but Edge doesn't let you save a page you have open in the browser to your computer. Not all that helpful for your standard HTML page but if you are trying to save a JavaScript or CSS file, Edge will open it in the browser then not let you save it. Which is just pants. So unless the website you are trying to download the js from has explicitly set the download option on the link to their js file, Edge will just make everything a massive pain in the ass.

This Wednesday February 22nd was the second day of the Orchard Harvest conference 2017 in New York.

For the last presentation of the day, Sébastien explained what Orchard Core is all about. Orchard Core runs on ASP.NET Core, and as a consequence is leaner, faster, and cross-platform. One big change is that its content is persisted as documents instead of relational tables.

Sébastien Ros gave a surprise demo of YesSql, the document database interface over relational databases that powers Orchard Core’s data access. YesSql stores plain objects into documents stored on a relational database. It supports SQL Server, MySql, Postgre, Sqlite, LightningDB, and in-memory. YesSql also allows for querying those objects using queryable indexes. Those indexes are projections of documents into structured tables, that only exist for the purpose of being queried.