For the last week or so I’ve been working on modernizing the Desert Code Camp site which meant that I am basically rewriting it. :smile: Part of the rewrite is to make all of the user facing functionality, adding/viewing sessions, viewing the schedule, etc., available from an API and not code behind. I spent the last week or so designing and implementing the API in ASP.NET Core 6. The technology used in building the API does not matter for this post but the example repository is in ASP.NET Core. While testing the application, I started to heavily use the HTTP Client feature of JetBrains Rider. The HTTP Client is a bundled plugin, which is enabled by default, which allows you to emulate calls to a web service or web API. It works very much like Postman, but in the IDE and included.

Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I decided to create a series of blog posts around working with it.

I’ve been using JetBrains Rider for quite some time now.

This month in a chat with the speakers of ESPC one of the United States based speakers asked about some travel gear recommendations. I shared my travel gear with them and they found it helpful. I thought it would be a good idea to share it with you all. I have been using this gear for a while now and I am very happy with it. I hope you find it helpful too.

This month in a chat with the speakers of ESPC one of the United States based speakers asked about some travel gear recommendations. I shared my travel gear with them and they found it helpful. I thought it would be a good idea to share it with you all. I have been using this gear for a while now and I am very happy with it. I hope you find it helpful too.

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For the last week or so I’ve been working on modernizing the Desert Code Camp site which meant that I am basically rewriting it. :smile: Part of the rewrite is to make all of the user facing functionality, adding/viewing sessions, viewing the schedule, etc., available from an API and not code behind. I spent the last week or so designing and implementing the API in ASP.NET Core 6. The technology used in building the API does not matter for this post but the example repository is in ASP.NET Core. While testing the application, I started to heavily use the HTTP Client feature of JetBrains Rider. The HTTP Client is a bundled plugin, which is enabled by default, which allows you to emulate calls to a web service or web API. It works very much like Postman, but in the IDE and included.

While we hope it never happens, demo failures happen when presenting talks or doing workshops. I do not know of a speaker that has not had a demo go bad while up on stage or live streams. Many of us have a back up plan… After searching around for solutions for this, I decided to use git tagging to solve this for me.

.NET has been around for a while and has had many versions. We started the .NET Framework, moved into .NET Core, and now just .NET, kind of sort of :smile:. Keeping your application up with the latest version of .NET can be challenging. There are budgets to consider, time to learn the differences, and time to “fit in the migration.” Migrating or “upgrading” an ASP.NET MVC from .NET Framework to ASP.NET Core can be easy at times. Other times it can be just hard. There are no silver bullets to the migration as each project and solution is different. I’m going to walk you through one of the ways you can have a successful migration from ASP.NET MVC to ASP.NET Core MVC. At the end of the post, I’ll show you some gotchas that I have run across migrating applications.

Celebrate the community-driven enhancements in Aspire 13.0, highlighting key PRs improving App Service, Kusto workflows, dashboards, and cross-language support.

It’s time to take your unit testing to the next level. You’ve implemented either NUnit, or xUnit, or MSTest in your projects. You’ve gotten your code coverage to 80+%. But the are just some things that are hard to test or validate in your project. How do you test the “business logic” in your repository class? How do you test your dependent web service or database? Yeah, you can write special unit test and create fake objects to mimic these dependencies but why waste your time writing code that does not ship with the end product. Or write a lot of code with the ExcludeFromCoverage attribute :smile:. Well this is mocking comes in.

It’s very common for myself and other Microsoft MVPs to get asked “What does it take to become a Microsoft MVP” or “I want to be a Microsoft MVP, please tell me what I can do” when we speak at conferences or chat with each other on social networks. The short answer is most people outside of Microsoft do not know that the “secret formula” is. The long answer requires a little bit of understanding of how Microsoft evaluates potential candidates for receiving the award and what the propose of the award is. The rest of this post is my opinion on how you can become a Microsoft MVP. To see what Microsoft says about how you can become a Microsoft MVP visit http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/becoming-an-mvp.aspx For one to earn the Microsoft MVP award, Microsoft has to see the recipient as someone who provides value to the Microsoft ecosystem and is influential in the software industry. The award is given based on the previous year’s contributions to the Microsoft ecosystem and is from one of the product teams. Product teams include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft .NET and many others. Each product group budgets for a certain number of MVPs a year, depending on the specialty, there can be very few spots to many spots available to for new candidates. In addition to this, you need to get nominated by a Microsoft MVP or Microsoft employee for Microsoft to consider you. OK, so how can I provide value to the Microsoft ecosystem you ask. That’s the tricky spot; there are no fixed rules, minimum contributions or formula for getting in. That being said there are a few things you can do to get on the radar:

If you’ve done much with Azure Functions and the Event Grid triggers, you’ve probably come across the post ‘Azure Function Event Grid Trigger Local Debugging’. Even searching for ‘Azure Function Event Grid Trigger’ on Bing and it’s the first result that comes up, at least for me. :smile: The post itself, at the time of me writing this, is almost two years old. While most of the post is still valid, some of Azure has changed, and the post is based on using Visual Studio. So this post is meant to be a modernized version of that post using JetBrains Rider.

Well “dynamic-ish”. The Speaking Engagements page on this site uses data files to generate the list of upcoming and previous speaking engagements. Which generates the content shown here.

This article provides insights on how to work with dotnet 10 effectively using Development Containers without affecting your local machine setup.

This article will guide you through the process of adding and customizing Oh My Zsh in a Linux Development Container for a better development experience.

Update November 5th, 2020 Thanks to Rolf Kristensen, one of the NLog maintainers, and some debugging, I came up with another solution!

A year ago, yesterday, I went to the Emergency Room because I was getting cold sweats, and something did not feel right with my body. Well, after a few tests and a few doctors later, a cardiologist came in and told me I had 90% blockage in the left anterior descending artery, better known as the Widow Maker. It’s known as the widow maker because you tend to have minutes left to live when it is blocked. I am glad I listened to my body and my wife and went into the Emergency Room.

Like a lot of engineers nowadays, I use Docker for my development environment. I have a Windows 11 machine with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and I use Docker Desktop for Windows. I also use Developer Containers with a volume for the source code to work with my blog, which means the files are not stored on the local file system but in a Docker volume. Occasionally, I need to access the files in the Docker volume for image creation. This post will show you how to access the files in the Docker volume on Windows.

I’ve been working on a personal project of mine called “JosephGuadagno.NET Broadcasting”. I know a terrible name, but I’ll work on a better name when it’s ready to be launched. :smile: This application is a web application that allows users to broadcast their content to their followers. One of the components of the application is an API that allows users to create and schedule their content in the application. The application is built using ASP.NET Core, Azure, Swagger, and other components. I recently secured the application using Microsoft’s MSAL library. Now, I’m going to show you how to enable user authentication in Swagger using Microsoft Identity.

Microsoft Identity Web is a library which contains a set of reusable classes used in conjunction with ASP.NET Core for integrating with the Microsoft identity platform (formerly Azure AD v2.0 endpoint) and AAD B2C.

This article provides instructions on how to use certificates for authentication with the Microsoft Identity Library in .NET applications.