18 Best .NET Blogs for C# Developers to Read in 2021 

On June 23rd, the WebKit project froze its Subversion tree and transitioned management and interaction with our source code to git on GitHub. 

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 CREATE TABLE [Geo](
[id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[Location] [geography] NULL
)

 insert into Geo( Location , long, lat ) values
( geography::STGeomFromText ('POINT(-121.527200 45.712113)', 4326))

using System.Data.Entity.Spatial;

namespace EFGeoTests.Models
{
    public class GeoLocation
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public DbGeography Location { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public string Type { get; set; }

        public override string ToString()
        {
            return string.Format("Name:{0}, Location:{1}", Name, Location);
        }
    }
}

using System;
using System.Data.Entity;
using EFGeoTests.Models;

namespace EFGeoTests.Config
{
    public class MyContext : DbContext
    {
        public DbSet<GeoLocation> GeoLocations { get; set; }

        public MyContext()
            : base("Connection1")
        {
            this.Database.Log = sql => Console.Write(sql);
        }
    }
}

   private static DbGeography createPoint(double longitude, double latitude,  int coordinateSystemId = 4326)
  {
       var text = string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.NumberFormat,"POINT({0} {1})", longitude, latitude);
       return DbGeography.PointFromText(text, coordinateSystemId);
  }

GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]]

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the current shape in the collection
        /// </summary>
        public Shape Current
        {
            get 
            {
                if (_disposed) throw new ObjectDisposedException("Shapefile");
                if (!_opened) throw new InvalidOperationException("Shapefile not open.");
               
                // get the metadata
                StringDictionary metadata = null;
                if (!RawMetadataOnly)
                {
                    metadata = new StringDictionary();
                    for (int i = 0; i < _dbReader.FieldCount; i++)
                    {
                        string value = _dbReader.GetValue(i).ToString();
                        if (_dbReader.GetDataTypeName(i) == "DBTYPE_WVARCHAR")
                        {
                            // برای نمایش متون فارسی نیاز است
                            value = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(Encoding.GetEncoding(720).GetBytes(value));
                        }
                        metadata.Add(_dbReader.GetName(i),
                            value);
                    }
                }

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Catfood.Shapefile;

namespace EFGeoTests
{
    public class MapPoint
    {
        public Dictionary<string, string> Metadata { set; get; }
        public double X { set; get; }
        public double Y { set; get; }
    }

    public static class ShapeReader
    {
        public static IList<MapPoint> ReadShapeFile(string path)
        {
            var results = new List<MapPoint>();

            using (var shapefile = new Shapefile(path))
            {
                foreach (var shape in shapefile)
                {
                    if (shape.Type != ShapeType.Point)
                        continue;

                    var shapePoint = shape as ShapePoint;
                    if (shapePoint == null)
                        continue;


                     var metadataNames = shape.GetMetadataNames();
                    if(!metadataNames.Any())
                        continue;

                    var metadata = new Dictionary<string, string>();
                    foreach (var metadataName in metadataNames)
                    {
                        metadata.Add(metadataName,shape.GetMetadata(metadataName));
                    }

                    results.Add(new MapPoint
                    {
                        Metadata = metadata,
                        X = shapePoint.Point.X,
                        Y = shapePoint.Point.Y
                    });
                }
            }

            return results;
        }
    }
}

            var points = ShapeReader.ReadShapeFile("IranShapeFiles\\places.shp");
            using (var context = new MyContext())
            {
                context.Configuration.AutoDetectChangesEnabled = false;
                context.Configuration.ProxyCreationEnabled = false;
                context.Configuration.ValidateOnSaveEnabled = false;

                if (context.GeoLocations.Any())
                    return;

                foreach (var point in points)
                {
                    context.GeoLocations.Add(new GeoLocation
                    {
                        Name = point.Metadata["name"],
                        Type = point.Metadata["type"],
                        Location = createPoint(point.X, point.Y)
                    });
                }

                context.SaveChanges();
            }

            var tehran = createPoint(51.4179604, 35.6884243);

            using (var context = new MyContext())
            {
                // find any locations within 5 kilometers ordered by distance
                var locations = context.GeoLocations
                    .Where(loc => loc.Location.Distance(tehran) < 5000)
                    .OrderBy(loc => loc.Location.Distance(tehran))
                    .ToList();

                foreach (var location in locations)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(location.Name);
                }
            }

            var tehran = createPoint(51.4179604, 35.6884243);
            using (var context = new MyContext())
            {
                // find any locations within 5 kilometers ordered by distance
                var tehranLocation = context.GeoLocations.FirstOrDefault(loc => loc.Location.SpatialEquals(tehran));
                if (tehranLocation != null)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(tehranLocation.Type);
                }
            }

SQL Server 2019 introduces support for the widely used UTF-8 character encoding. This has been a longtime requested feature and can be set as a database-level or column-level default encoding for Unicode string data.  

 C:\>sqlcmd -S .
1> create login [MachineName\TestUser] from windows;
2> go
1> exec sp_addsrvrolemember 'MachineName\TestUser','sysadmin'
2> go
1> select is_srvrolemember('sysadmin', 'MachineName\TestUser')
2> go
-----------
1
(1 rows affected)
1>

 C:\>sqlcmd -S .
1> use master
2> go
Changed database context to 'master'.
1> create login test_user with password='123#123'
2> go
1> exec sp_addsrvrolemember 'test_user','sysadmin'
2> go
1>

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