MANY articles on a wide array of topics. You’ll find a lot of my newer content is going to my YouTube channel first, but I do still blog occasionally.
Last updated: 13 October 2023 Most C# coding standards recommend using camelCase for local variables and _camelCase for private or internal (and I also say for protected, but that’s just me) fields. Unfortunately, …
I’ve given this advice quite a number of times so I figured it was time to put it into an online article. If you’re a.NET developer you probably use or have used Visual Studio. Visual Studio has two kinds of …
Last updated: 13 October 2023 Automated tests have gained a lot of acceptance in recent years. Not long ago, many organizations bristled at the notion of having their expensive developers spend time writing code that …
If you're working with git, especially with open source, sometimes you'll find that you want to work with a particular pull request, or PR, locally. This article shows how to do so using the git command line.
I've worked with many clients who are upgrading from EF 6 to EF Core. Many of them are coming from EDMX files, and are wondering what the best approach is in EF Core to configure entities based on the database (or vice …
Last updated: 13 October 2023 Recently I’ve been looking at different ways to generate code coverage reports during automated builds. I’m mostly working with Azure DevOps for builds these days, as …
I’m a big fan of unit tests and integration tests and have written about them frequently. I also authored the original docs on writing integration tests in ASP.NET Core using TestHost and related types. However, …
GitHub only lets you fork a repository once. And it doesn't offer any way to update that fork from the web interface. So, once you've got a fork, you have a snapshot-in-time of the original repository, but if a few …
Recently I was working on some WinForms and classic MVC (not Core) apps built with ASP.NET and migrating them to Azure using containers. There's a repo with samples and an ebook on modernizing your.NET apps so they can …
I’ve written previously about how to set the window title in PowerShell. Unfortunately, it’s a little complicated. Recently on twitter, though, Greg MacLellan showed me how to create an alias so you can just …