public partial class SidebarMenuController : Controller
    {
        const int Min15 = 900;

        [ChildActionOnly]
        [OutputCache(Duration = Min15)]
        public virtual ActionResult Index()
        {
            return PartialView("_SidebarMenu");
        }
    }

using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using Core1RtmEmptyTest.Services;
 
namespace Core1RtmEmptyTest.ViewComponents
{
    public class SiteCopyright : ViewComponent
    {
        private readonly IMessagesService _messagesService;
 
        public SiteCopyright(IMessagesService messagesService)
        {
            _messagesService = messagesService;
        }
 
        public IViewComponentResult Invoke(int numberToTake)
        {
            var name = _messagesService.GetSiteName();
            return View(viewName: "Default", model: name);
        }
 
        //public async Task<IViewComponentResult> InvokeAsync(int numberToTake)
        //{
        //    return View();
        //}
    }
}

 /Views/Shared/Components/[NameOfComponent]/Default.cshtml

 /Views/[CurrentController]/Components/[NameOfComponent]/Default.cshtml

 <footer>
    <p>@await Component.InvokeAsync("SiteCopyright", new { numberToTake = 5 })</p>
</footer>

[ViewComponent]
public abstract class ViewComponent
{
   protected ViewComponent();
   public HttpContext HttpContext { get; }
   public ModelStateDictionary ModelState { get; }
   public HttpRequest Request { get; }
   public RouteData RouteData { get; }
   public IUrlHelper Url { get; set; }
   public IPrincipal User { get; }

   [Dynamic]  
   public dynamic ViewBag { get; }
   [ViewComponentContext]
   public ViewComponentContext ViewComponentContext { get; set; }
   public ViewContext ViewContext { get; }
   public ViewDataDictionary ViewData { get; }
   public ICompositeViewEngine ViewEngine { get; set; }

   //...
}

public IActionResult AddURLTest()
{
   return ViewComponent("AddURL");
}

$(document).ready (function(){
    $("#LoadSignIn").click(function(){
         $('#UserControl').load("/Home/AddURLTest");
    });
});

"dependencies": {
   "NETStandard.Library": "1.6.0",
   "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc": "1.0.0",
   "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Tools": {
   "version": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
   "type": "build"
  }
},
"tools": {
   "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Tools": "1.0.0-preview2-final"
}

"buildOptions": {
   "embed": "Views/**/*.cshtml"
}

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
   services.AddMvc();
   //Get a reference to the assembly that contains the view components
   var assembly = typeof(ViewComponentLibrary.ViewComponents.SimpleViewComponent).GetTypeInfo().Assembly;
   //Create an EmbeddedFileProvider for that assembly
   var embeddedFileProvider = new EmbeddedFileProvider(assembly,"ViewComponentLibrary");
   //Add the file provider to the Razor view engine
   services.Configure<RazorViewEngineOptions>(options =>
   {
      options.FileProviders.Add(embeddedFileProvider);
   });

 [ViewComponent(Name = "ViewComponentLibrary.Simple")]
public class SimpleViewComponent : ViewComponent

 @await Component.InvokeAsync("ViewComponentLibrary.Simple", new { number = 5 })

namespace PdfReportSamples.Models
{
    public class Task
    {
        public int Id { set; get; }
        public string Name { set; get; }
        public int PercentCompleted { set; get; }
        public bool IsActive { set; get; }
        public User Assignee { set; get; }
    }
}

using System;

namespace PdfReportSamples.Models
{
    public class User
    {
        public int Id { set; get; }
        public string Name { set; get; }
        public string LastName { set; get; }
        public long Balance { set; get; }
        public DateTime RegisterDate { set; get; }
    }
}

 column.PropertyName<Task>(x => x.Assignee.Name) 

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Drawing;
using PdfReportSamples.Models;
using PdfRpt.Core.Contracts;
using PdfRpt.FluentInterface;

namespace PdfReportSamples.CustomHeaderFooter
{
    public class CustomHeaderFooterPdfReport
    {
        readonly CustomHeader _customHeader = new CustomHeader();
        public IPdfReportData CreatePdfReport()
        {
            return new PdfReport().DocumentPreferences(doc =>
            {
                doc.RunDirection(PdfRunDirection.LeftToRight);
                doc.Orientation(PageOrientation.Portrait);
                doc.PageSize(PdfPageSize.A4);
                doc.DocumentMetadata(new DocumentMetadata { Author = "Vahid", Application = "PdfRpt", Keywords = "Test", Subject = "Test Rpt", Title = "Test" });
            })
            .DefaultFonts(fonts =>
            {
                fonts.Path(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SystemRoot") + "\\fonts\\tahoma.ttf",
                                  Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SystemRoot") + "\\fonts\\verdana.ttf");
            })
            .PagesFooter(footer =>
            {
                footer.CustomFooter(new CustomFooter(footer.PdfFont, PdfRunDirection.LeftToRight));
            })
            .PagesHeader(header =>
            {
                header.CustomHeader(_customHeader);
            })
            .MainTableTemplate(template =>
            {
                template.BasicTemplate(BasicTemplate.SilverTemplate);
            })
            .MainTablePreferences(table =>
            {
                table.ColumnsWidthsType(TableColumnWidthType.Relative);
                table.MultipleColumnsPerPage(new MultipleColumnsPerPage
                {
                    ColumnsGap = 22,
                    ColumnsPerPage = 2,
                    ColumnsWidth = 250,
                    IsRightToLeft = false,
                    TopMargin = 7
                });
            })
            .MainTableDataSource(dataSource =>
            {
                var rows = new List<Task>();
                var rnd = new Random();
                for (int i = 1; i < 210; i++)
                {
                    rows.Add(new Task
                    {
                        Assignee = new User
                        {
                            Id = i,
                            Name = "user-" + i
                        },
                        IsActive = rnd.Next(0, 2) == 1 ? true : false,
                        Name = "task-" + i
                    });
                }
                dataSource.StronglyTypedList(rows);
            })
            .MainTableColumns(columns =>
            {
                columns.AddColumn(column =>
                {
                    column.PropertyName("rowNo");
                    column.IsRowNumber(true);
                    column.CellsHorizontalAlignment(HorizontalAlignment.Center);
                    column.IsVisible(true);
                    column.Order(0);
                    column.Width(1);
                    column.HeaderCell("#");
                });

                columns.AddColumn(column =>
                {
                    column.PropertyName<Task>(x => x.Name);
                    column.CellsHorizontalAlignment(HorizontalAlignment.Center);
                    column.IsVisible(true);
                    column.Order(1);
                    column.Width(3);
                    column.HeaderCell("Task Name");
                });

                columns.AddColumn(column =>
                {
                    column.PropertyName<Task>(x => x.Assignee.Name); // nested property support
                    column.CellsHorizontalAlignment(HorizontalAlignment.Center);
                    column.IsVisible(true);
                    column.Order(2);
                    column.Width(3);
                    column.HeaderCell("Assignee");
                });

                columns.AddColumn(column =>
                {
                    column.PropertyName<Task>(x => x.IsActive);
                    column.CellsHorizontalAlignment(HorizontalAlignment.Center);
                    column.IsVisible(true);
                    column.Order(3);
                    column.Width(2);
                    column.HeaderCell("Active");
                    column.ColumnItemsTemplate(template =>
                    {
                        template.Checkmark(checkmarkFillColor: Color.Green, crossSignFillColor: Color.DarkRed);
                    });
                });
            })
            .MainTableEvents(events =>
            {
                events.DataSourceIsEmpty(message: "There is no data available to display.");
            })
            .Export(export =>
            {
                export.ToExcel();
            })
            .Generate(data => data.AsPdfFile(AppPath.ApplicationPath + "\\Pdf\\CustomHeaderFooterPdfReportSample.pdf"));
        }
    }
}

using System.Collections.Generic;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using PdfRpt.Core.Contracts;
using PdfRpt.Core.Helper;

namespace PdfReportSamples.CustomHeaderFooter
{
    public class CustomHeader : IPageHeader
    {
        public PdfPTable RenderingGroupHeader(Document pdfDoc, PdfWriter pdfWriter, IList<CellData> rowdata, IList<SummaryCellData> summaryData)
        {
            return null;
        }

        Image _image;
        public PdfPTable RenderingReportHeader(Document pdfDoc, PdfWriter pdfWriter, IList<SummaryCellData> summaryData)
        {
            if (_image == null) //cache is empty
            {
                var templatePath = AppPath.ApplicationPath + "\\data\\PdfHeaderTemplate.pdf";
                _image = PdfImageHelper.GetITextSharpImageFromPdfTemplate(pdfWriter, templatePath);
            }

            var table = new PdfPTable(1);
            var cell = new PdfPCell(_image, true) { Border = 0 };
            table.AddCell(cell);
            return table;
        }
    }
}

using System.Collections.Generic;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using PdfRpt.Core.Contracts;

namespace PdfReportSamples.CustomHeaderFooter
{
    public class CustomFooter : IPageFooter
    {
        PdfContentByte _pdfContentByte;
        readonly IPdfFont _pdfRptFont;
        readonly Font _font;
        readonly PdfRunDirection _direction;
        PdfTemplate _template;

        public CustomFooter(IPdfFont pdfRptFont, PdfRunDirection direction)
        {
            _direction = direction;
            _pdfRptFont = pdfRptFont;
            _font = _pdfRptFont.Fonts[0];
        }

        public void ClosingDocument(PdfWriter writer, Document document, IList<SummaryCellData> columnCellsSummaryData)
        {
            _template.BeginText();
            _template.SetFontAndSize(_pdfRptFont.Fonts[0].BaseFont, 8);
            _template.SetTextMatrix(0, 0);
            _template.ShowText((writer.PageNumber - 1).ToString());
            _template.EndText();
        }

        public void PageFinished(PdfWriter writer, Document document, IList<SummaryCellData> columnCellsSummaryData)
        {
            var pageSize = document.PageSize;
            var text = "Page " + writer.PageNumber + " / ";
            var textLen = _font.BaseFont.GetWidthPoint(text, _font.Size);
            var center = (pageSize.Left + pageSize.Right) / 2;
            var align = _direction == PdfRunDirection.RightToLeft ? Element.ALIGN_RIGHT : Element.ALIGN_LEFT;

            ColumnText.ShowTextAligned(
                        canvas: _pdfContentByte,
                        alignment: align,
                        phrase: new Phrase(text, _font),
                        x: center,
                        y: pageSize.GetBottom(25),
                        rotation: 0,
                        runDirection: (int)_direction,
                        arabicOptions: 0);

            var x = _direction == PdfRunDirection.RightToLeft ? center - textLen : center + textLen;
            _pdfContentByte.AddTemplate(_template, x, pageSize.GetBottom(25));
        }

        public void DocumentOpened(PdfWriter writer, IList<SummaryCellData> columnCellsSummaryData)
        {
            _pdfContentByte = writer.DirectContent;
            _template = _pdfContentByte.CreateTemplate(50, 50);
        }
    }
}

using System.Collections.Generic;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;

namespace PdfRpt.Core.Contracts
{
    public interface IPageHeader
    {
        PdfPTable RenderingGroupHeader(Document pdfDoc, PdfWriter pdfWriter, IList<CellData> newGroupInfo, IList<SummaryCellData> summaryData);

        PdfPTable RenderingReportHeader(Document pdfDoc, PdfWriter pdfWriter, IList<SummaryCellData> summaryData);
    }
}

using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace PdfRpt.Core.Contracts
{
    public interface IPageFooter
    {
        void DocumentOpened(PdfWriter writer, IList<SummaryCellData> columnCellsSummaryData);

        void PageFinished(PdfWriter writer, Document document, IList<SummaryCellData> columnCellsSummaryData);

        void ClosingDocument(PdfWriter writer, Document document, IList<SummaryCellData> columnCellsSummaryData);
    }
}

readonly CustomHeader _customHeader = new CustomHeader();
//...
.PagesFooter(footer =>
{
   footer.CustomFooter(new CustomFooter(footer.PdfFont, PdfRunDirection.LeftToRight));
})
.PagesHeader(header =>
{
  header.CustomHeader(_customHeader);
})

 public string EntityClassOpening(EntityType entity)
    {
        return string.Format(
            CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
            "{0} {1}partial class {2}{3}",
            Accessibility.ForType(entity),
            _code.SpaceAfter(_code.AbstractOption(entity)),
            _code.Escape(entity),
            _code.StringBefore(" : ", _typeMapper.GetTypeName(entity.BaseType)));
    }

    public string EntityClassOpening(EntityType entity)
    {
        return string.Format(
            CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
"[DataContract]" + Environment.NewLine + 
            "{0} {1}partial class {2}{3}",
            Accessibility.ForType(entity),
            _code.SpaceAfter(_code.AbstractOption(entity)),
            _code.Escape(entity),
            _code.StringBefore(" : ", _typeMapper.GetTypeName(entity.BaseType)));
    }

        protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder builder)
        {
            base.OnModelCreating(builder);

            builder.Entity<ApplicationUser>().ToTable("Users");
            builder.Entity<CustomRole>().ToTable("Roles");
            builder.Entity<CustomUserClaim>().ToTable("UserClaims");
            builder.Entity<CustomUserRole>().ToTable("UserRoles");
            builder.Entity<CustomUserLogin>().ToTable("UserLogins");
        }

public static int Add(in int number1, in int number2)
{
   number1 = 5; // Cannot assign to variable 'in int' because it is a readonly variable
   return number1 + number2;
}

<ItemGroup>
     <PackageReference Include="BenchmarkDotNet" Version="0.10.12" />
</ItemGroup>

using BenchmarkDotNet.Attributes;

namespace CS72Tests
{
    public struct Input
    {
        public decimal Number1;
        public decimal Number2;
    }

    [MemoryDiagnoser]
    public class InBenchmarking
    {
        const int loops = 50000000;
        Input inputInstance = new Input();

        [Benchmark(Baseline = true)]
        public decimal RunNormalLoop_Pass_By_Value()
        {
            decimal result = 0M;
            for (int i = 0; i < loops; i++)
            {
                result = Run(inputInstance);
            }
            return result;
        }

        [Benchmark]
        public decimal RunInLoop_Pass_By_Reference()
        {
            decimal result = 0M;
            for (int i = 0; i < loops; i++)
            {
                result = RunIn(in inputInstance);
            }
            return result;
        }

        public decimal Run(Input input)
        {
            return input.Number1;
        }

        public decimal RunIn(in Input input)
        {
            return input.Number1;
        }
    }
}

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var summary = BenchmarkRunner.Run<InBenchmarking>();

                      Method |      Mean |    Error |   StdDev | Scaled | Allocated |
---------------------------- |----------:|---------:|---------:|-------:|----------:|
 RunNormalLoop_Pass_By_Value | 280.04 ms | 2.219 ms | 1.733 ms |   1.00 |       0 B |
 RunInLoop_Pass_By_Reference |  91.75 ms | 1.733 ms | 1.780 ms |   0.33 |       0 B |

    public static class Factorial
    {
        public static int Calculate(in this int num)
        {
            int result = 1;
            for (int i = num; i > 1; i--)
                result *= i;

            return result;
        }
    }

int num = 3;
Console.WriteLine($"(in num) -> {Factorial.Calculate(in num)}");
Console.WriteLine($"(num) -> {Factorial.Calculate(num)}");
Console.WriteLine($"num. -> {num.Calculate()}");

(in num) -> 6
(num) -> 6
num. -> 6

    public class CX
    {
        public void A(Input a)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("int a");
        }

        public void A(in Input a)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("in int a");
        }
    }

    public class Y
    {
        public void Test()
        {
            var inputInstance = new Input();
            var cx = new CX();
            cx.A(inputInstance); // The call is ambiguous between the following methods or properties: 'CX.A(Input)' and 'CX.A(in Input)'
        }
    }

public IEnumerable<int> B(in int a) // Iterators cannot have ref or out parameters
{
   Console.WriteLine("in int a");
   yield return 1;
}

public async Task C(in int a) // Async methods cannot have ref or out parameters
{
   await Task.Delay(1000);
}

using System;

namespace CS72Tests
{
    struct MyStruct
    {
        public int MyValue { get; set; }

        public void UpdateMyValue(int value)
        {
            MyValue = value;
        }
    }

    public static class TestInStructs
    {
        public static void Run()
        {
            var myStruct = new MyStruct();
            myStruct.UpdateMyValue(1);

            UpdateMyValue(myStruct);

            Console.WriteLine(myStruct.MyValue);
        }

        static void UpdateMyValue(in MyStruct myStruct)
        {
            myStruct.UpdateMyValue(5);
        }
    }
}

static void UpdateMyValue(in MyStruct myStruct)
{
   myStruct.MyValue = 5; // Cannot assign to a member of variable 'in MyStruct' because it is a readonly variable
   myStruct.UpdateMyValue(5);
}

namespace BlazorWasm.WebApi
{
    public class Startup
    {
        //...

        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddAutoMapper(typeof(MappingProfile).Assembly);

            services.AddScoped<IHotelRoomService, HotelRoomService>();
            services.AddScoped<IAmenityService, AmenityService>();
            services.AddScoped<IHotelRoomImageService, HotelRoomImageService>();

            var connectionString = Configuration.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection");
            services.AddDbContext<ApplicationDbContext>(options => options.UseSqlServer(connectionString));

            services.AddIdentity<IdentityUser, IdentityRole>()
                .AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>()
                .AddDefaultTokenProviders();

            //...

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>net5.0</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="AutoMapper.Extensions.Microsoft.DependencyInjection" Version="8.1.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Swashbuckle.AspNetCore" Version="5.6.3" />
  </ItemGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <ProjectReference Include="..\..\BlazorServer\BlazorServer.DataAccess\BlazorServer.DataAccess.csproj" />
    <ProjectReference Include="..\..\BlazorServer\BlazorServer.Services\BlazorServer.Services.csproj" />
    <ProjectReference Include="..\..\BlazorServer\BlazorServer.Models.Mappings\BlazorServer.Models.Mappings.csproj" />
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>

{
  "ConnectionStrings": {
    "DefaultConnection": "Server=(localdb)\\mssqllocaldb;Database=HotelManagement;Trusted_Connection=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=true"
  }
}

using BlazorServer.Models;
using BlazorServer.Services;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace BlazorWasm.WebApi.Controllers
{
    [Route("api/[controller]")]
    public class HotelRoomController : ControllerBase
    {
        private readonly IHotelRoomService _hotelRoomService;

        public HotelRoomController(IHotelRoomService hotelRoomService)
        {
            _hotelRoomService = hotelRoomService;
        }

        [HttpGet]
        public IAsyncEnumerable<HotelRoomDTO> GetHotelRooms()
        {
            return _hotelRoomService.GetAllHotelRoomsAsync();
        }

        [HttpGet("{roomId}")]
        public async Task<IActionResult> GetHotelRoom(int? roomId)
        {
            if (roomId == null)
            {
                return BadRequest(new ErrorModel
                {
                    Title = "",
                    ErrorMessage = "Invalid Room Id",
                    StatusCode = StatusCodes.Status400BadRequest
                });
            }

            var roomDetails = await _hotelRoomService.GetHotelRoomAsync(roomId.Value);
            if (roomDetails == null)
            {
                return BadRequest(new ErrorModel
                {
                    Title = "",
                    ErrorMessage = "Invalid Room Id",
                    StatusCode = StatusCodes.Status404NotFound
                });
            }

            return Ok(roomDetails);
        }
    }
}

namespace BlazorServer.Models
{
    public class ErrorModel
    {
        public string Title { get; set; }

        public int StatusCode { get; set; }

        public string ErrorMessage { get; set; }
    }
}

namespace BlazorWasm.WebApi
{
    public class Startup
    {
        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
         // ... 

            services.AddCors(o => o.AddPolicy("HotelManagement", builder =>
            {
                builder.AllowAnyOrigin().AllowAnyMethod().AllowAnyHeader();
            }));

            services.AddControllers()
                    .AddJsonOptions(options =>
                    {
                        options.JsonSerializerOptions.PropertyNamingPolicy = null;
                        // To avoid `JsonSerializationException: Self referencing loop detected error`
                        options.JsonSerializerOptions.ReferenceHandler = ReferenceHandler.Preserve;
                    });
         // ... 
        }

        public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
        {
            // ... 

            app.UseCors("HotelManagement");
            app.UseRouting();

            app.UseAuthentication();
            // ...
        }
    }
}

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