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• Running (Mostly) Minimal .NET 6 APIs in Azure Functions

  Posted on September 3, 2021

  Ok, I have to admit that the provided instructions aren’t bad at all. They actually state (most) of the required steps to do this, with a couple key missing pieces that caused me some trouble and resulted in quite a few trial-and-error attempts. I’m writing this down for my own future reference and hopefully it will save you some time too. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • azure
  • functions
  • serverless

• How to embed videos in GitHub pages without growing the repository size

  Posted on July 23, 2021

  Just a couple months ago GitHub announced video uploads support, which allows you to just drag&drop an .mp4 or .mov onto an issue, pull request or discussion and have it uploaded and hosted by GitHub for free 😍. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • github

• Clean cross-platform process shutdown for dotnet

  Posted on July 22, 2021

  While developing dotnet-evergreen, I needed to figure out a way to cleanly terminate a process in a cross-platform way without resorting to a (somewhat violent) Process.Kill. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • tools

• Running evergreen version of a dotnet tool

  Posted on July 22, 2021

  I’ve been doing quite a few dotnet global tools and had a need for a long-running tool to update itself over time, as updates are pushed to a nuget feed. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • tools

• Authoring IDE-only tests

  Posted on July 5, 2021

  API exploration, whether third party or your own, is a necessary and unavoidable part of regular development. There are many mechanisms available today for doing such exploration in a one-time, throw-away style, but it might be worth considering keeping those explorations around in your code base and even make them easily executable within the IDE afterwards, for further learning or other team members’ benefit. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • testing

• NuGetizer as an alternative to .NET SDK Pack

  Posted on May 9, 2021

  There is a very long standing feature request for NuGet Pack to “allow project reference DLLs to be added to the parent nupkg for pack target like IncludeReferencedProjects in nuget.exe”. This has been going on for years (5 almost as of 2021) and has had over 260 comments so far. Seems like quite the significant pain point for some customers. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • nuget
  • sdk
  • dotnet

• Custom labeling of GitHub sponsors via Actions

  Posted on January 19, 2021

  TLDR: just go check sponsors.yml and sponsors.ps1 😉 [Read More]

  Tags:

  • github

• Minimalistic Serverless Shortlink Service in ~70 LoC

  Posted on January 11, 2021

  How to create and operate a serverless shortlink service on Azure in ~70 lines of code. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • azure

• Shareable Windows Terminal profile for installed Visual Studio Developer PowerShell

  Posted on December 21, 2020

  As I mentioned in another post, Visual Studio now provides a Developer PowerShell command prompt shortcut, which is super useful since it has all the environment variables properly set up to do things like msbuild from command line and have it pick the “right” MSBuild, as well as launching VS by just typing devenv. There is a not-so-minor drawback to these shortcuts though: they hardcode the VS installation ID, so just copy/pasting the command line in your Windows Terminal profile won’t roam nicely across machines: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • code

• How to use .NET module initializers in a concrete real use case

  Posted on September 26, 2020

  Module initializers in C# aren’t a radical new thing for sure, but they were esoteric enough and they required a NuGet package to work, so it seemed like a sort of unofficial/unsupported feature. Not anymore since they are now an officially supported feature with first-class language support in C# 9! [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • msbuild

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