Posts from 2025

• 2025-02-23 Object Level Authorization in ASP.NET

  Broken Object Level Authorization is a huge security problem. Let’s explore the options available to us in an ASP.NET application

• 2025-02-16 Scripting SQL Server Users

  Do you know what permissions a user has in SQL Server? Generating scripts to create users and grant permissions can save you a lot of trial and error.

• 2025-02-09 It Sucks to be Wrong

  I often advocate (some would say preach) that progress should be made in small batches. Let’s find some data to back up that claim.

• 2025-02-03 Code Change Guidelines

  Here are the guidelines I try to follow when I make changes to a code base.

• 2025-01-26 Sharing PowerShell Profiles

  I use PowerShell on several computers. I need a means to share the profile I prefer on all these computers. I found a simple way using GitHub.

• 2025-01-20 Creating a Custom .NET CLI Tool

  Installing tools on Windows can sometimes be challenging. The .NET CLI has a great way to distribute tools to your team.

• 2025-01-12 Using Central Package Management with .NET

  It is often the case that a solution with a large number of projects share a lot of the same NuGet packages. Central Package Management is a means to help keep the package versions synchronized across the projects.

• 2025-01-11 Helpful Git Commands

  I recently was trying to figure out which files I had modified with my feature branch in git. It wasn’t as easy as I thought. I decided to document some of the git commands I frequently use (so I don’t have to keep searching fo them again and again)

• 2025-01-04 Generating Code Coverage Reports .NET

  Code coverage can be a highly debatable topic, but I find it very helpful in knowing which classes are under represented in my suite of unit tests. I’ve relied on the UI versions of test runners to provide this data. Let’s explore what we can do with the command line.