The latest articles on DEV Community by David Amour (@thedaveamour). https://dev.to/thedaveamour https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F426663%2Fc83eef0a-d9ee-4ded-a761-9ccfa6f3ea78.jpg https://dev.to/thedaveamour en David Amour Wed, 28 Oct 2020 07:58:07 +0000 https://dev.to/thedaveamour/rest-for-non-crud-4emo https://dev.to/thedaveamour/rest-for-non-crud-4emo <p>If I have a React site with a .net REST backend, is t acceptable practice to use REST for non CRUD operations such as sending an email?</p> David Amour Thu, 03 Sep 2020 04:01:44 +0000 https://dev.to/thedaveamour/learning-angular-3p63 https://dev.to/thedaveamour/learning-angular-3p63 <p>I'm trying to learn Angular. Can anyone help me with that? In return maybe I can help you with something I am experienced with which you want to learn?</p> David Amour Tue, 01 Sep 2020 05:12:11 +0000 https://dev.to/thedaveamour/tdd-and-exceptions-34om https://dev.to/thedaveamour/tdd-and-exceptions-34om <p>Question - When doing TDD with C# and testing that an exception is thrown under some scenario, should you also test that the exception message is as expected?</p> David Amour Fri, 21 Aug 2020 03:06:17 +0000 https://dev.to/thedaveamour/t4mvc-net-core-509p https://dev.to/thedaveamour/t4mvc-net-core-509p <p>Anyone managed to get T4MVC or something equivalent working in .Net Core MVC?</p> David Amour Sat, 15 Aug 2020 07:45:28 +0000 https://dev.to/thedaveamour/job-availability-477 https://dev.to/thedaveamour/job-availability-477 <p>My contract definitely ends in 7 weeks. With the current climate I am looking to secure a new role as soon as practical. Feel free to get in touch if you have any opportunities you think might be a good fit for me.</p> <p>I am a full stack developer with 21 years development experience and many years experience as an IT trainer before that. My core skills are Asp.net MVC, WebForms, Classic ASP, C#, Html, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, WebApi, SQL Server, Entity Framework, OOP, SOLID TDD etc. </p> <p>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-amour-b51aaa1">https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-amour-b51aaa1</a></p> <p>CV: <a href="https://www.paxium.co.uk/content/cvs/daveamourcv.doc">https://www.paxium.co.uk/content/cvs/daveamourcv.doc</a></p> <p>Email: <a href="mailto:dave@paxium.co.uk">dave@paxium.co.uk</a></p> David Amour Sun, 02 Aug 2020 04:41:28 +0000 https://dev.to/thedaveamour/javascript-classes-5f7l https://dev.to/thedaveamour/javascript-classes-5f7l <p>Anyone using classes in JavaScript as in <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Classes">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Classes</a> ?</p> <p>Looks really nice but doesn't seem to have the browser support I need :(</p> <p>Anyone have any browser support workarounds?</p> <p>NB: Scroll to the end of the article to see browser support</p> David Amour Wed, 08 Jul 2020 03:45:51 +0000 https://dev.to/thedaveamour/tired-of-entity-framework-syncing-issues-with-multiple-developers-creating-migrations-10ie https://dev.to/thedaveamour/tired-of-entity-framework-syncing-issues-with-multiple-developers-creating-migrations-10ie <p>We found this article the other day which addresses how to resolve issues when Entity Framework has syncing issues with multiple developers creating migrations at the same time. Its so good and useful it would be a shame not to share.</p> <p>Do read it all and do go for the re scaffold option rather than the crude blank migration option.</p> <p><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/ef6/modeling/code-first/migrations/teams">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/ef6/modeling/code-first/migrations/teams</a></p>