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This originally went out just to my Weekly Dev Tips mailing list, but I got a lot of positive comments and requests to share it, so I’m publishing it here. Sign up for Weekly Dev Tipsto get a new tip in your inbox …

Last updated: 13 October 2023 A pain point for some organizations is figuring out how to run tests that involve databases. These are not unit tests, by most folks’ definition (including my own: unit test or …

If you're trying to run EF Core migrations and getting errors, this post has the most common fix - you need to install the CLI tools for Entity Framework Core.

You may find yourself in a position where you need to have two (or more) different implementations of the same interface within your ASP.NET Core application. This may be because your application is too big to allow you …

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Technical Debt is a metaphor for shortcuts and hacks in software that make it more difficult to change and maintain than it could be with an optimal design. Many applications have accumulated a large amount of technical …

A frequent question I hear from clients is some variant of " Ok, Continuous Integration is great, but how do we get everybody on the team to pay attention to it?" This is obviously a bigger problem if the question is …

Git Graph does just what I want, which is to visualize commits to my git repository in a graph format that lets me easily see which commits and branches are where relative to one another.

There are several ways to measure test coverage in code, also known as code coverage. The two most common are line coverage and branch coverage. So, which one is more important? You might think line coverage is better, …

Desktop computers rarely need to hibernate, so you can probably safely remove the hiberfil.sys file and save yourself a few GB of space. To do so, just open up a new command prompt as an administrator: Click on the Start …