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Azure App Service Secrets and Web Site Hidden Gems
I just discovered that you can see a preview (almost like a daily build) of the Azure Portal if you go to https://preview.portal.azure.com instead of https://portal.azure.com. Sometimes the changes are...
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Xamarin .NET Workbooks - Interactive Computing is a stellar learning tool
I've been thinking a lot about how to best teach .NET and C#/F# to folks who are new to the space. We've added an in-browser no-install C# tutorial at http://dot.net. You can run through almost a few...
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Temporary Fix: Logitech BRIO Camera broken on Windows 10 Insiders 15042
I just updated my Windows 10 to Insiders Fast Build 15042, and suddenly my glorious new Logitech BRIO 4k webcam doesn't work! Well, it's all beta software, but it turns out the issue is with something...
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Exploring the new DevOps - Azure Command Line Interface 2.0 (CLI)
I'm a huge fan of the command line, and sometimes I feel like Windows people are missing out on the power of text mode. Fortunately, today Windows 10 has bash (via Ubuntu on Windows 10), PowerShell,...
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Relationship Hacks: An Allowance System for Adults
I'm setting a goal for myself to finish my half-finished book relationshiphacks.com this year. In an attempt to make that happen (and because the recent podcast with my wife was wildly popular) I'm...
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Relationship Hacks - Mindfulness - Don't live your life by default
I'm setting a goal for myself to finish my half-finished book relationshiphacks.com this year. In an attempt to make that happen (and because the recent podcast with my wife was wildly popular) I'm...
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Nintendo Switch and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild are an ABSOLUTE JOY
I bought a Nintendo Switch last week with my allowance and I'm utterly smitten. It's brilliant. It's absolutely brilliant. Now, to be clear, I'm neither a hardcore gamer nor a journalist. However, I am...
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ZEIT now deployments of open source ASP.NET Core web apps with Docker
ZEIT is a new cloud service and "now" is the name of their deployment tool. ZEIT World is their DNS service. If you head over to https://zeit.co/ you'll see a somewhat cryptic animated gif that shows...
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Options for CSS and JS Bundling and Minification with ASP.NET Core
Maria and I were updating the NerdDinner sample app (not done yet, but soon) and were looking at various ways to do bundling and minification of the JSS and CS. There's runtime bundling on ASP.NET 4.x...
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Visual Studio 2017 can automatically recommend NuGet packages for unknown types
There's a great feature in Visual Studio 2015.3 and Visual Studio 2017 that is turned off by default. It does use about ~10 megs of memory but it makes me so happy that I turn it on. It's under C# |...
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Command Line: Using dotnet watch test for continuous testing with .NET Core...
I've installed .NET Core 1.0 on my machine. Let's see if I can get a class library and tests running and compiling automatically using only the command line. (Yes, some of you are freaked out by my...
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Trying ASP.NET Core on the Google Cloud Platform "App Engine Flexible...
Last week I used Zeit and "now" to deploy an ASP.NET Core app (via a container) to the Zeit cloud. Tonight the kids are asleep so I thought I'd deploy to the Google Cloud. They've got beta support for...
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Writing and debugging Linux C++ applications from Visual Studio using the...
I've blogged about the "Windows Subsystem for Linux" (also known as "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows") many times before. Response to this Windows feature has been a little funny because folks try to:...
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How to control PowerPoint on Windows with a Bluetooth Nintendo Switch JoyCon...
I usually use a Logitech Presentation Clicker to control PowerPoint presentations, but I'm always looking for new ways. Michael Samarin has a great app called KeyPenX that lets you use a Surface pen to...
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Ruby on Rails on Azure App Service (Web Sites) with Linux (and Ubuntu on...
Running Ruby on Rails on Windows has historically sucked. Most of the Ruby/Rails folks are Mac and Linux users and haven't focused on getting Rails to be usable for daily development on Windows. There...
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Setting up a Shiny Development Environment within Linux on Windows 10
While I was getting Ruby on Rails to work nicely under Ubuntu on Windows 10 I took the opportunity to set up my *nix bash environment, which was largely using defaults. Yes, I know I can use zsh or...
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ASP.NET - Overposting/Mass Assignment Model Binding Security
This little post is just a reminder that while Model Binding in ASP.NET is very cool, you should be aware of the properties (and semantics of those properties) that your object has, and whether or not...
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Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Lift and Shift vs App Services - When a VM in...
I got an interesting question today. This is actually an extremely common one so I thought I'd take a bit to explore it. It's worth noting that I don't know the result of this blog post. That is, I...
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Audit and Optimize your Windows 10 Search Indexing Options
I was getting frustrated with the speed (or lack of) of Windows Search within Windows 10 lately. I went over to my Indexing Options - just hit Start and type Indexing Options - and was surprised to see...
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Managing dotnet Core 2.0 and dotnet Core 1.x versioned SDKs on the same machine
Tons of great announcements this week at the BUILD conference. I'll slowly blog my take on some of the cooler features, but for now here's a rollup of the major blog posts for developers: Announcing...
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