My bookmarks and blogposts regarding Software Development in .NET, C#, Angular, JavaScript, CSS, Html
The Renderer2 class is an abstraction provided by Angular in the form of a service that allows to manipulate elements of your app without having to touch the DOM directly. This is the recommended approach because it then makes it easier to develop apps that can be rendered in environments that don’t have DOM access, like on the server, in a web worker or on native mobile.
Source: Using Renderer2 in Angular
Improved UX with Ghost Elements + Angular Animations by Thomas Burleson
…Both the VB and C# DynamicQuery samples include a source implementation of a helper library that allows you to express LINQ queries using extension methods that take string arguments instead of type-safe language operators. You can copy/paste either the C# or VB implementations of the DynamicQuery library into your own projects and then use it where appropriate to more dynamically construct LINQ queries based on end-user input.
weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/dynamic-linq-part-1-using-the-linq-dynamic-query-library
Add support for mouse navigation buttons (back and forward).
This is an extremely simple and lightweight extension that adds support for using the back/forward buttons on the mouse for navigating back/forward in code. Pressing these buttons simply executes the Navigate Backward (default Ctrl+-) or Navigate Forward (default Ctrl+Shift+-) as appropriate.
Strip HTML using HtmlAgilityPack
public static string StripHtml(this string value)
{
HtmlDocument htmlDoc = new HtmlDocument();
htmlDoc.LoadHtml(value);
if (htmlDoc == null)
return value;
return htmlDoc.DocumentNode.InnerText;
}
Source: Strip HTML using HtmlAgilityPack
Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program ‘Visio,’ though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams.
wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia
Another free alternative to Visio is Openoffice draw. Read more here: https://chase-seibert.github.io/blog/2009/03/26/openoffice-draw-vs-visio.html#