SQL server full-text index and its stop words

Full-text index is different from clustered and non-clustered index in SQL Server.

Clustered and non-clustered index use a B-tree structure.

One table can have only one clustered index. And table data is physically ordered and stored into pages based on the clustered index. Page is the fundamental unit of data storage in SQL Server.

The table data is organized with root node (type: INDEX_PAGE), intermediate nodes (type: INDEX_PAGE) and leaf nodes (type: DATA_PAGE).

Clustered index structure:

How to create unit tests on internal methods and protected methods in .net core?

You’ll inevitablly write unit tests or integration tests for internal methods and protected methods in your .net project.

Here are some techniques you can use.

How to download an Excel file from ASP.NET Web API in Angular application?

I’ve looked for some complete solution to download an EXCEL file from an ASP.NET Web API in Angular 9 application, but I didn’t find it.

As I’ve done it recently, I would like to share my implementation with you if it helps.

Which library to generate Excel in C#? OpenXmlSdk or ClosedXml?

I need to generate Excel files in my recent work. The file is not huge and it’s around 5000 lines.

I have tried two open source libraries to generate them.

They are:

• OpenXmlSdk
• ClosedXml

How to deploy react app to GitHub pages

Github-pages is very practical to host static websites, not only Jekyll based websites, but also Angular, React based static websites etc.

You don’t need to purchase a space for the websites hosting. It’s totally free! All you need is just a GitHub account. :)

How to transform web config or app config by environment in visual studio

In software development, there are at least several environments to manage: development (DEV), staging (STAG or PRE), and production (PRD).

There will be integration (INT), user acceptance testing (UAT) in a more complete environment configuration.

It could be frustrating when managing all those environments because a small error in the deployment could generate an incident, or disaster!

Fortunately there is a cool tool to facilitate the environment management and software deployment in visual studio.

How to change ASP NET MVC Web API output to camelCase

Unlike ASP.NET CORE Web API, ASP.NET MVC Web API’s will not serialize the output in camelCase.

camelCase example:

firstName
lastName

PascalCase example:

FirstName
LastName

How to resolve CORS AllowAnyOrigin and AllowCredentials conflict in ASPNET CORE Web API

When you implement an ASP.NET CORE Web API, you may want the API to support all clients from anywhere and enable credentials at the same time.

You need to make the CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing) configuration in your Web API.

REST API Design - What is OpenAPI-compliant API?

The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) was created in order to standardize the API design.The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) was originally based on the Swagger Specification, donated by SmartBear Software.

The OpenAPI is programming language agnostic.

You can see the OpenAPI Specification change history here

REST API Design - Richardson Maturity Model

Leonard Richardson has defined a Model to determine an REST API maturity, called Richardson Maturity Model.

There are 4 levels of maturity.