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GitHub and Azure Pipelines
A few weeks ago Microsoft announced that Visual Studio Team Services was being replaced/rebranded by a collection of services under the brand Azure DevOps. One of the services that make up Azure DevOps...
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Azure Repos and Azure Pipelines
Last week’s post looked at using GitHub with Azure Pipelines. This week I’m going to take the same project and walk through adding it to Azure Repos and setting a build up using Azure Pipelines. I will...
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Azure Pipelines: Release to Azure App Service
This post is going to use the same Azure DevOps project used in last week’s Azure Repos and Azure Pipelines post which had a build pipeline and add a release pipeline that deploys to an Azure App...
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Azure DevOps Project
After last week’s post on Azure Pipelines: Release to Azure App Service I came across a much easier way to get started using Azure DevOps and Azure App Servies. This post is going to walk through this...
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Visual Studio Missing Scaffolding for ASP.NET Core
This morning I set out to try the Scaffold Identity option that was added as part of the ASP.NET 2.1 release. The docs for this feature is really good so I didn’t think I would have any issue, but I...
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Migration from ASP.NET Core 2.1 to 2.2
On December 4th .NET Core 2.2 including ASP.NET Core 2.2 and Entity Framework 2.2. In this post, I will be taking one of the projects used in the ASP.NET Basics series and converting it from ASP.NET...
View ArticleEntity Framework Core: String Filter Tips
I have been working on an application that is backed by Entity Framework Core using SQLite and I have hit a couple of things that were not super clear to me at first when dealing with string filters....
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Most of the work I have done with SQLite has been on single-user systems, but recently I had to work on a SQLite project that was going to have a handful of concurrent users and a subset of the user...
View ArticleEntity Framework Core: Postgres Concurrency Checks
Last week’s post on SQLite Concurrency Checks used this repo which contains examples of using Entity Framework Core with SQLite and Postgres. This post is going to tackle concurrency checks using...
View ArticleEntity Framework Core: SQL Server Concurrency Checks
Over the last couple of weeks, I have covered concurrency checks in SQLite and Postgres. This week I’m expanding my Entity Framework sample repo to include a SQL Server based example project in order...
View ArticleEntity Framework Core: Client-side Evaluation
My post a few weeks ago on Entity Framework Core: String Filter Tips may have come across as too harsh on client-side evaluation based on what I saw on Reddit. My point wasn’t that you shouldn’t use...
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ASP.NET Core with Dapper
Entity Framework Core has been a the heart of a lot of the post I have done recently. I thought it would be a good change of pace to try out one of the alternatives to Entity Framework Core and give...
View ArticleDapper Using Lists
Last week’s post on ASP.NET Core with Dapper covered the very basics of using Dapper in an ASP.NET Core project. This week we will be changing up the sample code from last week to show using Dapper to...
View ArticleASP.NET Core Configuration Issue with In Process Hosting
Since ASP.NET Core 2.2 was released I have been working on getting all my different applications updated and using in-process hosting. I pretty quickly hit an issue with an application that uses...
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Creating Desktop Applications in .NET Core 3
In my job, I still do a fair amount of work desktop related work which means when I heard that .NET Core 3 is going to bring support for Winforms and WPF I got pretty excited. This post is going to...
View ArticleEntity Framework Core: Show Parameter Values in Logging
Back in October, I did a post on Entity Framework Core: Logging which covers enabling logging for Entity Framework Core. This post is going to expand on that previous post and show you how to get the...
View Article.NET Core: Windows Compatibility Pack
Windows Compatibility Pack A little over a year ago Microsoft released the Windows Compatibility Pack for .NET Core that filled in some gaps in .NET Core APIs if your application doesn’t need to run...
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Trying Out BenchmarkDotNet
In software, there are tons of different ways to accomplish the same thing and one of the metrics we tend to use to determine a course of action is how we feel that one set of code will perform over...
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ASP.NET Core: Identity Scaffolding
I’m sure we have all started a new web project and then needed to add authentication at a later point. This post is going to cover this process use the Identity Scaffolding feature available in Visual...
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ASP.NET Core with Azure B2C Auth
I ran into a previous co-work a while back and they were talking about using Azure’s B2C for authentication on their apps. It sounded like a good solution. This blog post is going to cover getting the...
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