7 Scenarios on covering how to deploy ASP.NET, NancyFX and F# applications as Docker Containers

I was on another whirlwind trip back in July, this time to a bunch of spots in the US which included Chicago where Pluralsight has one of their offices. The last time I was there I'd recorded a "Play by Play" course which is video recorded rather than a screen

I needed this video of running an example app through the Desktop App Converter from start to finish and so I'm sharing it here too; For full details, go to MSDN. Feel free to borrow that video if you have a use for it at your own events etc.

Ever wonder how to become a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional? Lisa Anderson, a Microsoft community program manager (CPM) for the central region of the United States, explained what she looks for recently at That Conference 2016, a summer camp for geeks, when she sat down with Channel 9's Seth Juarez.

I was battling the other day writing a custom DataAnnotations ValidationAttribute, where I needed access to a service class to perform the validation. The documentation on creating custom attributes is excellent, covering both server side and client side validation, but it doesn't mention this, presumably relatively common, requirement.

External Network Access to Kestrel and IIS Express in ASP.NET Core

Below are three issues with workarounds that could help you

F# xUnit library supporting better testing

Middleware Madness: Site Maintenance In ASP.NET Core

As outlined by Joe Duffy, LINQ introduces inefficiencies in the form of hidden allocations, from The 'premature optimization is evil' myth: Good question, who knows, probably only Jon Skeet can tell just by looking at the code!!

There are several great resources on the Internet about using the new Configuration and Options framework of ASP.NET Core - like this comprehensive post by Rick Strahl.

It's new, shiny and all the cool kids are using it, but is Core right for you? If you're just setting out with .NET Core (as most of us are) you're starting with a lot of the landscape hidden from you. Here's a rough plan of action to help you get started.

Today we’re excited to announce the final release of TypeScript 2.0!

I decided to prepare a simple Step by step: ASP.NET Core on Docker sample

1, 2, 3, GO! Run IIS in Docker on Windows Server 2016

TL;DR - I like the CoreCLR, project.json project system, and the new dotnet CLI so far, but there are a lot of differences in API that could easily burn you when you try to port existing .Net code to the CoreCLR. As I wrote about a couple weeks ago, I've been working to port my...

We have now released TFS "15" RC2. We are using it in production internally. It is fully supported for production use. You can upgrade from TFS 2012 or newer to RC2. You can also upgrade the RC1 release to RC2, and you will be able to upgrade from RC2 to RTM (that should be a very fast upgrade, since there will be very few changes between RC2 and RTM).

One of the things that we have learned from supporting RavenDB in production is that you by default, everything is a black box into which you have exactly zero input. And in order to figure out what the problems are, you need to use expert tools (WinDBG or VM MAP for example) that are typically more focused on developers, and not usually available in production.

Functions are the reason why many nice features become hard or impossible to implement. Functions make type inference hard and they make it impossible to use tools that rely on manipulation with concrete values - because functions introduce names with unknown values and types.

PSYaml is a simple PowerShell module that I've written that allows you to serialize PowerShell objects to "YAML Ain't Markup Language" (YAML) documents and deserialize YAML documents to PowerShell objects. It uses Antoine Aubry's excellent YamlDotNet library To start, you can simply load the PowerShell file and the manifest from its home on GitHub PSYaml ...

I've recently enabled support for Facebook Instant Articles, Google AMP, and Apple News on this blog following this enlightening article. It wasn't exactly plain sailing; AMP needs a logo, and a featured image set for every article (both of which must be above a minimum size); the Instant Articles plugin has a feed url which my feedburner plugin breaks; Apple News needs some real tweaking, but still strips out code blocks from posts.

You ever take over a codebase where the previous developer liked to ignore exceptions?

Creating a service for unknown technology is usually painful. Sorry, "service" is an unpopular world, nowadays we call it an API. For a few years, everybody says: let's create some REST service. Cool, flexible and uneasy to consume. Exactly uneasy - it is not a mistake, uneasy is a correct word.

I've got an Xbox One that I love that is connected to a DirectTV HDTV Receiver that I love somewhat less. The setup is quite simple. Since I can control the ...

Now it is possible with EntityGraphOperations library