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Installing .NET Core 3.0 preview to work with Visual Studio Code

Premier DeveloperJune 7, 2019Jun 7, 201906/7/19

I need to develop cross platform solutions and am often working in Linux, so I have taken to using Visual Studio Code as my IDE instead of Visual Studio.

Making Sense of .NET 5

Premier DeveloperJune 4, 2019Jun 4, 201906/4/19

At the first day of Microsoft’s annual Build conference, Microsoft announced .NET 5 which will be released in November 2020. This led to some confusion in discussions with some of my colleagues and friends. What about .NET Core? Isn’t that the future? The road forward?

Building a better DSC script

Premier DeveloperMay 10, 2019May 10, 201905/10/19

For those people that want to build a better DSC script, one that checks for most conditions and wants to keep their custom scripts from failing with no error handling, check out these recommendations.

Exploring Blazor with Visual Studio 2019

Premier DeveloperMarch 7, 2019Mar 7, 201903/7/19

In this post, Senior App Dev Manager Keith Beller walks use through Blazor, a new experimental framework for WebAssembly.

What is Blazor?
After 22 years of dominance as “the” native language for client-side browser interaction, JavaScript is facing new competition from other popular languages such as C/C++,

Running a .NET Core Web Application in Docker container using Docker Desktop for Windows

Premier DeveloperFebruary 27, 2019Feb 27, 201902/27/19

App Dev Managers Anand Shukla and Sash Kavalaparambil provide step by step instruction to run a .NET Core Web Application in Docker container using Docker Desktop for Windows.

Build an interactive assistant using QnA Maker

Premier DeveloperDecember 25, 2018Dec 25, 201812/25/18

I was recently engaged in a customer proof of concept scenario where they needed to turn their knowledgebase articles, FAQ’s and other company data into an interactive bot. For our scenario, we created a QnA Maker service that pulled HR information from a backend database so users can ask common questions in a conversational way instead of wasting time searching and scrolling through content.

Six Opinionated Tips to be a Better .NET Developer

Premier DeveloperDecember 24, 2018Dec 24, 201812/24/18

I have been a developer for over 10 years, and I am always looking at new ways to be more productive. May I present you with 6 tips that I have started to adopt that I think have increased my developer skills 1000% (YMMV).

Remote Monitoring of IoT Devices Using Azure and HoloLens

Premier DeveloperDecember 21, 2018Dec 21, 201812/21/18

This is going to be an IoT solution, which receives data from connected devices, stores the data and makes it available for consumption by a holographic or mobile application. So, you will first learn to set up the backend infrastructure--where you will have a device--which connects with a Cloud Gateway. Data received by the Cloud Gateway is stored within persistent storage, and finally, this data will be made available to a Holographic or Mobile app through Web APIs.

Raw threads and async lambdas

Premier DeveloperSeptember 7, 2018Sep 7, 201809/7/18

Using async methods/lambdas where they are not expected causes unexpected problems. The typical example I discuss with people is TaskFactory.StartNew() because its an easy way to create Tasks and some people reach for that instead of Task.Run(), but I recently came across some code hitting the same problem while creating threads the traditional way.

Accessing a .NET Bot’s State via Dependency Injection

Premier DeveloperMarch 29, 2018Mar 29, 201803/29/18

The .NET BotBuilder SDK has deprecated the StateClient class, leaving some to wonder how they should access their bot’s state. Premier Developer Consultant Ben Williams shares an example of using dependency injection in your BotFramework projects.

When using the .NET BotBuilder SDK’s dialog system,

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