Nick Proud, Author at Automation Mission

Hashing and Salting Passwords in C#

September 17, 2020 By Nick Proud

UPDATE: This example previously used a SHA256 algorithm to hash and Math.Random to generate a salt, it has been correctly pointed out that there are […]

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C#

String and string in C#. What’s the Difference?

September 9, 2020 By Nick Proud

It can be a little confusing if you are very new to the language. Why do we have a keyword in lower case and the […]

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.NET C# How-To

The Power of Extension Methods

September 8, 2020 By Nick Proud

Changing code. It’s a minefield. If you’re attempting to abide by the laws of the Open Closed Principle, we want to avoid changing previously written […]

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.NET Blazor C# How-To

Hot Reload in Server-Side Blazor

July 23, 2020 By Nick Proud

At the time of writing this post, without third-party plug-ins, server-side Blazor doesn’t have native support for hot-reload. I was kind of spoiled with this […]

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.NET C# How-To

Restricting Access To MVC Views

July 14, 2020 By Nick Proud

There are so many different mechanisms for authentication and for claims verification in .NET for MVC applications with ASP.NET Identity, JSON Web Tokens, and Azure […]

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Data How-To RPA

‘SQLizing’ Excel Spreadsheets with ThinkAutomation.

June 26, 2020 By Nick Proud

I Have the Power! (To Query) In a business-administrative context, we often refer to spreadsheets as databases. It could be a database of customers or […]

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Career Industry Soft Skills

Writing code for an audience

June 18, 2020 By Nick Proud

It seems like the most unnatural thing for many programmers; this notion of ‘live coding.’ The very idea that we would choose to opt-in to […]

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AI

How to extract text inside an image without writing any code.

March 2, 2020 By Nick Proud

In the modern-day battle to transfer our information from paper to the digital realm, OCR (Optical Character Recognition) has become essential to the smooth running […]

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.NET C# How-To

Clean up your .NET with the Dispose Pattern

February 15, 2020 By Nick Proud

In the managed-code world of .NET, we can be sometimes spoiled by the seamless intervention of Garbage Collection which quite happily waits until our objects […]

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.NET C# Industry Product UX

Tracking Customer Usage in Your Software – Getting Started

February 7, 2020 By Nick Proud

You’re thinking of changing a feature or adding a new one to your app, but you don’t know how important it is to implement it. […]

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