Wednesday July 17th

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Great Product Support

And now for something completely different... Shortly after we moved into our house in late 2012, the control panel on o...

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Generate Code Coverage Reports with ReportGenerator in Azure DevOps - ardalis

Recently I've been looking at different ways to generate code coverage reports during automated builds. I'm mostly worki...

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Livin' on the Edge: Dude Where's My Fix?!?

Yesterday, we covered the mechanisms that modern browsers can use to rapidly update their release channels. Today, let's...

Tuesday July 16th

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Share data simply and securely using Azure Data Share

Azure Data Share is available in public preview today, and offers a simple pane of glass over your data sharing relation...

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Using EasyAuth (AppService Authentication) with ASP.NET Core

There's this cool feature in Azure AppService that I love. It's called EasyAuth although it may not use that name anymor...

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Private / local C# analysers (without NuGet)

( Note: The information here depends upon the "new" .csproj format being used.. but it's not that new any more, so hopef...

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How to Install Firebase with Vue.JS

Firebase is a real-time cloud infrastructure for client-side apps, which enables developers to turn any Front-end framew...

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Passing a binary file to a web service from a .NET app

Sometimes a web service requires us to pass a binary file, such as an image in the request body. To do this, we need to ...

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Realtime Blazor Tic-Tac-Toe game - Bot vs Multiplayer using signalR

In this article, we will see how to create a bot vs. multiplayer tic-tac-toe game in blazor. Blazor is an open source .N...

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Azure Tips and Tricks Part 207 - Reduce Bruce Force attacks to Azure VMs

ATTENTION: Azure Tips and Tricks has moved! Go here to access the new site and subscribe to the RSS feed for future upda...

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Real World Scenario Testing using Azure DevOps and automated UI tests

In this episode, Abel Wang chats with Deepak Saini and Michael Ma to talk about scenario testing with automated UI tests...

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Cake v0.34.0 released

This journey wouldn't have been possible without an amazing community of contributors and users, we're really thankful f...

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How to Use The Azure KeyVault Service

The Azure KeyVault Service is where you store certificate keys, passwords and more instead of having them stored within ...

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Databricks pt 3: Creating an Azure Databricks Notebook

Azure Databricks is a web-based platform built on top of Apache Spark and deployed to Microsoft's Azure cloud platform t...

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The story of the failed backup

This story started a few years ago, in a very non technical setting. We changed the accountant that we use for Hibernati...

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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18936

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18936 (20H1) to Windows Insiders in the ...

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Get Android Messages, Photos, and Notifications on Your Windows Desktop

As an Android user, I have always been jealous of iOS users that own a Mac, as iMessage is pretty much awesome. The abil...

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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18362.10005 (19H2)

Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are releasing 19H2 Build 18362.10005 to Windows Insiders in the Slow ring. As a reminde...

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Confidential Consortium Framework (CCF) Overview

Learn about Microsoft's open source Confidential Consortium Framework (CCF), which leverages Trusted Execution Environme...

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Generating strongly-typed IDs at build-time with Roslyn: Using strongly-typed entity IDs to avoid primitive obsession - Part 5

This is another post in my series on strongly-typed IDs. In the first and second posts, I looked at the reasons for usin...

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Alexa.Tip - Build Unit Tested Skills in .NET

In this Alexa.Tip series, we explore some little bits of code that can make your life easier in developing Alexa Skills ...

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SQL Server 2019: Features for the Rest of Us - Simple Talk

I was talking recently with a friend about features of SQL Server 2019 (still in CTP at the time of this writing). I tho...

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Create a Trimmed Self-Contained Single Executable in .NET Core 3.0 #dotnetcore

A self-contained app is a great way to share your application as all components, runtime, and framework are included wit...

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Phone Dialer (Xamarin.Essentials API of the Week)

Xamarin.Essentials provides developers with cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications. On this week's Xamarin.Es...

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MSBuildAllProjects Considered Harmful

MSBuildAllProjects Considered Harmful | Panopticon Central

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Announcing Windows Server vNext Preview Build 18932

Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are pleased to release a new Insider preview build of the Windows Server VNext Semi-Ann...

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I'm writing a book! "Unit Testing: Principles, Patterns and Practices"

TL;DR: I'm writing a book called Unit Testing: Principles, Patterns and Practices. Link to the book: https://www.manning...

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Fixing Random, part 39

Let's sum up the last few episodes: Suppose we have a distribution of doubles, p, and a function f from double to double...

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CIJUG talk - HTTP Security Headers You Need To Know

Note: Slides do not tell the whole story of the talk, so take the stand alone slides with a grain of salt. Things may be...

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15: What's up with MvvmCross? With Tomasz Cielecki

On episode 15 of DevTalk, I speak to Tomasz Cielecki aka Cheesebaron about MvvmCross, a framework for developing native ...