A short article on using IIS URL rewriting to force insecure HTTP requests to HTTPS when behind a load balancer that is configured to terminate the secure connection, including support for excluding LetsEncrypt challenge requests.
Blog Articles and information on C# and .NET development topics
A short article on installing the optional URL Rewrite module into Internet Information services.
How to store data sent to an Azure Function in blob storage.
Recently I was looking for a way of display hierarchical information in a more compact form than the previous horizontal/vertical trees I was using. One of the concepts I looked into during this was the idea of arranging children radially around a central node. This article describes an approach for doing this using circular nodes.
A short article on using the ImageAnimator class to allow animated GIF's to be properly painted using System.Drawing and C#.
A review of the book "The C# Helper Top 100" by Rod Stephens
A short article which describes how to get a window rectangle without including offsets for drop shadows
I was recently updating some documentation and wanted to programmatically capture some screenshots of the application in different states. This article describes how you can easily capture screenshots in your own applications using the BitBlt Win32 API call.
Markdig is an extensible Markdown processor built with performance in mind. This article details how to create a simple Markdig extension to extend the parsing functionality to create inline links for MantisBT issue numbers (or GitHub or similar).
I've released a new open source project named MantisSharp, a simple .NET client for working with the recently introduced REST API for Mantis Bug Tracker.