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Managing Cloud Ready .NET App Secrets in Visual Studio

Developer Support May 31, 2020 May 31, 2020 05/31/20

Secrets need to be handled with care and this is the responsibility of every developer. We’ve all read those news reports of someone accidently checking a production password into source control only to find out the next day that their credit card has been maxed out.

.NET Conf 2019

Developer Support September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19

.NET Conf 2019, a free, 3-day, virtual developer event

[Service Fabric] Why won’t Visual Studio connect to my cluster?

Developer Support June 11, 2019 Jun 11, 2019 06/11/19

In this blog post, I’ll discuss something that has frustrated both myself and many others for quite a while, and that is, failure of Visual Studio to connect to an Azure Service Fabric cluster. We’ll be using Visual Studio 2017 as an example.

Developing a Dockerized Asp.Net Core Application Using Visual Studio Code

Developer Support June 7, 2019 Jun 7, 2019 06/7/19

Visual Studio Code offers feature parity with Visual Studio 2017/2019 when it comes to developing a containerized Asp.Net Core application. Since VSCode is cross platform, you can develop your next container DotNetCore application on a Linux or Mac while having access to all the great features that Windows users enjoy on VS2017/2019.

Remediation of old versions of Visual Studio Isolated Shell

Developer Support March 6, 2019 Mar 6, 2019 03/6/19

With this little tidbit of information, we were able to write a powershell script that iterates through a given folder recursively and identifies executables that are dependent on VS Isolated Shell.

Visualize Code with Visual Studio

Developer Support May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018 05/23/18

In this post, App Dev Manager Ed Tovsen spotlight the features and benefits of Code Maps in Visual Studio.Systems architects have long used modeling to design the structure, behavior, and interaction of systems within an organization. Modeling helps to ensure that requirements are clearly defined between users and IT. Models are created with ...

Setting up .NET Core Configuration Providers

Developer Support April 26, 2018 Apr 26, 2018 04/26/18

ASP Core uses the convenient Provider Pattern to load configuration key/value pairs from various sources and expose those to you as a single Configuration object. This allows you to grab a configuration key like ConnectionString with one line of code regardless of where it was sourced from. However, the configuration API is not available by default in .NET Core Console applications.

Real-time Code Quality with SonarLint in Visual Studio

Developer Support April 17, 2018 Apr 17, 2018 04/17/18

In the second part of her SonarQube series, Premier Developer Consultant Sana Noorani builds on top of SonarQube technology and explains how SonarLint can be added in Visual Studio to track real time code quality. What is SonarLint? SonarLint an extension you can add to an IDE such as Visual Studio that can provide developers real-time ...

Unit Testing Your JavaScript Code

Developer Support March 27, 2018 Mar 27, 2018 03/27/18

In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Jim Blizzard discusses how to set up Visual Studio 2017 to run JavaScript-based unit tests.This week, I demonstrated to a client how they could write unit tests in JavaScript to test their JavaScript code by leveraging Karma, Jasmine, and Chutzpah. The unit tests show up in Test ...

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