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New prescriptive guidance for Open Source .NET Library Authors
There's a great new bunch of guidance just published representing Best Practices for creating .NET Libraries. Best of all, it was shepherded by JSON.NET's James Newton-King. Who better to help explain...
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Customer Notes: Diagnosing issues under load of Web API app migrated to...
When the engineers on the ASP.NET/.NET Core team talk to real customers about actual production problems they have, interesting stuff comes up. I've tried to capture a real customer interaction here...
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Dependabot for .NET Core dependency tracking in GitHub
I've been exploring automated dependency tracking lately. I usually use my podcast's ASP.NET Core website that I host on Github as a guinea pig. I tried Nukeeper and the dotnet outdated global tool -...
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ASP.NET Core 2.2 Parameter Transformers for clean URL generation and slugs in...
I noticed that last week .NET Core 2.2 Preview 3 was released: .NET Core 2.2 Preview 3 ASP.NET Core 2.2 Preview 3 Entity Framework 2.2 Preview 3 You can download and get started with .NET Core 2.2, on...
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Side by Side user scoped .NET Core installations on Linux with dotnet-install.sh
I can run .NET Core on Windows, Mac, or a dozen Linuxes. On my Ubuntu installation I can check what version I have installed and where it is like this:$ dotnet --version 2.1.403 $ which dotnet...
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.NET Core and .NET Standard for IoT - The potential of the Meadow Kickstarter
I saw this Kickstarter today - Meadow: Full-stack .NET Standard IoT platform. It says that "It combines the best of all worlds; it has the power of RaspberryPi, the computing factor of an Arduino, and...
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Updating my ASP.NET Website from .NET 2.2 Core Preview 2 to .NET 2.2 Core...
I've recently returned from a month in South Africa and I was looking to unwind while the jetlagged kids sleep. I noticed that .NET Core 2.2 Preview 3 came out while I wasn't paying attention. My...
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Terminus and FluentTerminal are the start of a world of 3rd party OSS console...
Folks have been trying to fix supercharge the console/command line on Windows since Day One. There's a ton of open source projects over the year that try to take over or improve on "conhost.exe" (the...
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Web Development and Advanced Techniques with Linux on Windows (WSL)
I've posted several times on the Windows Subsystem for Linux that allows you to run Linux on Windows 10 without a VM. Check out my YouTube on Editing code and files on Windows Subsystem for Linux on...
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Compiling C# to WASM with Mono and Blazor then Debugging .NET Source with...
Blazor quietly marches on. In case you haven't heard (I've blogged about Blazor before) it's based on a deceptively simple idea - what if we could run .NET Standard code in the browsers? No, not...
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How to build a Wall Mounted Family Calendar and Dashboard with a Raspberry Pi...
I love dashboards. I love Raspberry Pis (tiny $35 computers the size of a set of playing cards). And I'm cheap frugal. I found a 24" old LCD at Goodwill (a local thrift shop) and bought it but it's...
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Upgrading the DakBoard Family Calendar with Raspberry Pi Zero W and Read Only...
Earlier this week I built a Family Calendar using a used flat screen monitor and a Raspberry Pi 3 I had lying around and documented it in my post How to build a Wall Mounted Family Calendar and...
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The 2018 Christmas List of Best STEM Toys for Kids
Hey friends! This is my FIFTH year doing a list of Great STEM Christmas Toys for Kids! Can you believe it? In case you missed them, here's the previous years' lists! Be aware I use Amazon referral...
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On Developer Advocacy
Naming things is hard. I've talked before about the term "evangelism" and my dislike for it. Evangelism, Advocacy, Developer Relations, PR, Marketing, and on and on. More and more I'm just trying to...
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Announcing WPF, WinForms, and WinUI are going Open Source
Buckle up friends! Microsoft is open sourcing WPF, Windows Forms (winforms), and WinUI, so the three major Windows UX technologies are going open source! All this is happening on the same day as .NET...
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How to remove words from the Windows Autocorrect Spell Check Dictionary
Well crap. I was typing really fast and got a squiggly, so I right-clicked on it and rather than selecting the correct word from the autocorrect dictionary, I clicked Add To Dictionary. I added the...
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How to set up ASP.NET Core 2.2 Health Checks with BeatPulse's...
ASP.NET Core 2.2 is out and released and upgrading my podcast site was very easy. Once I had it updated I wanted to take advantage of some of the new features. For example, I have used a number of...
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Useful ASP.NET Core 2.2 Features
Earlier this week I talked about how I upgraded my podcast site to ASP.NET Core 2.2 and added Health Check features fairly easily. There's a ton of new features and so far it's been great running on my...
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Enjoy some DOS Games this Christmas with DOSBox
I blogged about DOSBox five years ago! Apparently I get nostalgic around this time of year when I've got some downtime. Here's what I had to say: I was over at my parents' house for the Christmas...
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The Fun of Finishing - Exploring old games with Xbox Backwards Compatibility
I'm on vacation for the holidays and I'm finally getting some time to play video games. I've got an Xbox One X that is my primary machine, and I also have a Nintendo Switch that is a constant source of...
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