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Running .NET applications client-side in the browser

March 23, 2018 Mar 23, 2018 03/23/18
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In this post, App Dev Managers Robert Schumann and Ben Hlaban, introduce us to Blazor – an experimental web UI framework based on C#, Razor, and HTML that runs in the browser via WebAssembly. This journey started from a blog by Daniel Roth. Other than the YouTube of Steve Sanderson’s prototype demo at NDC Oslo, this wasn’t much ...

Converting PCL (Portable Class Libraries) to .NET Standard Class Libraries – Part 3

January 10, 2018 Jan 10, 2018 01/10/18
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In Part 3 of this 3 part series, App Dev Manager, Herald Gjura describes how to incorporate these libraries into an existing .NET application.In Part 1 and 2 of this blog series I described how to migrate your old PCL libraries into the .NET Standard ones, and how to change you build and release pipeline for a successful NuGet deployment. In ...

Async Main() is available, but hidden

January 9, 2018 Jan 9, 2018 01/9/18
Pam Lahoud
Check out this quick tip on unlocking the new features of C# 7.1 from Premier Developer consultant Ben Williams.Ever try to use async/await in your Main method of a .NET app? You couldn’t before, but now you can. I just posted a quick tip about enabling this by turning on C# 7.1 features in Visual Studio (they are not enabled by default). ...

Blog of Blogging

November 23, 2017 Nov 23, 2017 11/23/17
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In this post, Senior App Dev Manager Marcus Fernandez sets up a blog using Miniblog.Core and Azure in just a few simple steps.Miniblog.Core a project by Mads, on the VS \ .NET team at MS, thank you.  I have been exploring dotnet core since it was released and I really like the idea of a more micro-architecture.  You control more of ...

Converting PCL (Portable Class Libraries) to .NET Standard Class Libraries

October 27, 2017 Oct 27, 2017 10/27/17
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In Part 1 of this 3 part series, App Dev Manager, Herald Gjura discusses converting PCL (Portable Class Libraries) to .NET Standard Class Libraries. Overview I have been working for this client for quite a few years and had advised them to break down some of their key business functionality and features and distribute them as NuGet packages...

Updating Windows Form UI elements from another thread

August 8, 2017 Aug 8, 2017 08/8/17
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This post is from App Dev Manager, Omer Amin who covers how to update Windows Form UI elements using worker threads.In a typical Windows Forms .NET application, the UI elements are created and updated by the main thread. This thread is also responsible for processing Windows messages. For this reason, it is recommended to keep message ...

What can I do in .NET Core that I can’t in the full .NET Framework?

June 30, 2017 Jun 30, 2017 06/30/17
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This post is provided by Senior App Dev Managers, Keith Beller and John Abele who ask the question, “What can I do in .NET Core that I can’t do in the full .NET Framework?” Microsoft’s mission to empower every individual and organization is manifested in .NET Core, the most transformative .NET framework ever. Rebuilt from the ...

Defining ASP.NET Core Controller action constraint to match the correct action

June 5, 2017 Jun 5, 2017 06/5/17
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When developing Web Api controllers many times we have situations where we need to define similar arguments in different methods. For example, a controller that has 2 methods that query users either by last name or date of birth. The name of the method is different but they both will receive a single argument of type string. When the routing engine can’t determine which action method it should call, a status code of 500 is returned.

Using Application Insights SDK in Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) style with .NET

May 26, 2017 May 26, 2017 05/26/17
Pam Lahoud
This is the second post in a series on the Application Insights SDK from Premier Developer consultant Nasir Syed.  Check out his previous post here. In my previous post I talked about using Custom Attributes to avoid repetition, code pollution etc., and illustrated it from a very high level to use with Application Insights API, custom ...