Bertrand Le Roy

Senior Software Engineer, Xamarin

Bertrand has been programming since he was ten. He was an early contributor to ASP.NET, co-founded the Orchard CMS project, and he was also on the team that built .NET Core. He currently works on the Xamarin team on improving the Forms developer experience in Visual Studio and Visual Studio for mac.

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The week in .NET – On .NET on Cecil – NAudio – SpeechCentral – Hand of Fate

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET: On .NET on Orchard 2 – Mocking on Core – StoryTeller – Armello. On .NET Last week, JB Evain was on the show: This week, we'll speak with Immo Landwerth from the .NET team about NetStandard 2.0. The show begins at 10AM Pacific Time on Channel 9. We'll take questions on Gitter, on the ...

Storing and using secrets in Azure

Most applications need access to secret information in order to function: it could be an API key, database credentials, or something else. In this post, we'll create a simple service that will compare the temperatures in Seattle and Paris using the OpenWeatherMap API, for which we'll need a secret API key. I'll walk you through the usage of ...

The week in .NET: On .NET on Orchard 2 – Mocking on Core – StoryTeller – Armello

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET: On .NET with Steeltoe – C# Functional Extensions – Firewatch. On .NET Last week, Sébastien Ros was on the show to talk about Orchard 2: This week, we'll speak with JB Evain about his work on the Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Unity, and maybe also Cecil. The show begins at 12PM Pacific ...

The week in .NET: On .NET with Steeltoe – C# Functional Extensions – Firewatch

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET: .NET Core 1.0.1 – On .NET with Peachpie – Avalonia – Folk Tale. On .NET Last week, we had David Morhovich and Zach Brown on the show to talk about Steeltoe: This week, we'll speak with Sébastien Ros about Orchard 2, the new version of the .NET CMS that can run on .NET Core. The show ...

The week in .NET: .NET Core 1.0.1 – On .NET with Peachpie – Avalonia – Folk Tale

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 9/7/2016. .NET Core 1.0.1 shipped! We shipped .NET Core 1.0.1 yesterday. Check out the announcement! On .NET Last week, we spoke with Benjamin Fistein and Jakub Míšek about Peachpie, a PHP compiler for .NET. We've had Ben and Jakub on the show before, and they came back to show us some ...

The week in .NET – 9/7/2016

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 8/30/2016. On .NET Last week, Ayende Rahien was on the show to talk about RavenDB and .NET: This week, we'll speak with Benjamin Fistein and Jakub Míšek from Peachpie to get an update on their PHP compiler for .NET, which now works on .NET Core and Docker, and can consumer NuGet ...

The week in .NET – 8/30/2016

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 8/23/2016. On .NET Last week, Phillip Carter was on the show and gave some pretty neat intro-level F# demos. This week, we'll talk to Ayende Rahien from Hibernating Rhinos, about RavenDB and .NET. The show begins at 11AM Pacific Time on Channel 9. We'll take questions on Gitter, on the ...

The week in .NET – 8/23/2016

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 8/16/2016. On .NET Last week, we moved into our new studios with Channel 9, where JB Evain joined me to interview Lucas Meijer from Unity. We had our fair share of technical hiccups, but Lucas gave some great demos: This week, we'll bump up the lights a bit, and I won't forget my power ...

PowerShell is now open-source, and cross-platform

The PowerShell team made a few announcements today: it's going open-source, and it's now available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. This is excellent news in itself, but the .NET team wanted to take the time to analyze what this means for .NET developers. First, the availability of PowerShell on Linux and macOS, while it doesn't aim at replacing ...

The week in .NET – 8/16/2016

To read last week's post, see The week in .NET – 8/9/2016. On .NET Last week, we had Pablo Santos and Francisco Monteverde to talk about PlasticSCM, a version control system with interesting features such as semantic merge and digital asset management. If you think version control is done and that Git is the end of it, you should check out...