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Visual Studio for Nintendo Switch? - FUZE4 Nintendo Switch is an amazing...
I love my Nintendo Switch. It's a brilliant console that fits into my lifestyle. I use it on planes, the kids play it on long car rides, and it's great both portable and docked. NOTE: Check out my blog...
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Assert your assumptions - .NET Core and subtle locale issues with WSL's Ubuntu
I thought this was an interesting and subtle bug behavior that was not only hard to track down but hard to pin down. I wasn't sure 'whose fault it was.' Here's the story. Feel free to follow along and...
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How to make a pretty prompt in Windows Terminal with Powerline, Nerd Fonts,...
I've blogged about Patching the new Cascadia Code to include Powerline Glyphs and other Nerd Fonts for the Windows Terminal but folks have asked very specifically, how do I make my prompt look like...
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Create exceptional interactive documentation with Try .NET - The Polly NuGet...
I've blogged at length about the great open source project called "Polly" NuGet Package of the Week: Polly wanna fluently express transient exception handling policies in .NET? Adding Cross-Cutting...
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Be a Technology Tourist
I was talking to Tara and we were marveling that in in 1997 15% of Americans had Passports. However, even now less than half do. Consider where the US is physically located. It's isolated in a...
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Adafruit's Circuit Playground Express simulated Visual Studio Code's Device...
I'm an unabashed Adafruit fan and I often talking about them because I'm always making cool stuff with their hardware and excellent tutorials. You should check out the YouTube video we made when I...
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Trying out Visual Studio Online - Using the cloud to manage and compile your...
Visual Studio Online was announced in preview, so I wanted to try it out. I already dig the Visual Studio "Remote" technology (it's almost impossibly amazing) so moving the local container or WSL to...
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Announcing .NET Jupyter Notebooks
Jupyter Notebooks has been the significant player in the interactive development space for many years, and Notebooks have played a vital role in the continued popularity of languages like Python, R,...
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New YouTube Series: Computer things they didn't teach you in school
OK, fine maybe they DID teach you this in class. But, you'd be surprised how many people think they know something but don't know the background or the etymology of a term. I find these things...
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Cool WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) tips and tricks you (or I) didn't know...
It's no secret I dig WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and now that WSL2 is available in Windows Insiders Slow it's a great time to really explore the options that are available. What I'm finding is so...
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Computer things they didn't teach you in school #2 - Code Pages, Character...
OK, fine maybe they DID teach you this in class. But, you'd be surprised how many people think they know something but don't know the background or the etymology of a term. I find these things...
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Programmatically change your system's mic and speakers with NirCmd and Elgato...
I've got a lot of different sound devices like USB Headphones, a formal Conference Room Speakerphone for conference calls, and 5.1 Surround Sound speakers, as well as different mics like a nice Shure...
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Easily move WSL distributions between Windows 10 machines with import and...
My colleague Tara and I were working on prepping a system for Azure IoT development and were using WSL2 on our respective machines. The scripts we were running were long-running and tedious and by the...
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The open source Carter Community Project adds opinionated elegance to ASP.NET...
I blogged about NancyFX 6 years ago and since then lots of ASP.NET open source frameworks that build upon - and improve! - web development on .NET have become popular. There's more than one way to...
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Defragmenting your Calendar and your Outlook
It's a double-meeting that! Get it? "Outlook?" Seriously, though, sometimes folks comment on my busy schedule and I joke that I'm "playing tetris with Outlook" where appointments are falling blocks and...
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Remote Debugging a .NET Core Linux app in WSL2 from Visual Studio on Windows
With Visual Studio Code and WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) you can be in a real Linux environment and run "code ." from the Linux prompt and Visual Studio Code will launch in Windows and effectively...
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Advice to my 20 year old self
I had a lovely interaction on Twitter recently where a young person reached out to me over Twitter DM. She said: If you could go back and give your 20-something-year-old self some advice, what would...
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Updating an ASP.NET Core 2.2 Web Site to .NET Core 3.1 LTS
Now that .NET Core 3.1 is out jus this last week and it is a "LTS" or Long Term Support version, I thought it'd be a good time to update my main site and my podcast to .NET 3.1. You can read about what...
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Moving an ASP.NET Core from Azure App Service on Windows to Linux by testing...
I updated one of my websites from ASP.NET Core 2.2 to the latest LTS (Long Term Support) version of ASP.NET Core 3.1 this week. Now I want to do the same with my podcast site AND move it to Linux at...
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Setting up Azure DevOps CI/CD for a .NET Core 3.1 Web App hosted in Azure App...
Following up on my post last week on moving from App Service on Windows to App Service on Linux, I wanted to make sure I had a clean CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) pipeline for...
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