Nice C# Helper Class for working with POST or GET web requests

You need the following namespaces:

System
System.Collections.Generic
System.IO
System.Linq
System.Net
System.Text

The code is here, shared as via LinqPad's instant share feature.

Nice task management tool

I've been using Google Tasks for a long time but needed something better and am glad I stumbled across Trello. I wanted to use a kanban board style list and collaborate with other people.  Thanks Trello for a great product.

Examine sp_who2 with LinqPad

This script gets for you just the list of blockers and the list of blockees separately

Prerequisite: Make sure you check Include System Views and SPs in the SQL connection dialog.

var v= sys.sp_who2().Tables[0].AsEnumerable();//.Dump("SP_WHO2");

var blockers = v
 .Where(x=>x.Field("BlkBy") != "  .")
 .Select (x => x.Field("BlkBy")).Distinct();//.Dump("Blockers");  
  
var blockerDetails = v
 .Where (x =>blockers.Contains(x.Field("SPID")) ).Dump("Blockers");
 
var blockees = v.Where(x=> x.Field("BlkBy") != "  .").Dump("Blockees");

Getting started with MassTransit - a .net message queueing system

The instruction on the mass transit project gets you started with how to setup mass transit within a single application publishing messages to itself. But this example shows you how to do messaging between applications.

http://www.codewrecks.com/blog/index.php/2012/08/03/quick-start-on-mass-transit-and-msmq-on-windows/

Creating classes and extension methods in LINQPAD

A very good thing to know is that you can actually define your own classes in LinqPad. The trick to it is that you must put a closing bracket to the linqpad code and start your class, but omit the last bracket.

This post explains why.