Copying data between classes with Automapper

Sometimes you have similar classes in your project and you want to copy data from one instance of a class to another. In my old days I used to do that myself going field by field. That was until someone told me about Automapper.

Custom authentication for WCF REST over Https

I recently had to build a WCF REST service over HTTPS. Once built and functioning we decided to include  some sort of authentication mechanism, so that the service could only be used by authorized members and not anyone on the internet, which makes perfect sense.

First post

The goal of the blog is to share programming tricks and tools that I run into in my daily life as a developer. I will try not to talk about things you can easily find elsewhere, therefore the activity will be slow on the blog.

Looking back and reflecting about my life as a software developer, it would have really been 100 times tougher if colleagues of the profession out there hadn't shared all the knowledge they have. I think it is time for me to modestly give some of that back and help others in their journeys.