Elemental.JsonResource

Json Resource file support in C# projects.

This provides an alternative to using resx files to defined resources in C# projects. The benefits over resx are:

• human readable file format (try writing resx xml from scratch without documentation)
• generated C# code doesn't get included in project/source control
• Doesn't require modifying the .csproj (adding a single resx file will add ~12 lines to your csproj file)
• Doesn't require Visual Studio to function. (resx files don't work in VS Code for example) 

Any experienced .NET developer knows that even though .NET applications have a garbage collector, memory leaks occur all the time. It’s not that the garbage collector has bugs, it’s just that there are ways we can (easily) cause memory leaks in a managed language.

Memory leaks are sneakily bad creatures. It’s easy to ignore them for a very long time, while they slowly destroy the application. With memory leaks, your memory consumption grows, creating GC pressure and performance problems. Finally, the program will just crash on an out-of-memory exception.

In this article, we will go over the most common reasons for memory leaks in .NET programs. All examples are in C#, but they are relevant to other languages.  

A little library that can be used for bursting particles effects on buttons and other elements

• WebP support - People have been after this for a while! We provide comprehensive support for decoding and encoding WebP images. 

Simple i18n support for your Angular apps 

 Easy ways to create a translation mechanism for your Angular and Ionic applications that does not rely on third-party libraries.

In this article, I am going to show a quick and easy way to provide a translation (aka i18n) support for your Angular and Ionic applications. 

public abstract class BaseEntity
{
    protected BaseEntity()
    {
        TrackingState = TrackingState.Nochange;
    }

    public TrackingState TrackingState { get; set; }
}

public enum TrackingState
{
    Nochange,
    Add,
    Update,
    Remove,
}

public class Customer : BaseEntity
{
    public int CustomerId { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Company { get; set; }
    public virtual ICollection<Phone> Phones { get; set; }
}

public class Phone : BaseEntity
{
    public int PhoneId { get; set; }
    public string Number { get; set; }
    public string PhoneType { get; set; }
    public int CustomerId { get; set; }
    public virtual Customer Customer { get; set; }
}

public class Recipe4Context : DbContext
{
    public Recipe4Context() : base("Recipe4ConnectionString") { }
    public DbSet<Customer> Customers { get; set; }
    public DbSet<Phone> Phones { get; set; }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        // Do not persist TrackingState property to data store
        // This property is used internally to track state of
        // disconnected entities across service boundaries.
        // Leverage the Custom Code First Conventions features from Entity Framework 6.
        // Define a convention that performs a configuration for every entity
        // that derives from a base entity class.
        modelBuilder.Types<BaseEntity>().Configure(x => x.Ignore(y => y.TrackingState));
        modelBuilder.Entity<Customer>().ToTable("Customers");
        modelBuilder.Entity<Phone>().ToTable("Phones");
}
}

<connectionStrings>
  <add name="Recipe4ConnectionString"
    connectionString="Data Source=.;
    Initial Catalog=EFRecipes;
    Integrated Security=True;
    MultipleActiveResultSets=True"
    providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>

protected void Application_Start()
{
    // Disable Entity Framework Model Compatibilty
    Database.SetInitializer<Recipe1Context>(null);
    // The bidirectional navigation properties between related entities
    // create a self-referencing loop that breaks Web API's effort to
    // serialize the objects as JSON. By default, Json.NET is configured
    // to error when a reference loop is detected. To resolve problem,
    // simply configure JSON serializer to ignore self-referencing loops.
    GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.Formatters.JsonFormatter
        .SerializerSettings.ReferenceLoopHandling =
            Newtonsoft.Json.ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore;
    ...
}

public static EntityState Set(TrackingState trackingState)
{
    switch (trackingState)
    {
        case TrackingState.Add:
            return EntityState.Added;
        case TrackingState.Update:
            return EntityState.Modified;
        case TrackingState.Remove:
            return EntityState.Deleted;
        default:
            return EntityState.Unchanged;
    }
}

public class CustomerController : ApiController
{
    // GET api/customer
    public IEnumerable<Customer> Get()
    {
        using (var context = new Recipe4Context())
        {
            return context.Customers.Include(x => x.Phones).ToList();
        }
    }

    // GET api/customer/5
    public Customer Get(int id)
    {
        using (var context = new Recipe4Context())
        {
            return context.Customers.Include(x => x.Phones).FirstOrDefault(x => x.CustomerId == id);
        }
    }

    [ActionName("Update")]
    public HttpResponseMessage UpdateCustomer(Customer customer)
    {
        using (var context = new Recipe4Context())
        {
            // Add object graph to context setting default state of 'Added'.
            // Adding parent to context automatically attaches entire graph
            // (parent and child entities) to context and sets state to 'Added'
            // for all entities.
            context.Customers.Add(customer);
            foreach (var entry in context.ChangeTracker.Entries<BaseEntity>())
            {
                entry.State = EntityStateFactory.Set(entry.Entity.TrackingState);
                if (entry.State == EntityState.Modified)
                {
                    // For entity updates, we fetch a current copy of the entity
                    // from the database and assign the values to the orginal values
                    // property from the Entry object. OriginalValues wrap a dictionary
                    // that represents the values of the entity before applying changes.
                    // The Entity Framework change tracker will detect
                    // differences between the current and original values and mark
                    // each property and the entity as modified. Start by setting
                    // the state for the entity as 'Unchanged'.
                    entry.State = EntityState.Unchanged;
                    var databaseValues = entry.GetDatabaseValues();
                    entry.OriginalValues.SetValues(databaseValues);
                }
            }

        context.SaveChanges();
    }

    return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK, customer);
}

    [HttpDelete]
    [ActionName("Cleanup")]
    public HttpResponseMessage Cleanup()
    {
        using (var context = new Recipe4Context())
        {
            context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand("delete from phones");
            context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand("delete from customers");
            return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK);
        }
    }
}

PostSharp 6.0 is the biggest refactoring since the 2.0 version released in July 2010. For a good cause: PostSharp 6.0 now runs natively in .NET Core 2.0. Previous versions of PostSharp executed only under .NET Framework at build time and the support for .NET Core was achieved by using a load of hacks that ended up being unmaintainable, warranting this big refactoring.

Let’s have a look at the new features of PostSharp 6.0 :

• Support for .NET Core 2.0-2.1 and .NET Standard 2.0.
• Support for Portable PDB.
• Support for C# 7.2.
• Ending the PostSharp versioning hell side-by-side: backward compatibility within the same major version.
• Logging: robustness to faults in the logging subsystem.
• Logging: no need to initialize before the first logged method is hit.
• Caching: preventing concurrent execution (locking).
• Visual Studio tooling: support for the new CPS-based project systems.
• GDPR compliance: we no longer collect your name and email for trial, nor use unsecure HTTP, nor use non-resettable user id hashes. 

import React, { Component } from "react";

class TableHeader extends Component {
  raiseSort = path => {
    console.log("raiseSort", path);
    const sortColumn = { ...this.props.sortColumn };
    if (sortColumn.path === path) {
      sortColumn.order = sortColumn.order === "asc" ? "desc" : "asc";
    } else {
      sortColumn.path = path;
      sortColumn.order = "asc";
    }
    this.props.onSort(sortColumn);
  };

  render() {
    return (
      <thead>
        <tr>
          {this.props.columns.map(column => (
            <th onClick={() => this.raiseSort(column.path)}>{column.label}</th>
          ))}
        </tr>
      </thead>
    );
  }
}

export default TableHeader;

import TableHeader from "./common/tableHeader";

  columns = [
    { path: "title", label: "Title" },
    { path: "genre.name", label: "Genre" },
    { path: "numberInStock", label: "Stock" },
    { path: "dailyRentalRate", label: "Rate" },
    {},
    {}
  ];

  render() {
    const { movies, onDelete, onLike, onSort, sortColumn } = this.props;

    return (
      <table className="table">
        <TableHeader
          columns={this.columns}
          sortColumn={sortColumn}
          onSort={onSort}
        />
        <tbody>

index.js:1375 Warning: Each child in a list should have a unique "key" prop.
Check the render method of `TableHeader`. See https://fb.me/react-warning-keys for more information.

class MoviesTable extends Component {
  columns = [
    { path: "title", label: "Title" },
    { path: "genre.name", label: "Genre" },
    { path: "numberInStock", label: "Stock" },
    { path: "dailyRentalRate", label: "Rate" },
    { key: "like" },
    { key: "delete" }
  ];

  render() {
    return (
      <thead>
        <tr>
          {this.props.columns.map(column => (
            <th
              key={column.path || column.key}
              style={{ cursor: "pointer" }}
              onClick={() => this.raiseSort(column.path)}
            >
              {column.label}
            </th>
          ))}
        </tr>
      </thead>
    );

import React, { Component } from "react";

class TableBody extends Component {
  render() {
    const { data, columns } = this.props;

    return (
      <tbody>
        {data.map(item => (
          <tr>
            {columns.map(column => (
              <td></td>
            ))}
          </tr>
        ))}
      </tbody>
    );
  }
}

export default TableBody;

{movies.map(movie => (
  <tr key={movie._id}>
    <td>{movie.title}</td>

<td>{item[column.path]}</td>

  getPropValue(obj, path) {
    if (!path) {
      return obj;
    }

    const properties = path.split(".");
    return this.getPropValue(obj[properties.shift()], properties.join("."));
  }

<td>{getPropValue(item, column.path)}</td>

class MoviesTable extends Component {
  columns = [
    { path: "title", label: "Title" },
    { path: "genre.name", label: "Genre" },
    { path: "numberInStock", label: "Stock" },
    { path: "dailyRentalRate", label: "Rate" },
    {
      key: "like",
      content: movie => (
        <Like liked={movie.liked} onClick={() => this.props.onLike(movie)} />
      )
    },
    {
      key: "delete",
      content: movie => (
        <button
          onClick={() => this.props.onDelete(movie)}
          className="btn btn-danger btn-sm"
        >
          Delete
        </button>
      )
    }
  ];

  renderCell = (item, column) => {
    if (column.content) {
      return column.content(item);
    }

    return this.getPropValue(item, column.path);
  };

  createKey = (item, column) => {
    return item._id + (column.path || column.key);
  };

  render() {
    const { data, columns } = this.props;

    return (
      <tbody>
        {data.map(item => (
          <tr key={item._id}>
            {columns.map(column => (
              <td key={this.createKey(item, column)}>
                {this.renderCell(item, column)}
              </td>
            ))}
          </tr>
        ))}
      </tbody>
    );
  }

//...
import TableBody from "./common/tableBody";
//...

class MoviesTable extends Component {
  // ...

  render() {
    const { movies, onSort, sortColumn } = this.props;

    return (
      <table className="table">
        <TableHeader
          columns={this.columns}
          sortColumn={sortColumn}
          onSort={onSort}
        />
        <TableBody columns={this.columns} data={movies} />
      </table>
    );
  }
}

  renderSortIcon = column => {
    const { sortColumn } = this.props;

    if (column.path !== sortColumn.path) {
      return null;
    }

    if (sortColumn.order === "asc") {
      return <i className="fa fa-sort-asc" />;
    }

    return <i className="fa fa-sort-desc" />;
  };

{column.label} {this.renderSortIcon(column)}

import TableBody from "./tableBody";
import TableHeader from "./tableHeader";

import TableBody from "./tableBody";
import TableHeader from "./tableHeader";

class Table extends Component {
  render() {
    const { columns, sortColumn, onSort, data } = this.props;
    return (
      <table className="table">
        <TableHeader
          columns={columns}
          sortColumn={sortColumn}
          onSort={onSort}
        />
        <TableBody columns={columns} data={data} />
      </table>
    );
  }
}

export default Table;

//...

import Table from "./common/table";

class MoviesTable extends Component {
  //... 

  render() {
    const { movies, onSort, sortColumn } = this.props;

    return (
      <Table
        columns={this.columns}
        sortColumn={sortColumn}
        onSort={onSort}
        data={movies}
      />
    );
  }
}

ReSharper 2021.3 Brings Visual Studio 2022 Support, More C# 10 Features, and Improved Support for Nullable Reference Types and C#!