Posts from February 2016

Posts from February 2016 (2)

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  Published on

  2016-02-14 9:02 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

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  asp-netcdisplaytemplatemvcmvc5

  Duplicate object values in ASP.NET MVC Display Templates? Easy fix!

  Are you getting duplicate object values (or whatever those Objects output in .ToString())? Eh, so was I, after I edited the display template for String. Found a fix, though. Description Okay - I just ran into one of my more stupid mistakes since.. Well, since forever. I had made some quick and simple edits in String.cshtml display template (among quite a few other edits before building again and seeing what happened), as I added support for Enum values there.

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  Published on

  2016-02-07 9:36 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  asp-netazurecode-firstcefef6mvcmvc5

  Fixing "An error occurred while updating the entries" while running code-first migrations in MVC 5 app

  This post describes an issue with EF's code-first migrations, when mapping between DB's DateTime (datetime2) and C#'s DateTime simply fails, and results in the Update-Database cmdlet failing, too. It is more or less a prime example of a situation, where the error itself tells very little about the actual issue, and since debugging code-first migrations is kind of difficult ( see the best tips for that here! ), it's cumbersome to investigate.

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