TIL capitalising letters with regex
Fixing a code analysis auto-fix which made acronyms less clear
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Today I Learnt...
Short articles containing specific things that I learnt one day.
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TIL how to find latitude and longitude of a geolocation stored in SQL Server
I was recently working with an EF Core entity which contained a C# Point property representing a geolocation. This was stored in a single column in a SQL Server database. (I think this uses NetTopolog
TIL about typescript typing `as const`
I knew that typescript supports a type being a specific string, rather than the string type, so (for example) a function parameter can only receive the string “foo” and not a different string. Today I learnt that this can be done by using the as cons...
TIL C# property overrides are separate for getters and setters
I recently hit an interesting gotcha with some code in a C# codebase i was working with. It baffled me because I didn’t understand how this could compile. MyClass.Foo has a getter but no setter, yet an instantiated MyClass can have the Foo property s...
TIL the format for pasting environment variables into a Rider run configuration
Summary I was editing a run configuration in Rider and needed to add several environment variables to it. There’s a button in the dialogue to paste them in, but no guidance regarding the format of the data, and no feedback if you paste the wrong form...
TIL Rider can show a diff of a directory between two branches
Today I learnt that you can right–click on any project or directory within the Solution panel, and under the Git menu there is the option to Compare with Branch or Tag (or a separate option to Compare with Revision). This allows you to easily find al...
