Recently, I worked on converting a .Net API from a 3rd party authentication mechanism to internal and we chose to use the Identity framework. By default, Identity uses a string as the primary key for the AspNetUsers table and that was an issue because our current users table used a long (and there were a lot of foreign key references to it).
For the second Codemash pre-compiler day I spent the full day working on the Humanitarian Toolbox project @htbox) with Bill Wagner (@billwagner) and Tony Surma (@tonysurma) and 5 other developers.
The Humanitarian Toolbox is an open source non-profit organization, that creates software for disaster response teams. To kick things off, Tony gave us an overview of the projects and we pulled the code from GitHub.
Since .Net 4.5, the async/await pattern has been a great tool to simplify asynchronous calls. However, in WPF I frequently need to make async calls from a non-async function or event. Often, this happens because I’m overriding a virtual function in an inherited class of a framework that I’m using and that function is synchronous. To help with this, I created an async helper class:
