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Category: pet projects

  • JavaScriptExtensionsAspire–part 2–execution

    Now about the execution of https://www.nuget.org/packages/JavaScriptExtensionsAspire Finding and parsing the package json is pretty easy – this is the code More interessant is to find the name of npm executable Also I want to add the environment variables from the original javascript app Otherwise, pretty obvious stuff of starting the npm process info . NuGet…

  • JavaScriptExtensionsAspire–part 1

    TL;DR: Add package.json commands to ASPIRE Simplifying JavaScript Workflows in .NET with JavaScriptExtensionsAspire As a developer working with .NET and JavaScript, I often find myself juggling between managing JavaScript resources and integrating package.json commands into my applications. It can be tedious and time-consuming. That’s why I’m excited to share my experience with JavaScriptExtensionsAspire, a .NET…

  • Aspire Resource for Aspire–part 4–programatic access

    Aspire 13 has a MCP server integrated https://aspire.dev/dashboard/mcp-server/ . But what about an OPENAPI / swagger ? Also and a graph to show the  resources – https://aspire.dev/dashboard/explore/#resources-page , see graph image. But how about Mermaid syntax display of resources ? So I implemented in https://www.nuget.org/packages/AspireExtensionsResource , version >= 13 . This is how it looks…

  • DocumentorDatabaseExtensionsAspire–part 3–usage

    The usage is pretty simple : add  the package https://www.nuget.org/Packages/DocumentorDatabaseExtensionsAspire to the Aspire host project.  Add an SqlServer database and write //accepts also relative paths var res = db.AddDocumentationOnFolder(@”D:\documentation”); That will be all ! And here it the Aspire Dashboard with documentation for Pubs database And the diagram Here you will find a video about…

  • DocumentorDatabaseExtensionsAspire–part 2–implementation

    The Aspire project as already a database resource  – and a executing one ( sqlpad or dbgate or adminer ) So the answer to the several problems to be solved: 1. How to obtain the tables definition  ? We can obtain the definition by handling ourselves the tables- but why do not profit from the…

  • DocumentorDatabaseExtensionsAspire–part 1–idea

    The Aspire project as already a database resource  – and a executing one ( sqlpad or dbgate or adminer ) What if we can generate documentation for the database  ? There are several problems to be solved: 1. How to obtain the tables definition  ? 2. How to generate documents for the site ? 3.…

  • SqlExtensionsAspire–drop create database

    Another improvement for https://www.nuget.org/account/Packages/SqlExtensionsAspire : Drop Database , Create the database, run init scripts . Demo with Video : https://ignatandrei.github.io/aspireExtensions/images/SqlServerExtensions/video-Recreate_Database_With_Scripts-20251102225854.mp4 The code is pretty simple: executing drop create and initialization

  • Conclusions: Translating fp-filters from TypeScript to C# with AI Assistance

    1. AI Accelerates Porting, but Human Oversight Is Essential AI tools (GPT-4, GPT-5, Claude, Copilot, CodeRabbit) greatly speed up translation and refactoring, but human review is crucial for correctness, especially for edge cases and build issues. 2. Iterative Improvements Work Best Incremental changes—such as improving code coverage, refactoring namespaces, and enhancing documentation—yield better results than…

  • Deploy to nuget

    GPT 4.1 was incredibly usefull. But having the 2 AI reviewers ( Copilot and Code Rabbit )were best : improving the .csproj improving the github action to publish with the name of the build and many others See https://github.com/ignatandrei/Filters/pull/11 Discussion Human Please add readme and other things to deploy to nuget the Filters csproj from…

  • Cosmetic fixes

    Before deploy to Nuget I think how the programmer will use it . And the problem is the generated code – it repeats the name of the class twice .So AI will do some cosmetic fixes : Remove from the namespace the name of the class namespace FpFilters.NumberFilters { public static class NumberFilters modified to…