Avoiding SQL Server plan cache pollution with EF Core 3 and Enumerable.Contains() One of the many advantages of using a tool like Entity Framework Core is, that you are sure that the framework will generate properly parameterized SQL for you. This helps avoid SQL injection issues and avoids plan cache pollution. Unfortunately, EF Core ...
WeWork sells off social network Meetup to AlleyCorp and other investors – TechCrunch Meetup, the social networking platform designed to connect people in person, is being spun out from shared office space provider WeWork, the company confirmed on Monday. The site is being sold to AlleyCorp and other private investors for an undisclosed su...
Improved Git Experience in Visual Studio 2019 | Visual Studio Blog We released the first iteration of a revamped Git experience in Visual Studio to enhance your productivity when working with code on GitHub, Azure Repos, and other hosting services
Hosting and ASP.NET Core API in a Container Part 1 of 2 - Building the Container | Premier Developer App Dev Manager Greg Roe explores hosting cross platform ASP.NET Core Applications with containers in this two part series. ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform, open-source framework for building modern , cloud-based, connected applications. With ASP.NET co...
Tip 258 - Write queries and create dashboards using the full power of Azure Resource Graph Sometimes, it is difficult to gain insights into your cloud resources. Especially when they are scattered across many Azure subscriptions. Azure Resource Graph provides a solution for this. You can use it to query your resources in Azure across subscripti...
Update #2 on Microsoft cloud services continuity Since last week’s update, the global health pandemic continues to impact every organization—large or small—their employees, and the customers they serve. Everyone is working tirelessly to support all our customers, especially critical health and safety or...
AWS Ground Station AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, downlink and process satellite data, and scale your satellite operations quickly, easily and cost-effectively without having to worry about building or managing ...
Azure being overwhelmed by 775% surge in demand in lockdown regions - MSPoweruser Microsoft has revealed a spike in Azure usage as employees are working from home amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The company also revealed some important
Simplify microservices with Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) Building distributed applications is a tough job! To get it right you will need lots of tools just to get started. Think about availability, scalability, service discovery, data consistency, developer productivity... Now you have chosen some kind of a con...
Deploy complex application, seamlessly | Qovery Qovery is the first Container as a Service (CaaS) platform that allows any developer to deploy an application in just a few seconds.
Go serverless: Real-time applications with Azure SignalR Service | Azure Friday Modern applications light up with real-time information. Anthony Chu joins Donovan Brown to show how to deliver live updates from Azure Functions to web, mobile, and desktop apps with Azure SignalR Service. Learn how to send real-time messages over WebSoc...
Open Source Tools From the Warren for President Tech Team We’re taking the important step of open-sourcing some of the most important projects of the Elizabeth Warren campaign for anyone to use.
"I thought it would be more of an old Soviet kind" — Jon Galloway on the Russian visa process, Sovietness, and tech conferences There are many people who find traveling to Russia an extreme and exotic adventure. Some say snow cov...
Production Debugging for .NET meets Infrastructure as Code | Ozcode Deploy Ozcode Production Debugger to Azure using Pulumi, next-gen IaC, to enable easy debugging of your .NET Apps and services. Learn more >
Optimising C# for a serverless environment We recently used Azure Functions to process marine vessel telemetry from around the world. We optimised our processing for a serverless environment which meant that the compute would cost less than £10 / month. This post summarises some of the techniques ...
Visual Studio Subscriptions resources for remote learning and productivity | Visual Studio Blog The Visual Studio Subscriptions team wants to do everything we can to support you, wherever you’re at during this tough time. We’ve got some suggestions for staying productive at home, and ways that you can take advantage of benefits in your Visual Studio...
'Azure appears to be full': UK punters complain of capacity issues on Microsoft's cloud Bad time to request new resources, and existing ones have problems too
Letter to myself in late 2008 [I originally wrote and distributed this post to Y Combinator founders and have been encouraged to share it publicly, so here it is.] For context: in 2008 I was the founder/CEO of a company called imeem, which at the time had ~90 employees, good metrics, ...
Azure Dedicated Host: New capabilities and benefits Late last year, we’ve announced the general availability of Azure Dedicated Hosts. This blog provides an update regarding the new and recently added capabilities since we initially introduced Azure…
How to create a gRPC service ? – Anthony Giretti's .NET blog You’ll need to open Visual Studio 2019 and select “gRPC service” in “Create a new project” screen:
Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible. There is a huge opportunity for the creation of private client-side-only PWAs in the world but developers wanting to build such apps are in for an uphill battle against the status quo and now against Apple as well. I've just read a post by Aral Balkan ent...
Hierarchical Depth Buffers Overview A hierarchical depth buffer is a multi-level depth (Z) buffer used as an acceleration structure for depth queries. As with normal texture mip chains, the dimensions of each level are generally successive power-of-2 fractions of the full-resolutio...
Displaying enum as select list in ASP.NET Core Displaying enum as select list in ASP.NET Core, using Display attribute to rename enum members and reading names from resource files.
Logging in ASP .NET Core 3.1 This is the twelfth of a new series of posts on ASP .NET Core 3.1 for 2020. In this series, we’ll cover 26 topics over a span of 26 weeks from January through June 2020, titled&n
NServiceBus and .NET Core Generic Host My current client is using .NET Core 2.x, with plans to upgrade to 3.x next month. As part of that system, we do quite a bit of messaging, with NServiceBus as the tool of choice to help make this easier. To get it working with our .NET Core
The March 2020 release of Azure Data Studio is now available - SQL Server Blog The March release of Azure Data Studio is now available. Download Azure Data Studio and review the release notes to get started. Please note: After downloading Azure Data Studio, say Yes to enabling preview features so that you can use extensions. Azure D...
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Dual boot authentication with ASP.Net Core This is a post about having two kinds of authentication working at the same time in ASP.Net Core. But choosing which authentication method ...
ongoing by Tim Bray · Facet: Push vs Pull If you want to process events, you can fetch them from the infrastructure or you can have the infrastructure hand them to you. Neither idea is crazy.
Using GitHub Actions to deploy a .Net Web App - Azure Greg So I wanted to take a look into GitHub Action’s and deploy a .Net Web App, this is my first real look into them and will be blogging about them a lot more in the future, below are the steps I took to do this. Create a basic .Net MVC Web App using .Net Cor...
Data Breaches with Troy Hunt - Easy Prey Podcast Troy Hunt is an Australian Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Developer Security. He doesn’t work for Microsoft, but they're kind enough to recognize his community contributions by way of their award programs which he...
Intro to quantum computing with Q# – Part 1, The background and the qubit Quantum mechanics is one of the fundamental theories of physics, and has been tremendously successful at describing the behavior of subatomic particles. However, its counter-intuitive probabilistic nature, bizarre rules and confusing epistemology have tro...
NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS – but forgot about eye-watering cloudy egress costs before lift-off Audit finds that error could actually mean less data flows to boffins because space agency may not be able to afford downloads
Specification by Example, 10 years later It's now been ten years since I submitted the final manuscript of Specification by Example to the publisher. During the last two months, I've been conducting...
Introducing the New Pull Request Experience for Azure Repos | Azure DevOps Blog Pull Requests are a vital feature for many Azure Repos customers. We are excited to announce that our new pull request web experience is now available in preview! Not only is the new experience mobile-friendly and faster, we have also added several new fe...
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Colorful Git Prompt for Azure Cloud Shell and Visual Studio Code A brand new Git prompt for Azure Cloud Shell
Retweeting Twitter Mentions On Demand with Twilio SMS and ASP.NET Core Programming tutorial demonstrating how to retweet Twitter mentions on demand from SMS messages sent through Twilio Programmable SMS and the Twitter API using an ASP.NET Core app running on an Azure app service.
5 Reasons Why You As a Developer Should Venture Into Machine Learning Today I’m fortunate enough to occasionally be invited to speak at conferences around the world about what I’m truly passionate about. Having the opportunity to teach machine learning to groups of highly skilled .NET developers is a privilege and one of the most...
Azure Functions custom handlers are now in preview | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Extend the Azure Functions runtime with support for your preferred language or language version using a lightweight HTTP server.
Windows Terminal 0.10 adds mouse support for WSL Microsoft has released a new version of the Windows Terminal with a couple of new features. It now supports mouse input in Windows Subsystem for Linux apps, and you can duplicate the current pane.
Apple unveils new iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support in iPadOS Apple today unveiled its most advanced iPad Pro, adding an Ultra Wide camera and studio-quality mics, and a breakthrough LiDAR Scanner.
The good parts of AWS - A visual summary A summary of Daniel Vassallo and Josh Pschorr Ebook. Find out about the secrets of DynamoDB, S3, EC2, Lambda and others. A Guide for AWS DevOps enthusiasts.
Publishing applications to IIS, Azure, AWS and more - using Rider! - .NET Tools Blog Shipping is a feature! At JetBrains, we love to ship software. We like it so much we release EAP versions of software in addition to stable releases. Whether it’s to the cloud, on an in-house networked server, or elsewhere, your … Continue reading →
Key Vault for ASP .NET Core 3.1 Web Apps This is the eleventh of a new series of posts on ASP .NET Core 3.1 for 2020. In this series, we’ll cover 26 topics over a span of 26 weeks from January through June 2020, titled&
New features for Form Recognizer now available Extracting text and structure information from documents is a core enabling technology for robotic process automation and workflow automation.
Visual Studio Code Docker extension 1.0 - Better than Ever! | Visual Studio Blog We recently released the 1.0 version of our Visual Studio Code Docker extension, which is the first general availability (GA) release. The Docker extension makes it easier to build apps that leverage Docker containers. The extension helps scaffold needed ...
We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead | The Old New Thing The history of defect tracking in the Windows team goes back to Windows 1.0, which used a text file. After Windows 1.01 released, a bunch of people in the apps division got together and threw together a bug tracking database. Because hey,
Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release | Windows Command Line Welcome to the v0.10 release of the Windows Terminal! As always, you can install the Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store or download the package from the GitHub releases page. Let’s dive into what’s new! Mouse Input The Terminal now supports mouse i...
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Power your Azure GPU workstations with flexible GPU partitioning Today we are very excited to share the general availability of NVv4 virtual machines in South Central US, East US and West Europe regions, with additional regions planned in the coming months.
Announcing the general availability of Azure Monitor for virtual machines Today we are announcing the general availability of Azure Monitor for virtual machines (VMs), which provides an in-depth view of VM performance trends and dependencies.
Announcing .NET 5 Preview 1 | .NET Blog At the end of last year, we shipped .NET Core 3.0 and 3.1. These versions added the desktop app models Windows Forms (WinForms) and WPF, ASP.NET Blazor for building single page applications and gRPC for cross-platform, contract-based messaging. We also ad...
Coding, Cloud & Technology | [Unity - Introduction for the business developer Series This is part one of a beginner-level series about Unity, aimed at existing .NET business developers, who are interested in dipping a toe into something different.
AzUpdate: CosmosDB Free tier, ASR Update Rollup, Azure Hybrid Virtual Event, and DIY Acoustic Panels Another week comes to an end and with it comes another AzUpdate. Let's explore some of the news that happened in the Azure world this week. Azure CosmosDB Free tier This week saw the launch of a free tier within Azure CosmosDB, which can be used ...
Tip 255 - What's Azure Private Link and how can I get started? It is very important to secure all aspects of your application, including your data communications. This can be difficult as services in the cloud are often exposed to the public internet. Azure Private Link can help to secure traffic between Azure servic...
planetgeek.ch – Your source of geek knowledge Explains receiving a message from a queue, for more posts in this series go to Contents. In the previous post I showed the basic bits to send a message into a queue. But how can we get it out again? The good news is that the SDK makes it pretty simple to ...
Social Distancing and Exponential Growth A quick illustration why we are practicing extreme social distancing in our family.
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Containers Basics: Providing Persistent Storage to Containers One of the main differences you will notice when comparing containers with Virtual Machines (VMs) is that containers use an ephemeral storage by default. What that means is that containers use what we call as “scratch space” and this data is not persisted...
Microsoft France: Surfrider EU - Plastic Origins Project | CodeStories 80% of ocean plastic comes from inland sources. In this episode of CodeStories, we'll learn about the Plastic Origins project, from Surfrider Foundation Europe, which tackles inland plastic pollution by monitoring microplastic and tracking the path of pl...
How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written I've been comparing notes with people who run corporate engineering blogs and one thing that I think is curious is that it's pretty common for my personal blog to get more traffic than the entire corp eng blog for a company with a nine to ten figure valua...
Building the Azure SDK - Repository Structure The Azure SDK team generates many client libraries across multiple languages, so it should come as no surprise that we constantly think about the most efficient mechanism for storing, writing, and distributing those libraries. In an ongoing series, we’re ...
ongoing by Tim Bray · Eventing Facets What happened was, at re:Invent 2019 I gave a talk entitled Moving to Event-Driven Architecture, discussing a list of characteristics that distinguish eventing and messaging services. It was a lot of work pulling the material together and I’v...
ongoing by Tim Bray · Facet: Deduping When you fire an event into the cloud, can you be sure it’ll only come out again once? It turns out that sometimes they come out more often than they go in. This may or may not be a problem in your application. If it is, there are techniques to...
ongoing by Tim Bray · Facet: Point-to-Point vs Pub/Sub When there’s an event in the cloud, how many different receivers can receive it? There are two plausible answers: Just one, or anyone.
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JetBrains .NET Day Online 2020 - Call for Speakers - .NET Tools Blog In 2019, we held our first JetBrains .NET Day Online – a free virtual event where community speakers covered topics they are passionate about, ranging from deep technical .NET content and speakers’ experiences with specific tools and technologies to perso...
Introduction to Blazor Hosting Models We look at Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly, how you install the Visual Studio Templates and how to integrate an API through Blazor
Cloud migration: 5 common traps and how to avoid them For most organizations, migrating to the cloud involves 4 phases – opportunistic, cloud-first, ‘all-in’ and cloud-native. Find out the traps along the way.
Adding a git commit hash and Azure DevOps Build Number and Build ID to an ASP.NET website A few months back I moved my CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Development) to Azure DevOps for free. You get ...
Making a cleaner and more intentional azure-pipelines.yml for an ASP.NET Core Web App A few months back I moved my CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Development) to Azure DevOps for free. You get ...
Setting up Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 for Windows 10 & Docker In this post, we describe the steps needed to enable Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 on Windows 10, and how you can use the WSL 2 features with Docker for Windows. #Docker #dockerforwindows #Windows
Tip 254 - Use WAF to protect your web applications with Azure Front Door When you run an application on the web, it is going to be attacked. Your website will be attacked with SQL Injection attacks, Cross-site scripting attacks and every other attack in the OWASP top 10 and beyond. You need to protect your application from the...
Using Azure Service Bus with restricted access Azure Service Bus provides many ways to setup different access levels for all types of things like the bus itself, queues, topics or subscriptions. In this post some of the ways to configure the di…
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Firecracker Until now, you needed to choose between containers with fast startup times and high density, or VMs with strong hardware-virtualization-based security and workload isolation. With Firecracker, you no longer have to choose. Firecracker enables you to deplo...
Empowering digital transformation with .NET, ML and Azure Data entry automation is a huge space and has tremendous impact to many countries around the world. Raul Roa is a software engineer in the Dominican Republic who is using .NET Core and Azure to help drive the digital transformation for his country and man...
Abhishek Gupta – Medium Read writing from Abhishek Gupta on Medium. Cloud Advocate at Microsoft working on Open source, Kubernetes, Azure. Mostly using Go and Java. Every day, Abhishek Gupta and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium.
A new kind of GridView right in your console: Introducing the early preview of ConsoleGuiTools | PowerShell Yes. This is yet another post about GridViews. We love them. You love them. What’s not to like? If you’re not familiar with Out-GridView, it can be used to interactively view objects as a table allowing sorting and filtering. Many PowerShell users like to...
How to use PowerShell ISE Mode in Visual Studio Code If you are writing PowerShell code, you might have realized that there weren't really improvements to the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (PowerShell ISE) in the last couple of releases. With PowerShell becoming more popular on cross-platform ...
Build apps for free with Azure Cosmos DB Free Tier | Azure Cosmos DB Blog This blog post was co-authored by Nikisha Reyes-Grange, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure Marketing. Introducing Azure Cosmos DB Free Tier Looking to build a new app, develop and test, or run small production workloads with Azure Cosmos DB? Our new ...
My New Role as Senior Program Manager for .NET Data I recently accepted a new role at Microsoft as Senior Program Manager for .NET Data. This post explains the history behind the decision, what I'll be doing and how you can help.
Millions of tiny databases Millions of tiny databases, Brooker et al., NSDI’20 This paper is a real joy to read. It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of …
Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions - Indianapolis Business Journal The software as a service—or SaaS—market is going gangbusters.
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The tyranny of I/O and the rise of distributed systems A system that runs on a single machine is an order of magnitude simpler than one that reside on multiple machines. The complexity involved in maintaining con...
Creating storage accounts and blob containers using Azure fluent API-s Using new Azure fluent API-s to create Azure storage accounts and blob containers in code is easy, resulting in flexible and readable code.
Announcing PowerShell 7.0 | PowerShell Today, we’re happy to announce the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell 7.0! Before anything else, we’d like to thank our many, many open-source contributors for making this release possible by submitting code, tests, documentation, and issue fe...
Monitoror — Unified monitoring wallboard Monitoror is a wallboard monitoring app to monitor server status; monitor CI builds progress or even display critical values
Pricing | Kubernetes Engine Documentation | Google Cloud This page explains pricing for worker nodes and cluster management in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
Announcing PowerShell 7.0 | PowerShell Today, we’re happy to announce the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell 7.0! Before anything else, we’d like to thank our many, many open-source contributors for making this release possible by submitting code, tests, documentation, and issue fe...
Tip 253 - Use Ingress Controller to access resources in an Azure Virtual Network In a recent customer engagement, they wanted to access all the AKS services via an Azure virtual network. This customer's application is not an external facing and needs to be on a corporate network to access their resources (e.g. HR, payroll,procurement ...
Tip 252 - Securing your managed Databases in Azure Microsoft Azure provides support for a wide variety of commercial (SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance) and open source databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB). When it comes to protecting your data, Azure provides different security layers. Let's discus...
ASP.NET Core in Azure App Services' Docker Images - Part 3 - Shawn Wildermuth ASP.NET Core in Azure App Services' Docker Images - Part 3 - Shawn Wildermuth
Azure Service Fabric 7.0 Fourth Refresh Release Azure Service Fabric 7.0 Fourth refresh release which includes bug fixes, and performance enhancements for standalone and Azure environments has started rolling out to the various Azure regions. The updates for .NET SDK, Java SDK and Service Fabric Runtim...
MSSQL data and log files on Azure blob storage Keeping MSSQL data and log files on Azure blob storage is easy and beneficial. Here's how to do it and my conclusions of the experiment.
IIS Hosting for ASP .NET Core 3.1 Web Apps This is the ninth of a new series of posts on ASP .NET Core 3.1 for 2020. In this series, we’ll cover 26 topics over a span of 26 weeks from January through June 2020, titled AS…
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Model Builder Updates for ML.NET this February | .NET Blog Train image classification models in Azure, recommendation models locally in the Model Builder, and create custom machine learning models!
Episode 133 – Nick Craver: Stack Overflow to .NET Core | The 6 Figure Developer Nick is the Architecture Lead for Stack Exchange. He designs and builds very fast things in hopes of making life easier for millions of developers. His day to day job keeps him fairly busy,
How to set up a tab profile in Windows Terminal to automatically SSH into a Linux box By now I hope you've installed Windows Terminal. If not, go do that, I'll wait. It's time. You may also have customize ...
Tip 251 - Working With Azure Functions in VS Code and GitHub Azure Functions is a Serverless component from Microsoft that allows you to create event-based functions that can be dynamically scaled to meet the demand. We can work with all kinds of events such as when a file is uploaded to storage, a message appears ...
AWS is updating minimum requirements for AWS Tools for PowerShell to Windows PowerShell 3.0 and .NET Framework 4.5 | Amazon Web Services On January 14th 2020 Microsoft ended extended support for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The oldest supported Windows Server version, Windows Server 2012, comes with Windows PowerShell 3.0 and .NET Framework 4.5. The legacy variant of AWS...
Re: SMB over QUIC: Files Without the VPN yes the plan is to bring it to Azure Files too. Makes perfect sense there
microsoft-signalr - cdnjs.com - The best FOSS CDN for web related libraries to speed up your websites! microsoft-signalr - ASP.NET Core SignalR is an open-source library that simplifies adding real-time web functionality to apps. Real-time web functionality enables server-side code to push content to clients instantly. This client can also be used with the...
Introducing GitTrends: GitHub Insights iOS Android I am so excited to release GitTrends on Product Hunt today! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/gittrends-github-insights GitTrends helps you to monitor your GitHub Repositories: ✅ Connect to GitHub ✅ Monitor GitHub Repo Views ✅ Monitor GitHu...
Clojure: the Lisp that wants to spread From its humble beginnings, Clojure was always meant to be a “hosted” language. It is important to note that while the Clojure of today is definitely a tightly integrated JVM (Java Virtual Machine) language, there were always multiple implementations of C...
What's New in Visual Studio Online | Visual Studio Blog Try Docker support, edit environment settings, and more in the latest update to Visual Studio Online!
Rider 2020.1 Starts Early Access Program - .NET Tools Blog For the first 2020.1 EAP build, we didn’t set our sights on implementing any new big features or changing the world. Instead, we put a lot of effort into polishing and jazzing up the tons of existing features to make … Continue reading →
How to set up Docker within Windows System for Linux (WSL2) on Windows 10 I've written about WSL2 and it's glorious wonders many times. As its release (presumably) grows closer - as of this ...
Overview of Azure Cache for Redis - Simple Talk Caching data is one way to improve application performance. In this article, Chandra Kudumla explains a service for caching data found in Azure called Azure Cache for Redis.
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Don’t try to sanitize input. Escape output. Why you should escape output correctly, but generally not sanitize user input.
Israeli Marketing Company Exposes Contacts Database An Israeli marketing company left the authentication credentials for a database online, exposing more than 140 GB worth of names, email addresses and phone numbers.
REST Commands and Queries in VS Code - ardalis Recently in one of our great devBetter discussions, Rick Hodder (go follow him now) shared a cool extension for VS Code. Basically, it lets you turn VS Code into a REST client. Think of it like a combination of Postman and Azure Data Studio (or LinqPad or...
Azure Cost Management + Billing updates – February 2020 The theme this month is transparency. From rich Azure Hybrid Benefit and reservation reporting in a new Power BI app to a detailed breakdown of resource costs and clarity behind what "not applicable" means in the Azure portal, you won't want to miss this ...
Dependency Injection in Azure Functions with C# Twilio posts cloud communications trends, customer stories, and tips for building scaleable voice and SMS applications with Twilio's APIs.
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Authentication and the Azure SDK How do your apps identify themselves to the cloud resources you are using? This is one of the most important considerations when building a cloud-native app. Ideally, your app should run in all phases of development (dev, test, and prod, for example). W...
Power Down: Low power mode for Azure Sphere Many of the IoT devices that Azure Sphere can securely connect need to operate in power-constrained environments. We have heard from many customers who want to integrate Azure Sphere into devices powered by batteries, solar panels, and even supercapacitor...
A History of Entity Framework I recently had the honor of appearing on The 6 Figure Developer podcast. I reminisced about the history of Entity Framework and the role I’ve been blessed to play in it. Have a listen!
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020: It’s a Polyglot World of Stateless Funct... View more about this event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020
Handling Huge Traffic Spikes with Azure Functions and Cloudflare Back in 2016, I wrote a blog post about the Martin Lewis Money show featuring HIBP and how it drove an unprecedented spike of traffic to the service, ultimately knocking it offline for a brief period of time. They'd given me a heads up as apparently, that...
Netflix is pleased to announce the open-source release of our crisis management orchestration framework: Dispatch! Outline is a free service for reading and annotating news articles. We remove the clutter so you can analyze and comment on the content.
10K Request per Second: REST API with Azure SQL, Dapper and JSON In the previous article I described how easy is to create a REST API with Python and Azure SQL. But what about .NET? Would that be as easy as well? Absolutely yes: the native support to JSON offered by Azure SQL will also help a lot again. In addition to ...
It’s 2020. Is your code ready for leap day? "2020 is the start of a new decade – or does it start in 2021?" That was the debate on social media as we crossed over into the new year. There was also a lot of talk about remembering Y2K twenty years later, which inevitably led to speculation about how ...
Azure Sphere is now generally available! Good morning, At IoT in Action today, we announced that Azure Sphere is exiting its Public Preview phase and is now a GA (generally available) product. This milestone represents another important step affirming Microsoft’s commitment to provide manufact...
Episode 132 – EF and EF Core with Brice Lambson | The 6 Figure Developer Brice is a senior software engineer on the Entity Framework team at Microsoft. In his spare time, he enjoys giving back to the community through blogging and open source. Links https
Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height Andreessen-Horowitz has always been the most levelheaded of the major current year VC firms. While other firms were levering up on “cleantech” and nonsensical biotech startups that viol…
Are you reading the "What's New" in .NET docs? Did you know that every month, the docs team at Microsoft has a post for what's new in the .NET documentation? For each month there are new articles, updates to existing docs, and kudos for the community contributors. It's super easy to get involved in co...
Brief lessons on handling huge traffic spikes Earlier today, Have I been pwned (HIBP) appeared on a British TV show called The Martin Lewis Money Show. A producer had contacted me about this last week: I Just wanted to get in contact to let you know we're featuring 'have I been pwned?' on the progra...
Chipotle builds new website with .NET Core, Visual Studio Code, and TypeScript Chipotle Mexican Grill is a longtime leader and innovator in the food industry. The company is committed to cultivating a better world by serving responsibly sourced, classically cooked, real food with wholesome ingredients—and without artificial colors, ...
Last Week in AWS - AWS News Sprinkled With a Side of Snark Posts about AWS come out over sixty times a day. We filter through it to find the hidden gems and stuff worth reading--right to your inbox each Monday.
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Building String Razor Template Engine with Bare Hands (.NET Core) How ASP.NET Core Razor turns templates into assemblies and runs them
Tip 248 - Top 5 VS Code extensions for Azure Developers Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a lightweight code editor that works great for developing applications for any programming language. It is fast, it updates regularly and it is completely free! And you can extend its behavior by installing extensions. Ther...
CloudSkills.fm CloudSkills.fm is a weekly podcast with technical tips and career advice for people working with cloud-native technologies. This show is for developers, IT pros, or anyone making a career move into the cloud. Episodes will be short and to the point and wi...
I've Just Launched "Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords for Download Last August, I launched a little feature within Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) I called Pwned Passwords. This was a list of 320 million passwords from a range of different data breaches which organisations could use to better protect their own systems. How? NIS...
Episode 45 - Migrating Stack Overflow to .NET Core with Nick Craver In this episode of The .NET Core podcast we talked with Nick Craver about the on-going migration of Stack Overflow to .NET Core
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Storing IoT Data in a database One question that comes up a lot when getting started with IoT is 'How do I store all this data?'. This is an important question - IoT creates a LOT of data, some of which can be analyzed on the fly, but there are a large number of cases where you want to...
Fundamental Concepts for Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database Elastic Jobs are currently in public preview. The feature is ready and we are preparing to make it officially generally available. No whitelisting or extra steps are required to get started. In my previous post, I explained what Elastic Jobs are and w...
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Provisioning X.509 Devices for Azure IoT Hub using .NET Core This article shows how Azure device provisioning service can be used to setup an Azure IoT Hub and provision devices using X.509 certificates in an enrollment group. The certificates are created us…
Service Fabric Community Q&A 41 We are resuming our first Service Fabric Community Q&A call for 2020 beginning this month. Join us at 10am PDT on Thursday, Feb 20th to ask us any questions related to Service Fabric, Mesh, containers in Azure, etc. This month's Q&A features one se...
New optimizations boost performance in preview builds of Microsoft Edge - Microsoft Edge Blog Starting with Microsoft Edge build 81.0.389.0 on 64-bit Windows 10, we’ve enabled new toolchain optimizations that should provide a substantial performance improvement in general browsing workloads. We’ve measured an up to 13% performance improvement in t...
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Weekly Update 178 This week I'm at Microsoft Ignite "The Tour" in Sydney with Lars Klint. I've spent most of the last couple of days doing the "hallway track" (basically just wandering around and saying "hi" to people) and doing a bunch of meetings with folks here on cyber...
Azure App Configuration is now generally available | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Azure App Configuration is a managed service that helps developers centralize their application configuration and feature settings simply and securely.
February 2020 SDK Release Welcome to the February release of the Azure SDK. We have updated the following libraries: Cosmos (JavaScript only). Event Hubs (Java and JavaScript). Key Vault (Python only). Storage (Blobs, Files, and Queues across all languages). These are ready to us...
Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database – What and Why Elastic Jobs are currently in public preview. The feature is ready and we are preparing to make it officially generally available. No whitelisting or extra steps are required to get started. Elastic Jobs is a feature of Azure SQL Database that lets yo...
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Pipeline Templates: Complete Azure Pipelines Example for a Uno Project for iOS, Android and Windows - Nick's .NET Travels My last post was a bit of a long one as it covered a bunch of steps for setting up the bits and pieces required for signing an application for different platforms. In this post I just wanted to provide a complete example that shows a single multi-stage (6...
SQL Bits 2020 is happening in London: join us March 31 to April 4 - SQL Server Blog It’s that time of the year when the Microsoft Azure Data engineering team is getting ready to participate at SQL Bits 2020. Excitement for this year’s show is everywhere, as SQL Bits provides us with a unique opportunity to learn, connect, and share with ...
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Azure This Week: Azure This Week - Ignite The Tour: Sydney In this special episode of Azure This Week, Lars is in Sydney at Microsoft Ignite The Tour. He speaks to Azure experts including Troy Hunt, Christina Warren and Sonia Cuff. He also gives a flavour of what the conference is like for the 6,000 attendees ove...
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Welcome | Azure Tips and Tricks Welcome to Azure Tips and Tricks, this site is a special collection of over 230+ tips, videos, conference talks that span the entire universe of the Azure platform. The tips you'll find here are based on real-world scenarios that I've encountered (along w...
From DotNet Run to Hello World - .NET Oxford - January 2020 From ‘dotnet run’ to “Hello World” - Matt Warren Have you ever stopped to think about all the things that happen when you execute a simple .NET program? This talk will delve into the internals of the recently open-sourced .NET Core runtime, looking at w...
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Azure ESP32 Dev Kit Board and resources Want to use Azure IoT service with your Azure ESP32 Board? Eric and Tara from the Azure IoT team join Pamela on this demo heavy IoT Show episode to tell us how to use the Azure IoT C SDK port for ESP32 you can find in our new Github repo. https://github.c...
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nquinlan/Email-Intelligence Email Intelligence is a chrome extension that displays which email infrastructure provider sent an email to your Gmail account. - nquinlan/Email-Intelligence
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CertificateManager 1.0.3 Certificate Manager is a package which makes it easy to create certificates (chained and self signed) which can be used to in client server authentication and IoT Devices like Azure IoT Hub
Building an ASP.NET Core app and deploying to Azure with GitHub Actions (hopefully) Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.
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Research based on the .NET Runtime Over the last few years, I’ve come across more and more research papers based, in some way, on the ‘Common Language Runtime’ (CLR).
AWS re:Invent 2019: Beyond eleven nines: Lessons from Amazon S3 culture of durability (STG331-R1) Amazon S3 is well known for being designed for eleven nines of data durability. But durability is much more than a formula and a metric. It influences every aspect of how we design, build, deploy, and operate Amazon S3. In this session, learn about some o...
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Why are we so bad at software engineering? | www.bitlog.com Our industry's mindset grew in an environment where failure is cheap and we are incentivized to move quickly. Our processes are poorly applied when the cost of a redo is high or a redo is impossible.
Introducing Scalar: Git at scale for everyone | Azure DevOps Blog Git is a distributed version control system, so by default each Git repository has a copy of all files in the entire history. Even moderately-sized teams can create thousands of commits adding hundreds of megabytes to the repository every month. As your r...
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Rendering Particles with Compute Shaders - Mike Turitzin Overview I developed a technique to render single-pixel particles (using additive blending) with compute shaders rather than the usual fixed-function rasterization with vertex and fragment shaders. My approach runs 25-335% faster than rasterization on the...
Tinkering with client-side Blazor and the AWS SDK for .NET Being a .NET lover, a cross-platform hopeful and a JavaScript ignorant, I was immediately enthused about client-side Blazor. The promise of statically hosted web applications that run on every plat…
Designing a build system for .NET solutions with Cake - 2: The Cake build tool and convention-based builds ContentsThis is the second issue in a series around designing a build system for .NET projects The build submodule & Versioning dependenciesBuild, test and pack .NET projects by convention using CakeBuild and pack .NET applications ready for deploymen...
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The ASP.NET Core Module; Changes and Improvements over the Last 3 Years. I been receiving many questions about the ASP.NET Core Module, and I decided that it would be useful to write down some of the design decisions and motivations behind changes and improvements we made.
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Create Certificates for IdentityServer4 signing using .NET Core This article shows how to create certificates for an IdentityServer4 application to use for signing and token validation. The certificates are created using the CertificateManager nuget package. Bo…
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary « the jsomers.net blog The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you’ve never heard of, or whose sense you’re unsure of. You would never look up an ordinary word — like example, or sport, or magic — because all you’ll learn is what it means, and that ...
Cake - Home Cake is built on top of the Roslyn compiler which enables you to write your build scripts in C#.
SSW Consulting - .NET, Web, Mobile, CRM, SharePoint, Azure, Power BI, Angular, React, Office 365 and Dynamics SSW Consulting has over 25 years of Microsoft software and web development experience. We build on top of Angular, React, .NET Core, Azure, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, Office 365, Dynamics 365 CRM and SQL Server. We have software consultants located in Sydn...
Blazor Radiator - Visual Studio Marketplace This extension adds a burndown chart and a work item volume / story points total bar-chart alongside the backlog pane.
Wave Engine’s on-line glTF viewer – WaveEngine Team TL;DR: We are announcing our experimental glTF on-line viewer made with Wave Engine 3.0, powered by WebAssembly. Try the demo! http://gltf.waveengine.net
Creating Certificates for X.509 security in Azure IoT Hub using .NET Core This article shows how to create certificates in .NET Core which can be used for Azure IoT Hub. The chained certificates are created using the nuget package CertificateManager. Code: To use X.509 s…
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Exploring .NET Core Windows developers have always enjoyed the productivity boost you get with the .NET platform, tools like Entity Framework and ASP.NET, and the amazingly-powerful C# language. Now, .NET Core extends those same benefits to Linux-based systems, offering a tr...
damienbod/AspNetCoreCertificates Certificate Manager in .NET Core for creating and using X509 certificates - damienbod/AspNetCoreCertificates
Defining your cloud infrasture as code with Pulumi and .NET In this episode, Matt and Luke show Scott Hunter how to define cloud resources in .NET code with Pulumi. Pulumi https://www.pulumi.com/ Get started with Pulumi and Azure https://www.pulumi.com/docs/get-started/azure/ Azure for .NET developers https://doc...
bchavez/Bogus :card_index: A simple and sane fake data generator for C#, F#, and VB.NET. Based on and ported from the famed faker.js. - bchavez/Bogus
Postgres For Those Who Can’t Even, Part 2 – Working with Node and JSON Getting up to speed with Postgres and Node can be daunting but in this post I’ll dive into how you can easily work with both – including JSON document storage… in Postgres!
This is relevant only for multimedia apps. I have fintech systems in production... | Hacker News Thank you for this post. I read "10 Users: Split out the Database Layer" and about had an aneurysm.I also work with fintech systems built upon .NET Core and have similar experiences regarding scaling of these solutions. You can get an incredible amount of...
Hosting your own NuGet Server and Feed for build artifacts with BaGet - Scott Hanselman NuGet is the package management system underlying the .NET programming platform. Just like Ruby Gems or NPM Packages, ...
Dotnet-Boxed/Templates .NET project templates with batteries included, providing the minimum amount of code required to get you going faster. - Dotnet-Boxed/Templates
Life of a triangle - NVIDIA's logical pipeline Since the release of the ground breaking Fermi architecture almost 5 years have gone by, it might be time to refresh the principle graphics architecture beneath it.
GPU Performance for Game Artists Performance is everybody's responsibility, no matter what your role. For artists, a little knowledge of what goes on under the hood can make a big impact on a game's framerate. If you're an artist and want to understand how the GPU works and why things li...
Add Real-Time to a Java App with Azure SignalR Service Azure SignalR is a fully managed service that makes it easy to add highly-scalable real-time messaging to any application using WebSockets and other protocols. SignalR Service has integrations for ASP.NET and Azure Functions. Other backend apps can use th...
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Old CSS, new CSS / fuzzy notepad I first got into web design/development in the late 90s, and only as I type this sentence do I realize how long ago that was. And boy, it was horrendous. I mean, being able to make stuff an
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Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code | beepb00p Overview of search tools for desktop and mobile; using Emacs and Ripgrep as desktop search engine
gravitational/gravity Opinionated image-based Kubernetes packaging and management tools. - gravitational/gravity
Azure Functions runtime 3.0 is now generally available | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Azure Functions runtime version 3.0 is now available. Built on top of .NET Core 3.1, it enables you to write your function apps in new languages, such as .NET Core 3.1 and Node 12.
Microsoft Search in Bing and Office 365 ProPlus Provides Office admins with information about the extension for Microsoft Search in Bing that is installed with Office 365 ProPlus and makes Bing the default search engine for the Google Chrome web browser.
damienbod/AspNetCoreCertificates Certificate Manager in .NET Core for creating and using X509 certificates - damienbod/AspNetCoreCertificates
Dotnet-Boxed/Templates .NET project templates with batteries included, providing the minimum amount of code required to get you going faster. - Dotnet-Boxed/Templates
Invoking non-HTTP Azure Functions over HTTP to make development easier This week, I was presenting at IglooConf (Indexing and searching NuGet org with Azure Functions and Search). During one of the demos, I casually used a feature we shipped with the latest Azure Toolkit for JetBrains Rider: when the Azure Functions host is ...
Building A More Inclusive Microsoft Valuable Professional Program There was recently a thread by David Whitney about inclusion and representation in the .NET community. I suggest you read it as it gives you an idea of the diversity of thought within the .NET community. The thread spoke to me, as an Arabic developer who ...
Building Microservices with gRPC and .NET Microservices based applications consist of multiple services and are built with a variety of programming languages. Based on the business use case, you can pick the most appropriate technology to build your service. gRPC can be one of those choices. To...
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ais-dotnet/Ais.Net .NET Standard, high performance, zero allocation AIS decoder, which can process millions of AIVDM/AIVDO sentences per second on a single core. Sponsored by endjin - ais-dotnet/Ais.Net
Combatting illegal fishing with Machine Learning and Azure – for less than £10 / month - NDC London 2020 | Software Developers Conference Illegal fishing is a worldwide problem which threatens developing nations, damages marine wildlife and supports other criminal activities like human trafficking and slavery. Recently we worked with a not-for-profit who, through machine learning and comple...
yesnet0/bounty Misc bounty and vulndisc things. Contribute to yesnet0/bounty development by creating an account on GitHub.
Add Mono to the repository by akoeplinger · Pull Request #1912 · dotnet/runtime This adds the Mono runtime sources including the full history and some initial build system integration 🎉 We're planning to wire up the CI on Monday and then we'll enable Mono by default as...
Announcement: SameSite Cookie Handling and .NET Framework 4.7.2 Patch Availability on Azure App Service - Microsoft Q&A (Preview) Microsoft Q&A (Preview) is the best place to get answers to all your technical questions on Microsoft products and services
An unsecured database exposed thousands of British passports An open Amazon Web Services S3 database held passport scans, tax documents, job applications and other sensitive personal details. It has now been taken offline by Amazon
Visual Studio Live!: Training Conferences and Events for Enterprise Microsoft .NET and Azure Developers Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) is a series of training conferences for .NET developers that you can trust! Get live and remote Visual Studio and Azure training: From C# to .NET Core to Xamarin to DevOps to containers and much more, we have more than 25 ye...
Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030 - The Official Microsoft Blog The scientific consensus is clear. The world confronts an urgent carbon problem. The carbon in our atmosphere has created a blanket of gas that traps heat and is changing the world’s climate. Already, the planet’s temperature has risen by 1 degree centigr...
New year, new browser - The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview and now available for download | Windows Experience Blog A little over a year ago, we announced our intention to rebuild Microsoft Edge on the Chromium open source project with the goals of delivering better compatibility for everyone, less fragmentation…
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Building Serverless web applications with Blazor and Azure Functions In this episode, Jeff Hollan from the Azure Functions team comes to discuss the benefits of pairing Blazor webassembly applications along with Azure Functions. [01:12] - What are the benefits of Blazo
Endpoint Debugging in ASP.NET Core 3 Applications Nothing can be more frustrating than going into a situation “thinking” you know how a framework works, only to spend the next several hours pulling your hair out and stewing in a pot of unhealthy feelings. I like to consider myself an ASP.NET routing expe...
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Getting Started with the AWS SDK in .NET Core - Steve Gordon In this post we'll learn about the AWS SDK for .NET and how to set up a .NET Core project to use it. We'll also review IAM security and credential management.
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Battling Spam In Your ASP.NET Core Applications with Akismet You’ve spent the better part of a year building your site with hopes of positive community interaction. You deploy your application feeling you’ve accomplished something great. Days later, you realize that your community site has become flooded with horri...
Oracle copied Amazon’s API—was that copyright infringement? Opinion: Copying APIs is essential to competition in the software industry.
Progressive Web Apps in 2020 It’s been more than 12 years since Steve Jobs originally presented the idea of web apps “that look exactly and behave exactly like native…
Matt Warren - Performance in the .NET Runtime - Dotnetos Conference 2019 Visit our website to learn more! https://conf.dotnetos.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dotnetos/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dotnetosorg Matt is a C# dev who loves nothing more than finding and fixing performance issues. He’s worked with Azure, ...
Thousands of concurrent connections with Azure SignalR Service - Nelly Sattari & Stafford Williams As much as everyone loves having real-time applications, it is a pain to have them in high traffic websites. Scaling is a big issue which can be easily solved by using Azure's SignalR Service. How can we add real-time functionality to cloud hosted web ap...
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Matt Warren - Performance in the .NET Runtime - Dotnetos Conference 2019 Visit our website to learn more! https://conf.dotnetos.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dotnetos/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dotnetosorg Matt is a C# dev who loves nothing more than finding and fixing performance issues. He’s worked with Azure, ...
Azure Image Builder • Jamie Phillips Video is here. @Pixel_Robots and @gregor_suttie put together an Azure Advent Calendar and I agreed to do a post and video on Azure Image Builder. Azure Image Builder is Microsoft’s answer to providing a “native” way to build virtual machine images in Azur...
dotnet/BenchmarkDotNet Powerful .NET library for benchmarking. Contribute to dotnet/BenchmarkDotNet development by creating an account on GitHub.
Happy Holidays from the Windows Terminal Team! | Windows Command Line What a crazy year 2019 has been for the Windows command line! Let’s take a look at everything that has happened and where we’re going from here. Announcement at Microsoft Build On May 6th of this year, the Windows Terminal was announced at the Microsoft B...
Send MFA signin requirement to OpenID Connect server using ASP.NET Core Identity and IdentityServer4 This post adds the custom ASP.NET Core Identity, IdentityServer4 logic to check for the “acr_values” and react if a client application requests MFA for authentication. The “acr_va…
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Episode 122 – gRPC using .NET Core with Steve Gordon | The 6 Figure Developer Steve Gordon is a Pluralsight author, Microsoft MVP, senior developer and community lead, based in Brighton, UK. He works for Madgex developing and supporting their new product portfolio built
Creating Common Intermediate Language projects with .NET SDK | StrathWeb. A free flowing web tech monologue. When you compile your C#, F# or VB.NET code, which are all high-level managed languages, the relevant compiler doesn’t compile it to native code, but instead it compiles it into the Common Intermedia Language.
Building Serverless web applications with Blazor and Azure Functions Learn about Blazor https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor?WT.mc_id=ondotnet-c9-cephilli Blazor and Azure Functions for Serverless Websites https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/dotnetConf/NET-Conf-2019/B203?WT.mc_id=ondotnet-c9-cephilli In ...
Start each request on fresh ExecutionContext by benaadams · Pull Request #14146 · dotnet/aspnetcore Check with Hide Whitespace on; as indents changed. Fixes #13991 Per request allocations for Plaintext sample remains the same Allocations for 17k requests across 256 connections
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] BPF performance analysis at Netflix (OPN303-R1) Extended BPF (eBPF) is an open-source Linux technology that powers a whole new class of software: mini programs that run on events. Among its many uses, BPF can be used to create powerful performance-analysis tools capable of analyzing everything: CPUs, m...
Azure Functions 3.0 go-live release is now available | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure The go-live release for Azure Functions 3.0 is now available, so it’s now possible to build and deploy 3.0 functions in production. Functions 3.0 brings new capabilities including the ability to target .NET Core 3.1 and Node 12.
Introducing “Have I been pwned?” – aggregating accounts across website breaches I often write up analyses of the passwords disclosed in website breaches. For example, there was A brief Sony password analysis back in mid-2011 and then our local Aussie ABC earlier this year where I talked about Lousy ABC cryptography cracked in seconds...
Episode 120 – From .NET Core 3.0 to .NET 5 w/ Scott Hunter | The 6 Figure Developer Scott Hunter is Director of Program Management, .NET. He is responsible for the Microsoft's .NET platform, which includes the .NET Framework, .NET Core, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, .NET Tools,
25 Days Of Serverless: Content Collection - DEV Community 👩💻👨💻 A bookmark-worthy collection of articles from the #25DaysOfServerless challenge that runs Dec 1-25, 2019. Learn more at https://aka.ms/25daysofserverless. Tagged with azure, serverless, 25daysofserverless, azurefunctions.
Looking inside a .NET core process using windbg In this blog post,we are going to look inside of a .NET Core process using windbg. .NET CORE process footprint is as minimal as possible so with this blog post,we are going to look at a simple .net core concole app running (simplest console app with bare ...
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Data Enrichment, People Data Labs and Another 622M Email Addresses Until this month, I'd never heard of People Data Labs (PDL). I'd certainly heard of the sector they operate in - "Data Enrichment" - but I'd never heard of the company itself. I've become more familiar with this sector over recent years due to the frequen...
Service Fabric Community Q&A 40 This week brings the 40th Service Fabric Community Q&A call! Join us at 10am PDT on Thursday, Oct 17th to ask us any questions related to Service Fabric, Mesh, containers in Azure, etc. This month's Q&A features one session at 10am PDT: Nov 21st 10:0...
TomF's talks and papers. SMCANI to AVX512 - the life cycle of an instruction set presented at Handmade Seattle 2019 conference. I talk about how we went about creating the 512-bit SIMD extensions to the 80x86 instruction set - starting from its inception as a research project, go...
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dapr/dapr Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge. - dapr/dapr
.NET for Apache Spark™ | Big data analytics .NET for Apache Spark™ provides C# and F# language bindings for the Apache Spark distributed data analytics engine. Supported on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
[REPEAT 1] Developing serverless .NET Core on AWS In this demonstration-heavy session, we highlight the latest techniques, tools, and libraries for developing with .NET Core on AWS. The focus is on serverless applications with AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, but the techniques are broadly relevant. Learn abo...
Microsoft Sends a New Kind of AI Processor Into the Cloud An innovative chip from Graphcore could push artificial intelligence applications to greater heights.
TimeZoneNotFoundException in Alpine Based Docker Images - Steve Gordon In this post, we explore the cause of a TimeZoneNotFoundException in a .NET Core application, running on .NET Core 3.0 in an Alpine Linux Docker container
Building Modern Cloud Applications using Pulumi and .NET Core | .NET Blog This is a guest post from the Pulumi team. Pulumi is an open source infrastructure as code tool that helps developers and infrastructure teams work better together to create, deploy, and manage cloud applications using their favorite languages. For more i...
cradle77/Blazor.Msal Sample implementation for MSAL in Blazor. Contribute to cradle77/Blazor.Msal development by creating an account on GitHub.
Kubernetes Learning Path v2.0 Kubernetes is taking the app development world by storm. By 2022, more than 75% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production.* Kubernetes is shaping the future of app development and management—and Microsoft wants ...
dotnet/org-policy This repo contains tools and tracks policy violations for the dotnet org. - dotnet/org-policy
.NET Core with Jupyter Notebooks - Available today | Preview 1 | .NET Blog Jupyter Notebook with .NET core is here! You can now write C# and F# code in a Jupyter notebook. Create your .NET Jupyter notebook today.
New version of Durable Functions available now | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Announcing the general availability of the version 2.0 of Durable Functions, the extension of the Azure Functions runtime that enables stateful functions and workflow orchestrations in a serverless environment.
Secure your Custom Domains at no cost with App Service Managed Certificates (preview) | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Excerpt: One of the most highly requested features for App Service for free Transport Layer Security (TLS) is now in preview! You can secure custom domains for your web apps with App Service Managed Certificates.
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normj/ServerlessTODOListTutorial A tutorial for building AWS Serverless applications with .NET Core. - normj/ServerlessTODOListTutorial
dapr/dapr Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge. - dapr/dapr
Learn all about Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), Part 2 | Azure Friday Aman Bhardwaj and Yaron Schneider join Scott Hanselman to talk about the actor model of Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr). Dapr is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, microservice stateless and state...
Learn all about Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), Part 1 | Azure Friday Aman Bhardwaj and Yaron Schneider join Scott Hanselman to talk about the core concepts of Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr). Dapr is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, microservice stateless and sta...
cr.yp.to: 2019.10.24: Why EdDSA held up better than ECDSA against Minerva "Minerva attack can recover private keys from smart cards, cryptographic libraries", says the ZDNet headline. "The Czech team found a problem in the ECDSA and EdDSA algorithms used by the Atmel Toolbox crypto library to sign cryptographic operations on At...
Research based on the .NET Runtime Over the last few years, I’ve come across more and more research papers based, in some way, on the ‘Common Language Runtime’ (CLR).
BenchmarkDotNet v0.12.0 | BenchmarkDotNet It's been several months since our last release, but we have been working hard and have some new features for you!
dotnet/org-policy This repo contains tools and tracks policy violations for the dotnet org. - dotnet/org-policy
trailofbits/algo Set up a personal VPN in the cloud. Contribute to trailofbits/algo development by creating an account on GitHub.
ASP.NET Blog | Upcoming SameSite Cookie Changes in ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core Breaking changes to ASP.NET SameSite Cookie behavior.
Mssql extension for Visual Studio Code now has Object Explorer and IntelliCode - SQL Server Blog Today we’re introducing a new release for the mssql extension for Visual Studio Code which is now available! The mssql extension for Visual Studio Code is the official SQL Server extension that supports connections to SQL Server and rich editing experienc...
Running .NET Core global tools in non-sdk Docker images In this post I describe how you can avoid the dependencies of global tools on the .NET Core SDK and runtime by containerising them using Docker.
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Announcing Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), an open source project to make it easier for every developer to build microservice applications - Open Source Blog Dapr enables all developers using any language and any framework to easily build portable microservices applications.
The Cloud Native Show - LIVE: Ep. 1 Cloud Native Show Live Episode #1 with Shayne and Glenn. They talk about Cloud Native development and build out a weather API application. First, they'll show you how to build an API with configuration and building an Azure DevOps pipeline. That pipeline ...
Office 365 network attacks - Gaining access to emails and files via an insecure Reply URL One of the main powers of Office 365 is the tight integration between all the online applications. At the same time this is a risk since those applications have access to other elements such as emails in Outlook or files on SharePoint/Onedrive. This means...
HashiCorp Nomad on AWS - Quick Start Learn about the Quick Start architecture and details for deploying HashiCorp Nomad in the AWS Cloud.
AWS’ sponsorship of the Rust project | Amazon Web Services We’re really excited to announce that AWS is sponsoring the Rust programming language! Rust is designed for writing and maintaining fast, reliable, and efficient code. It has seen considerable uptake since its first stable release four years ago, with com...
.NET Core 3.0 Availability on App Service · Issue #118 · Azure/app-service-announcements-discussions Discussion for .NET Core 3.0 Availability on App Service.
The Insecure Elephant in the Room - CA Security Council [Update: October 16, 2019] The purpose of this article The purpose of this article is to demonstrate why I believe browser-based UI for website identity can make the web safer for everyone. I explain in great detail, the reasons why the UI and UX didn’t w...
The Cloud Native Show | Channel 9 Follow Shayne as he explores Microsoft campus to get the definition (and more) straight from engineers and product teams. Subscribe to the show! http://aka.ms/cloudnativeshow
ASP.NET Core Performance Best Practices Tips for increasing performance in ASP.NET Core apps and avoiding common performance problems.
Packaging CLI programs into Docker images to avoid dependency hell In this post I show how to create a Docker image containing your favourite CLI tool, and a helper script for invoking it. I demonstrate with the AWS CLI.
Use the Azure Application Insights Profiler settings pane - Azure Monitor See Profiler status and start profiling sessions
.NET Core 3.0 Availability on App Service · Issue #204 · Azure/app-service-announcements .NET Core 3.0 deployment on App Service Windows has started. We expect global deployment to complete by October 11th. We'll update this announcement to notify of deployment completion or if the...
Don’t use Azure Functions as a web application I know, I know. That title is probably a bit too harsh and opinionated. But it got your attention, right?
String-based enums · Issue #2849 · dotnet/csharplang We've noticed a trend, especially in cloud services, that there is a need for extensible enums. While enums can in principle be extended by casting any int to the enum, it has the risk for conf...
v5.7 Release Notes Ordinarily we’d have a longer release cadence in between releases with more features, but with the recent release of .NET Core 3 we’ve cut this release cycle short so we can release a version of ServiceStack compatible with .NET Core 3+. Other than that t...
Robots.txt Middleware For ASP.NET Core As a web developer, it’s important to remind ourselves that we push our work onto the internet for the world to see. Our development team utilizes Windows Azure for many environments, and all those environments need to be publicly accessible. There are wa...
Your Own Serverless Request Bin with Azure Functions Deploy your own Serverless Request Bin with Azure Functions so you can inspect HTTP requests in a secure and cost effective manner.
.NET Conf 2019 | Channel 9 .NET Conf is a FREE, 3 day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft. This year .NET Core 3.0 will launch at .NET Conf 2019! Come celebrate and learn about the new relea
.NET Community Standups | Streaming live each week These weekly live shows, hosted by the .NET team, are casual sessions full of community content, demos, Q&A, and discussions around what's happening in .NET.
.NET Application Architecture Guides Free e-books and practical advice for developing for web, desktop, mobile, and microservices with Docker. Learn how to migrate existing .NET apps to the cloud.
davidfowl/BedrockFramework High performance, low level networking APIs for building custom servers and clients. - davidfowl/BedrockFramework
ASP.NET Blog | Setting HTTP header attributes to enable Azure authentication/authorization using HTTPRepl Posted on behalf of Ahmed Metwally The HTTP Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) is a lightweight, cross-platform command-line tool that’s supported everywhere .NET Core is supported. It’s used for making HTTP requests to test ASP.NET Core web APIs and view th...
Test web APIs with the HTTP REPL Learn how to use the HTTP REPL .NET Core Global Tool to browse and test an ASP.NET Core web API.
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AWS Joins the .NET Foundation | Amazon Web Services Fred Wurden, General Manager of AWS Windows and Enterprise and Norm Johanson, Senior Software Dev Engineer, AWS SDKs and Tools We’re excited to announce today that AWS is joining the .NET Foundation as a corporate sponsor. AWS has a long-standing commitme...
dotnet-presentations/aspnetcore-app-workshop This workshop will teach you ASP.NET Core by building a complete conference management website from scratch. - dotnet-presentations/aspnetcore-app-workshop
davidfowl/BedrockFramework High performance, low level networking APIs for building custom servers and clients. - davidfowl/BedrockFramework
Nick Craver - Why you should wait on upgrading to .Net 4.6 Update (August 11th): A patch for this bug has been released by Microsoft. Here’s their update to the advisory: We released an updated version of RyuJIT tod...
BUG: Json.NET converter for IPAddress does not work in .NET Core 3.0 specifically · Issue #30873 · dotnet/runtime Using Json.NET converters within the .NET Core 3.0 runtime fails. However in .NET Core 2.2 or .NET Framework 4.8 it works fine. It seems like some "Type" is not coming through correctly. ...
September 10, 2019—KB4515384 (OS Build 18362.356) Learn more about update KB4515384, including improvements and fixes, any known issues, and how to get the update.
awslabs/s2n s2n : an implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols. Contribute to awslabs/s2n development by creating an account on GitHub.
Roundup #53: .NET Core 3 Preview 9, Improved NuGet Search, Prefer ValueTask to Task, .NET Core API Performance - CodeOpinion Here are the things that caught my eye recently in .NET. I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week. Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 9 Today, we’re announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 9. Just like...
Goodbye XSS Auditor Chrome has retired the XSS Auditor because of problems with bypasses and security. This article describes how the Auditor worked, how it was bypassed and how it began. It examines the XSS Auditor’s weaknesses and the vulnerabilities it caused. Finally, it...
Infrastructure in C# using the Azure Management SDK • Jamie Phillips Infrastructure in C# using the Azure Management SDK I have wanted to this post for some time, and I thought today would be the day. If you have been a reader of my blog, then you would know that I am an advocate of using alternatives to Azure ARM template...
Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 9 | .NET Blog Today, we’re announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 9. Just like with Preview 8, we’ve focused on polishing .NET Core 3.0 for a final release and aren’t adding new features. If these final builds seem less exciting than earlier previews, that’s by design.
What is Dark? Dark is a holistic language, editor, and infrastructure, for building backend web services. Our goal is to make coding 100x easier.
SQL Server Retries with Dapper and Polly Retryable SQL Server exceptions, that lovely little library called Polly, and Dapper (or your favorite database access library)
Publishing to Azure Container Registry using Azure Pipelines In this post, I show how to automate the building of a Docker image using Azure Pipelines. As well as how to automatically publish the image to an Azure Container Registry.
Using KeyVault References to Read Key Vault Secrets - Petri How to use Key Vault References in Azure App Services for the most flexible and secure approach to reading sensitive configuration settings.
How the .NET Team uses Azure Pipelines to produce Docker Images | .NET Blog Producing Docker images for .NET might not seem like that big of a deal. Once you’ve got a Dockerfile defined, just run “docker build“ and “docker push“ and you’re done, right? Then just rinse and repeat when new versions of .NET are released and that s...
Imperva Security Update | Imperva Hi everyone, Please find below a detailed update on the security incident from Kunal Anand, our Chief Technology Officer. From the moment we discovered this incident, we established and have held ourselves to the following key principles: To do the right...
Observability — A 3-Year Retrospective - The New Stack A summary of the observability movement over the past three years.
Containerising a Blazor WebAssembly App In this post, I show how to containerise a Blazor WebAssembly App using Docker. Highlighting the different requirements when compared to Blazor Server Apps.
New and improved NuGet Search is here! | The NuGet Blog % We are excited to announce the new and improved search on NuGet.org leveraging Azure Search. Try the new search today!
Announcing pricing decrease for Azure App Service on the Premium plan | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure We are happy to announce a price reduction of an average of 35% for Linux App Service on the Premium v2 plan (pricing may vary by regional meters). This price reduction makes the decision point between hosting on a Standard App Service plan or a Premium v...
natemcmaster/LetsEncrypt ASP.NET Core integration for free HTTPS certificates from https://letsencrypt.org - natemcmaster/LetsEncrypt
Getting Started with GitHub Actions in Visual Studio | Visual Studio Blog GitHub Actions uses a clean new syntax for expressing workflows based on YAML scripts—so you can edit, reuse, share, and fork them like code. By including actions in your repositories, others would be able to easily test and build projects using the same ...
Secure an ASP.NET Core web app with the Identity framework - Learn Add authentication and authorization to an ASP.NET Core web app using the Identity framework.
Blazor Tips and Tricks In this episode, Robert is joined by Ed Charbeneau. Ed was on Toolbox last fall introducing us to Blazor, a framework for building interactive client-side web UI using C# instead of JavaScript. Ed ret
Sign-in and sync with work or school accounts in Microsoft Edge Insider builds - Microsoft Edge Blog A top piece of feedback we’ve heard from Microsoft Edge Insiders is that you want to be able to roam your settings and browsing data across your work or school accounts in Microsoft Edge. Today, we…
Entity Framework Core in Action An expertly written guide to EF Core—quite possibly the only reference you’ll ever need.
Containerising a Blazor Server App In this post, I give an introduction to Docker and some of its key concepts. Then show you how to containerise a Blazor Server App using a dockerfile.
Azure DevOps Podcast: Mads Torgersen on the Latest in C# - Episode 49 Today’s guest is Mads Torgerson, the lead designer and program manager of the C# programming language. He has been with Microsoft for 14 years. And prior to that, Mads was a professor and also contributed to a language starting with J. In this week...
Episode 105 – Feature Management with Andrew Lock | The 6 Figure Developer Andrew is a full-time developer, working predominantly in full stack ASP.NET development in Devon, UK. He's a Microsoft MVP, C# lover, and blogger with a focus on ASP.NET. and Author of ASP.NET
Find solutions faster by analyzing crash dumps in Visual Studio | Visual Studio Blog When unexpected crashes occur in your managed application you are often left with little evidence of the issue; capturing and analyzing memory dumps may be your last best option. Thankfully Visual Studio is a great tool for analyzing your apps memory dump...
Script #Script is a simple, fast, highly versatile and embeddable scripting language for .NET Core and .NET Apps that utilizes a familiar JavaScript inspired expressive Syntax to enable dynamic scripting of .NET Apps via controlled access to pl...
Securing an Azure App Service Website under SSL in minutes with Let's Encrypt - Scott Hanselman Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority. That means you can get free SSL certs and change ...
WinDbg #2 - The blocked async – Gabriel Weyer – A somewhat technical blog Troubleshoot blocked async with WinDbg.
Announcing the preview of GitHub Actions for Azure On Thursday, August 8, 2019, GitHub announced the preview of GitHub Actions with support for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). Actions makes it possible to create simple, yet powerful pipelines and automate software compilation and d...
Cloud Native Show: What’s Cloud Native, Really? Get the definition from the engineers on campus up close and personal on the Cloud Native Show. In our Pilot episode, follow Shayne as he explores the Microsoft campus to have Cloud Native explained to him by Distinguished Engineer, Brendan Burns. For mor...
Azure SDK August 2019 preview and a dive into consistency The second previews of Azure SDKs which follow the latest Azure API Guidelines and Patterns are now available (.Net, Java, JavaScript, Python). These previews contain bug fixes, new features, and additional work towards guidelines adherence.
ASP.NET Blog | Azure SignalR Service now supports Event Grid! We just released a new feature which enables Azure SignalR Service to publish connection events to Azure Event Grid. Check out this blog post to learn how it works and how to use it.
Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 | .NET Blog Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8. Just like with Preview 7, we’ve focused on polishing .NET Core 3.0 for a final release and are not adding new features. If these final previews seem anti-climatic, that’s by design. Download .NET Core 3.0 ...
What is Cloud Native, Really? Get the definition from the engineers on campus up close and personal on the Cloud Native Show. In our Pilot episode, follow Shayne as he explores the Microsoft campus to have Cloud Native explained t
Popups: 10 Problematic Trends and Alternatives Whether modal or not, most overlays appear at the wrong time, interrupt users during critical tasks, use poor language, and contribute to user disorientation.
Troy Hunt Hi, I'm Troy Hunt, I write this blog, run "Have I Been Pwned" and am a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP who travels the world speaking at events and training technology professionals
Roundup #51: .NET Core 3.0 launches at .NET Conf, .NET Standard adoption, Nullable Reference Types, Cake on Linux, Logging in ASPNET Core - CodeOpinion Here are the things that caught my eye recently in .NET. I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week. Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. .NET Core 3.0 launches at .NET Conf .NET Conf is a FREE, 3 day virtual developer event co-org...
Update on .NET Standard adoption | .NET Blog It’s about two years ago that I announced .NET Standard 2.0. Since then we’ve been working hard to increase the set of .NET Standard-based libraries for .NET. This includes many of the BCL components, such as the Windows Compatibility Pack, but also other...
Pwnie Awards The Right Honorable Pwnies Judiciary Committee does herewith set forth the following 2019 PWNIES AWARD NOMINATIONS for your perusal and the enablement of the SACRED ANNUAL PWNIES VOTING CEREMONY (candles and Eyes Wide Shut masks not provided).
Windows Terminal Preview v0.3 Release | Windows Command Line Windows Terminal Preview v0.3 has been published to the Microsoft Store! If you have previously installed the Terminal from the Store, you will receive this update automatically. If you’ve not yet installed Terminal from the Microsoft Store, now would be ...
Swift Client for the Asp.NET Core version of SignalR – Part 2: Beyond the Basics In the previous post we looked at some basic usage of the Swift SignalR Client. This was enough to get started but far from enough for any real-world application. In this post we will look at featu…
Fixing ASP.NET Core’s UseStatusCodePages Middleware Here at RIMdev, we are unapologetic about our love for static websites. Folks, static sites are the future! That said, there are times we need a little dynamic in our lives. For our documentation site, we generate most of the content using Hugo and contro...
Fast and flexible observability with canonical log lines Canonical log lines are a lightweight, flexible, and technology-agnostic technique for observability that are powerful and easy to implement.
Here’s what’s in the brand-new Unity 2019.2 - Unity Technologies Blog We have over 1000 developers dedicated to extending and improving Unity for you. In this release, you get more than 170 new features and enhancements for artists, designers, and programmers. We’ve updated ProBuilder, Shader Graph, 2D Animation, Burst Comp...
Streaming Electron for fun and profit How we used Azure, Electron, and WebRTC to better enable productivity on low-powered devices.
Demo: Minecraft Earth at Microsoft Inspire 2019 Connecting the real world to Minecraft using Azure Spatial Anchors. With Minecraft Earth there will be living, breathing experiences anchored all over your neighborhood. When you and your friends play together, everyone can see the worlds you’ve built. Th...
FBI Issues Warning on ‘Secure’ Websites Used For Phishing FBI issued a public service announcement regarding TLS-secured websites being actively used by malicious actors in phishing campaigns to trick users into trusting attacker-controlled sites and handing over sensitive personal information.
Xamarin Developer Summit 2019 | Channel 9 About #XamDevSummit Xamarin Dev Summit aims to be the premiere Community-Run, Cross-platform, Mobile Developer Conference in North America. Join enthusiasts, professionals, and companies who share you
Share Packages Publicly - Azure Artifacts Use Azure Artifacts to share NuGet, npm, Maven, or Python packages with anonymous users in with public feeds
Fun and entertaining plugins for Rider - .NET Tools Blog Rider’s ecosystem has many plugins covering a multitude of categories, including really fun ones. We’ve highlighted several plugins on this blog previously, but none specifically for the “fun stuff” category – apart from maybe Power Mode II and Nyan Progr...
Ensuring customer success: Introducing the Azure Migration Program | Azure blog and updates | Microsoft Azure Last July, I shared our approach to helping customers migrate to Azure. Today, we are bringing together a best practice-based, holistic experience for migrating existing applications and systems to Azure.
Fixing Random, part 39 Let’s sum up the last few episodes: Suppose we have a distribution of doubles, p, and a function f from double to double. We often want to answer the question “what is the average value…
psuter.net Elements on web pages are mostly side-by-side, or above and under each other. Occasionally however, a design calls for two or more elements to overlap. Familiar examples include unfolding navigation menus, preview panes when hovering a link, unhelpful ban...
Mark Henderson from Stack Overflow shares his experience on being an SRE Mark Henderson has been a Site Reliability Engineer at Stack Overflow since 2015. Before this he worked as the sole systems administrator at a small software company in Sydney, Australia. These days, he lives in South Australia and works from home with hi...
facebook/hermes Hermes is a small and lightweight JavaScript engine optimized for running React Native on Android. - facebook/hermes
Xamarin Developer Summit - Day 2 Join us for Day 2 of the Xamarin Developer Summit live from Houston, Texas! We will be live streaming throughout the entire day. See a full schedule at: https://xamarindevelopersummit.com/schedule Schedule ( all in Central Time Zone (Houston, Texas)): 8...
Azure/azure-functions-durable-extension Durable Task Framework extension for Azure Functions - Azure/azure-functions-durable-extension
What's Deno, and how is it different from Node.js? - LogRocket Blog Node.js is a great server-side JavaScript runtime, but it has inherent issues. Learn what Deno is and how it aims to fix the deficiencies in Node.
Xamarin Developer Summit Live Streams! | Xamarin Blog Xamarin Developer Summit in Houston, TX. is full of Xamarin sessions/workshops; Enjoy the conference remotely through Xamarin Live broadcasts!
Previewing Azure SDKs following new Azure SDK API Standards Today we’re happy to share a new set of libraries for working with Azure Storage, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Key Vault, and Azure Event Hubs in Java, Python, JavaScript or TypeScript, and .NET. These libraries provide access to new service features, and repr...
Documentation - Azure SignalR Service Build and scale real-time web app easily in serverless or server mode. Based on WebSocket supporting broad range of languages and frameworks.
liveBook · Manning liveBooks are enhanced books. They add narration, interactive exercises, code execution, and other features to eBooks.
How we integrate Rust with C# Seq is a log server that's built using a few programming languages; we have a storage engine called Flare written in Rust, and a server application written in C#. Our language stack is something I've talked about previously. Between Rust and C# we have a...
Advanced Azure App Services - K. Scott Allen You'll find many introductions showing you how to use Azure App Services, so this talk will give you the inside scoop on the real world tips, tricks, and troubles you'll see when moving enterprise projects into App Services. We will discuss best practice...
Senior DevOps Engineer - Raygun Raygun’s cloud-based platform and tools enable software development organisations and teams to deliver exceptional value to businesses, and exceptional experiences to customers. Raygun helps developers stay in front of application development and ...
gothinkster/realworld "The mother of all demo apps" — Exemplary fullstack Medium.com clone powered by React, Angular, Node, Django, and many more 🏅 - gothinkster/realworld
[Discussion] SignalR JavaScript client changing package name to @microsoft/signalr · Issue #11637 · dotnet/aspnetcore In 3.0.0-preview7, the SignalR JavaScript client will change from being @aspnet/signalr to @microsoft/signalr. We are doing this to reflect the fact that SignalR is useful in more than just ASP.NET...
Azure SignalR Service with Xamarin.Forms - Xamarin Get started with Azure SignalR Service and Azure Functions with Xamarin.Forms
What’s new for the .NET Native Compiler and Runtime in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 | .NET Blog Last week we released an update to the Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Universal Windows Apps (UWA). The release includes improvements across the libraries, runtime, and compiler. This means that development is faster and applications will be more responsive...
Herding Code 238: Martin Beeby on AWS for .NET Developers – Herding Code Download / Listen: Herding Code 238: Martin Beeby on AWS for .NET Developers
Proving security at scale with automated reasoning - All Things Distributed AWS applies formal verification techniques in innovative ways to cloud security and compliance.
YAML-defined CI/CD for ASP .NET Core This is the twenty-fifth of a series of posts on ASP .NET Core in 2019. In this series, we’ll cover 26 topics over a span of 26 weeks from January through June 2019, titled A-Z of ASP .NET Core! A…
How to host and manage an entire private certificate infrastructure in AWS | Amazon Web Services AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now offers the option for managing online root CAs and a full online PKI hierarchy. You can now host and manage your organization’s entire private certificate infrastructure in AWS. Supporti...
Get Windows Terminal (Preview) - Microsoft Store Download this app from Microsoft Store for Windows 10. See screenshots, read the latest customer reviews, and compare ratings for Windows Terminal (Preview).
The Peak-Performance-Percentage Analysis Method for Optimizing Any GPU Workload | NVIDIA Developer Blog Figuring out how to reduce the GPU frame time of a rendering application on PC is challenging for even the most experienced PC game developers. In this blog post, we describe a performance triage…
You can now download the new Open Source Windows Terminal - Scott Hanselman Last month Microsoft announced a new open source Windows Terminal! It's up at https://github.com/microsoft/Terminal and ...
Building Messaging Endpoints in Azure - Evaluating the Landscape Posts in this series: Evaluating the Landscape A Generic Host Azure WebJobs Azure Container Instances Azure Functions When looking at moving traditional on-prem solutions to the cloud, I try as much as possible to avoid any kind of lift-and-shift strateg...
ASP.NET Blog | Forwarded Headers Middleware Updates in .NET Core 3.0 preview 6 With the ASP.NET Core 2.1 release, we included UseHsts and UseHttpRedirection by default. These methods put a site into an infinite loop if deployed to an Azure Linux App Service, Azure Linux virtual machine (VM), or behind any other reverse proxy besides...
Announcing the Visual Studio Code Installer for Java | Java at Microsoft It’s been almost 3 years since the first Java language server was developed during a hackathon in a small conference room at Microsoft’s Zurich office with people from Red Hat, IBM, Codenvy and Microsoft, which later became one of the most popular extensi...
Running RavenDB on burstable cloud instances - Ayende @ Rahien One of the silent features of people moving to the cloud is that it make it the relation between performance and $$$ costs evident. In your on data center, i...
Building hybrid applications with the WebView2 developer preview - Microsoft Edge Blog Last month at Build, we introduced the new WebView2 coming to Windows, powered by the upcoming Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. Today, we’re releasing a new update to the WebView2 SDK, and with it we…
The Evolving Infrastructure of .NET Core | .NET Blog With .NET Core 3.0 Preview 6 out the door, we thought it would be useful to take a brief look at the history of our infrastructure systems and the significant improvements that have been made in the last year or so.
Server-side Blazor in .NET Core 3.0 In this episode, Shayne Boyer sits down with Daniel Roth to get an understanding of what Blazor is and what benefits does it bring to the table for building web applications [00:15] - What is Server-s
Social Media Thread-Hijacking is Nothing More Than Targeted Spam I have a vehement dislike of spam. Right there, that's something you and I have in common because I'm yet to meet a person who says "well actually, I find those Viagra emails I receive every day kinda useful". We get bombarded by spam on a daily...
Modernizing WCF Services with containers and Visual Studio There are a number of reasons for moving long-standing .NET Framework applications like WCF, and ASP.NET Webforms to containers and then into containers or "modernizing legacy heritage apps". DevOps - Once the application is set up in a contain...
I wanna go fast: HTTPS' massive speed advantage I tweeted this the other day, and the internet was not pleased: HTTPS is slow. No - wait - is it HTTP that's slow?! https://t.co/T49GG7oCaK pic.twitter.com/cfnYOpXMWc — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 8, 2016 In fact, a bunch of the internet was pre...
Certificate Authentication in ASP.NET Core 3.1 This article shows how Certificate Authentication can be implemented in ASP.NET Core 3.1. In this example, a shared self signed certificate is used to authenticate one application calling an API on…
Explore Microsoft open source projects, releases and information - opensource.microsoft.com Whether you’re a seasoned open source developer or looking to make your first ever open source contribution Microsoft has many open source projects seeking new contributors. Here are a few to get started:
Herding Code 236: Will Green on Going Serverless With AWS – Herding Code Download / Listen: Herding Code 236: Will Green on Going Serverless With AWS
Prerendering a Client-side Blazor Application In this post, I show how you can setup your client-side Blazor application for prerendering by using a server host project.
Introducing Microsoft.FeatureManagement: Adding feature flags to an ASP.NET Core app - Part 1 In this post I give a brief introduction to the preview Microsoft.FeatureManagement library and how to use it in an ASP.NET Core app
devblackops/Terminal-Icons A PowerShell module to show file and folder icons in the terminal - devblackops/Terminal-Icons
Microsoft Wants More Security Researchers to Hack Into Its Cloud As Microsoft works on cloud security, it’s looking to attract `White Hat’ hackers with rewards and legal guarantees
Google Cloud Status Dashboard This page provides status information on the services that are part of Google Cloud Platform. Check back here to view the current status of the services listed below. If you are experiencing an issue not listed here, please contact Support...
Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score An experiment that proves that automatic accessibility testing is only a first step and that manual testing is vital.
Enpass Release Notes for iOS | Enpass Enpass Release Notes for iOS Version 6.3.2 Release Date December 20, 2019 Fixes: Better visibility of passwords in the dark theme. Resolved a few crashes
.NET R&D Digest (May, 2019) Here is the May, 2019 issue of .NET R&D Digest. Besides .NET related topic it also includes a bit about programming languages, web, Windows and quantum computing. Enjoy!
Download .NET Core (Linux, macOS, and Windows) Official .NET Core downloads for Linux, macOS, and Windows. .NET Core is a cross-platform version of .NET, for building apps that run on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Validating the user password selection in Azure AD B2C by invoking Troy Hunt’s “Pwned Passwords”… I recently gave a presentation on Azure AD B2C custom policies.
Will it cluster? k3s on your Raspberry Pi Join me as I test-drive the smallest ever Kubernetes distribution k3s. Find out how this runs on Raspberry Pi compared to kubeadm with Docker.
Herding Code – A technology podcast with Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scott Koon and Jon Galloway Download / Listen: Herding Code 239: Jerome Laban on Uno Platform
Spying on .NET Garbage Collector with .NET Core EventPipes This post shows how to use .NET Core EventPipes to build Garbage Collector logs. The emitted raw CLR events are described in details.
Spying on .NET Garbage Collector with .NET Core EventPipes This post shows how to use .NET Core EventPipes to build Garbage Collector logs. The emitted raw CLR events are described in details.
RehanSaeed/Schema.NET Schema.org objects turned into strongly typed C# POCO classes for use in .NET. All classes can be serialized into JSON/JSON-LD and XML, typically used to represent structured data in the head secti...
GitHub Enterprise - The best way to build and ship software The power of GitHub's social coding for your own workgroup. Pricing, tour and more.
Creating a git repo with Azure Repos and trying out Git LFS In this post I show how to create a new Git repo on Azure Repos, how to install Git LFS locally, and host to enable Git LFS in your repositories
We're Baking Have I Been Pwned into Firefox and 1Password Pretty much every day, I get a reminder from someone about how little people know about their exposure in data breaches. Often, it's after someone has searched Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and found themselves pwned somewhere or other. Frequently, it's some l...
spboyer/dotnet-azure A .NET Core global tool to deploy an application to Azure in one command - spboyer/dotnet-azure
SMS for 2FA: What Are Your Security Options? - Authy Two-factor authentication is about using something in addition to your username and password for authentication. That “something” falls into three main categories, something you know (i.e. your social security number), something you have (i.e. a cell phon...
Creating Strings with No Allocation Overhead Using String.Create - Steve Gordon In this post, we'll explore the string.Create method which is used to create strings in high-performance scenarios by avoiding heap allocations and copying.
Updating Microsoft Account Logins in ASP.NET Core with OpenID Connect and Azure Active Directory This article shows how to implement an Azure Active Directory login for an ASP.NET Core application. The Microsoft identity platform (v2.0) is now Open ID Connect certified and the Microsoft Accoun…
Removal of the 16-character limit for passwords in Azure AD Howdy folks, Many of you have been reminding us that we still have a 16-character password limit for accounts created in Azure AD. While our on-premises Windows AD allows longer passwords and passphrases, we previously didn’t have support for this for ...
The Urlist — An application study in Serverless and Azure Today we pleased to announce that we are releasing a project called “The Urlist”. You can access it starting today at theurlist.com.
Introducing Oak, a Free and Open Certificate Transparency Log - Let's Encrypt - Free SSL/TLS Certificates Update: Feb. 5 2020 The Let’s Encrypt CT logs are now included in approved log lists and are usable by all publicly-trusted certificate authorities. Today we are announcing a new Certificate Transparency log called Oak. The Oak log will be operated by Le...
Introducing the new Microsoft.Data.SqlClient | .NET Blog This post was written by Vicky Harp, Program Manager on SqlClient and SQL Server Tools. Those of you who have been following .NET development closely have very likely seen Scott Hunter’s latest blog post, .NET Core is the Future of .NET.
Summarizing Build 2019 + SignalR Service for ASP .NET (Core) Developers This is the nineteenth of a series of posts on ASP .NET Core in 2019. In this series, we’ll cover 26 topics over a span of 26 weeks from January through June 2019, titled A-Z of ASP .NET Core! A –…
Hello AzureCasts Burke Holland and I created a site with short, RailsCasts-style videos devoted to solving problems for people using Azure. It’s called AzureCasts.
Herding Code 232: Scott Koon on getting out of Tech, GitHub Package Registry, Build 2019 Recap – Herding Code
New Azure Machine Learning updates simplify and accelerate the ML lifecycle With the exponential rise of data, we are undergoing a technology transformation, as organizations realize the need for insights driven decisions. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies can help harness this data to drive real...
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Blazor Bites Updated and Build 2019 Blazor Roundup In this post, I cover the recent updates to the Blazor Bites series. As well as a roundup of all the Blazor news and sessions from Build 2019.
Signing into Azure DevOps using your GitHub credentials | Azure DevOps Blog Across all of Microsoft, we are focusing on empowering developers to build better apps, faster. One way we are accomplishing that is by providing a range of products and services covering all stages of the software development lifecycle. This includes IDE...
What’s new in Microsoft 365 user management for April 2019 We’ve updated quite a few features in user management in the Microsoft 365 admin center in April. These updates will help make completing your day to day tasks more efficient, and we’re continuing to improve these core experiences over the next few months...
Use dependency injection in .NET Azure Functions Learn how to use dependency injection for registering and using services in .NET functions
Serverless web apps with Blazor Azure Functions and Azure Storage - THR2003 Blazor enables you to write a full stack web application in C# and WebAssembly. Azure Functions let you run serverless compute in the cloud. See how you can combine the best of both worlds to create a fully serverless full stack C# web application for p...
.NET Platform Overview and Roadmap - BRK3015 This overview and roadmap session with Scott Hunter and Scott Hanselman will cover the present and future of .NET. We'll learn about new scenarios that .NET Core 3.0 will enable, supporting WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET Core, Azure, containers, IoT, massive scal...
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See Microsoft Build 2019 Highlights | Microsoft Azure Discover the latest announcements from Microsoft Build 2019, the premier developer conference from Microsoft.
Automated Certificate Management | Heroku Dev Center With Automated Certificate Management, Heroku automatically manages your TLS certificates for all apps that have Hobby and Professional dynos on the Common Runtime.
Down the Security Rabbithole Podcast: DtSR Episode 344 - You've Probably Been Pwned This week, Rafal is joined by the man, the myth, the Aussie legend - Troy Hunt. We basically talk about whatever is on his mind - which, as it turns out is a lot. Take a listen, we may publish an English translation later (joking, Troy!). Highlight...
Fight the global warming: compile your C# apps ahead of time An overview of ahead of time compilation in .NET, and the ways to make your C# apps launch faster and use less memory.
Edge79+ vs. Edge18 vs. Chrome Note: I expect to update this post over time. Last update: 2/3/2020. Compatibility Deltas As our new Edge Insider builds roll out to the public, we’re starting to triage reports of compatibil…
Using Entity Framework Core to process Azure Service Messages in ASP.NET Core This article shows how to use Entity Framework Core together with an Azure Service Bus receiver in ASP.NET Core. This message handler is a singleton and so requires that an Entity Framework Core co…
Implement server-side of NegotiateStream on Unix by Tratcher · Pull Request #36827 · dotnet/corefx #8221 @davidsh I'm starting this draft PR to show you the scope of the changes needed for this feature. I'll follow up with you offline. The current code works end-to-end using a Windows cl...
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Stripe API with ASP.NET Core - Part 3 WebHooks In the previous posts of this mini-series I showed how to set up an ASP.NET Core 2.2 Application to connect to the Stripe API using Stripe.NET. At the end of the first post I had everything set up so that Products and Pricing Plans are automatically creat...
Using Azure Service Bus Topics Subscription Filters in ASP.NET Core This article shows how to implement Azure Service Bus filters for topic subscriptions used in an ASP.NET Core API application. The application uses the Microsoft.Azure.ServiceBus NuGet package for …
ASP.NET Blog | Azure SignalR Service now supports ASP.NET! Azure SignalR Service, which is ASP.NET Core SignalR based, has released a SDK to support ASP.NET SignalR applications.
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dotnet/spark .NET for Apache® Spark™ makes Apache Spark™ easily accessible to .NET developers. - dotnet/spark
Evolution Software improves hazelnut quality with ML.NET | .NET Evolution Software uses ML.NET to predict moisture levels of hazelnuts during the commercial drying process and alerts operators when they reach the ideal level.
Using Microsoft Configuration Extensions with Steeltoe When you design a modern application, so many new “doors” are opened as you. One topic that you should ponder: configuration. It’s not a very exciting topic like say, Kubernetes. But configuration has tremendous long term effects on the success of your ap...
qmlnet/qmlnet Qml.Net - Qt/QML integration/support for .NET. Contribute to qmlnet/qmlnet development by creating an account on GitHub.
Using AWS Parameter Store for ASP.NET Core Data Protection Keys - CodeOpinion How to use AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store to manage and share ASP.NET Core Data Protection Keys when in a load balanced scenario.
» An Unlikely Savior The Digital Antiquarian Activision Blizzard is the largest game publisher in the Western world today, generating a staggering $7.5 billion in revenue every year. Along with the only slightly smaller behemoth Electronic Arts and a few Japanese competitors, Activision for all inte...
Choosing the right defaults for Tiered Compilation · Issue #12515 · dotnet/runtime Choosing the right defaults for tiered compilation Tiered compilation (TC) is a runtime feature that is able to control the compilation speed and quality of the JIT to achieve various performance o...
DevOps For ASP.NET Developers Pt.1 - What is DevOps? DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users. Azure DevOps is everything you need to turn an idea into a working piece of software. In this first episode of the DevOps for ASP.NET Developers...
Become a Dev Rockstar by Learning About your Users with Visual Studio App Center and Azure | App Center Blog This is a guest post by Sunny Mukherjee. As a customer of Visual Studio App Center, you linked your code repository, configured your first mobile build definitions, committed your code, watched your builds in real-time, and installed your mobile app on re...
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First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. V. Physical Origin of the Asymmetric Ring - IOPscience The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has mapped the central compact radio source of the elliptical galaxy M87 at 1.3 mm with unprecedented angular resolution. Here we consider the physical implications of the asymmetric ring seen in the 2017 EHT data. To thi...
A Framework for Regulating Content on the Internet Regulators need to stop blindly regulating “the Internet” and instead understand that every part of the Internet stack is different, and only one part is suffering from market failure.
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Unit Testing Improvements in Rider 2019.1 - .NET Tools Blog In the latest Rider 2019.1 Early Access Preview (EAP) builds, we made a number of improvements to unit testing – in the overall performance as well as the UI/UX experience. For example, it’s now possible to run tests from Find Usages, making it easy to fi...
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Azure Front Door Service is now generally available Every internet facing web application, whether serving a large audience or a small set of users in a single region, is by default a global application. Whether you are running a large news website with millions of users across the globe, running a B2B app...
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Bringing GPU acceleration to Windows containers At the release of Windows Server 2019 last year, we announced support for a set of hardware devices in Windows containers. One popular type of device missing support at the time: GPUs. We’ve heard frequent feedback that you want hardware acceleration for ...
Middleware in ASP .NET Core This is the thirteenth of a series of posts on ASP .NET Core in 2019. In this series, we’ll cover 26 topics over a span of 26 weeks from January through June 2019, titled A-Z of ASP .NET Core! A –…
Announcing the Azure Functions Premium plan for enterprise serverless workloads We are very excited to announce the Azure Functions Premium plan in preview, our newest Functions hosting model! This plan enables a suite of long requested scaling and connectivity options without compromising on event-based scale.
jberezanski/ChocolateyPackages Chocolatey packages maintained by me. Contribute to jberezanski/ChocolateyPackages development by creating an account on GitHub.
YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant Proposals to change recommendations and curb conspiracies were sacrificed for engagement, staff say.
Using Lambda@Edge to handle Angular client-side routing with S3 and CloudFront In this post I show how to use Lambda@Edge with a statically hosted site to intercept invalid requests caused by client-side routing and return index.html
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.NET Core in Action A great on-ramp to the world of .NET and .NET Core. You’ll learn the why, what, and how of building systems on this new platform.
Announcing Lucet: Fastly's native WebAssembly compiler and runtime Today, we're thrilled to announce the open sourcing of Lucet, our native WebAssembly compiler and runtime. WebAssembly is a technology created to enable web browsers to safely execute programs at near-native speeds, and it's been shipping in the four majo...
Introduction to authentication for Single Page Apps on ASP.NET Core Use Identity with a Single Page App hosted inside an ASP.NET Core app.
Dotnet-Boxed/Templates .NET project templates with batteries included, providing the minimum amount of code required to get you going faster. - Dotnet-Boxed/Templates
New AMD EPYC-Powered Amazon EC2 M5ad and R5ad Instances | Amazon Web Services Last year I told you about our New Lower-Cost, AMD-Powered M5a and R5a EC2 Instances. Built on the AWS Nitro System, these instances are powered by custom AMD EPYC processors running at 2.5 GHz. They are priced 10% lower than comparable EC2 M5 and R5 inst...
Real-time Speech-to-Text and Translation with Cognitive Services, Azure Functions, and SignalR Service When we do a live presentation — whether online or in person — there are often folks in the audience who are not comfortable with the language we're speaking or they have difficulty hearing us. Microsoft created Presentation Translator to ...
Run static methods from gutter, IL Viewer, install SDKs and more improvements in Rider 2019.1 - .NET Tools Blog When we announced the latest Rider 2019.1 EAP build, we covered the highlights of this upcoming release. In this post, we’ll look at some smaller yet useful additions that we will ship in Rider 2019.1. We can now run static methods from … Continue reading...
NDC Meetup with Troy Hunt at Microsoft Reactor with SSW - Sydney Welcome to NDC Meetup with Troy Hunt in collaboration with SSW at Microsoft Reactor. Agenda 17:30 - Pizza and Drinks 18.00 - Welcome and introduction by Adam Cogan from SSW 18:15- Talk by Troy Hunt 19:15 - 45 min Q&A with Troy Clouds, Codes, and Cybers ...
Microsoft Cloud Show: “Have I been pwned?” - An Interview with Troy Hunt In this 296th episode, AC and CJ sit down with Microsoft MVP & RD Troy Hunt at the MVP Global Summit in Redmond, Washington. We covered personal security, data breaches as well as building and growing a cloud-native service that has to serve deal with ove...
Using FluentValidation for Forms Validation in Blazor In this post, I'm going to show you how you can use the popular FluentValidation library, instead of data annotations, to validate the forms in your Blazor apps.
Tutorial: Build a movie recommender - matrix factorization - ML.NET This tutorial shows you how to build a movie recommender with ML.NET in a .NET Core console application. The steps use C# and Visual Studio 2019.
NDC Meetup with Troy Hunt at Microsoft Reactor with SSW - Sydney Welcome to NDC Meetup with Troy Hunt in collaboration with SSW at Microsoft Reactor. Agenda 17:30 - Pizza and Drinks 18.00 - Welcome and introduction by Adam Cogan from SSW 18:15- Talk by Troy Hunt 19:15 - 45 min Q&A with Troy Clouds, Codes, and Cybers ...
How to optimize and run ML.NET models on scalable ASP.NET Core WebAPIs or web apps | Cesar de la Torre Context —— UPDATE on May 13th 2019: The recommended way to deploy/run an ML.NET model into ASP.NET Core web apps or WebAPI services is by using the ‘Microsoft.Extensions.ML’ Integration package. Read about it in this tutorial: – Deploy an ML.NET model in...
AWS SDK for .NET now targets .NET Standard 2.0 | Amazon Web Services The AWS SDK for .NET is distributed via NuGet packages for each service and a common core NuGet package. Each NuGet package contains different .NET assemblies, depending on your development platform. This includes .NET Framework 4.5, .NET Framework 3.5, t...
GameTechDev/GTS-GamesTaskScheduler A task scheduling framework designed for the needs of game developers. - GameTechDev/GTS-GamesTaskScheduler
[Question] CoreRT future plans · Issue #7200 · dotnet/corert Dear CoreRT team, Having followed this repo for now a couple of years and having developed a product depending on it, it's been quite a journey to follow the development in here. It's been ...
So you want your app/website to work in China… Wait, what do you mean make my app/site work in China? I don’t have to do anything to make my app work in the US or Singapore or Kenya or anywhere else, and I didn’t make the Chinese government angry, so it should just work in China, right? Sadly, it’s no...
NDC Meetup with Troy Hunt at Microsoft Reactor with SSW - Sydney Welcome to NDC Meetup with Troy Hunt in collaboration with SSW at Microsoft Reactor. Agenda 17:30 - Pizza and Drinks 18.00 - Welcome and introduction by Adam Cogan from SSW 18:15- Talk by Troy Hunt 19:15 - 45 min Q&A with Troy Clouds, Codes, and Cybers ...
Introduction to gRPC on .NET Core Learn about gRPC services with Kestrel server and the ASP.NET Core stack.
Killed by Google Killed by Google is the open source list of dead Google products, services, and devices. It serves as a tribute and memorial of beloved services and products killed by Google.
Creating my first Azure Functions v2.0 app: a WebHook and a timer In this post I show how to create an Azure Functions app with a timer that triggers a build on Netlify, and a WebHook that subsequently clears the cache in
Here's Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS It was Jan last year that I suggested HTTPS adoption had passed the "tipping point", that is, it had passed the moment of critical mass and as I said at the time, "will very shortly become the norm". Since that time, the percentage of ...
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Conventions used by Containers on Azure App Service • Jamie Phillips Conventions used by Containers on Azure App Service If you have been planning to use containers on Azure App Service, there are some conventions used that helps you get up and running. I have found that they are not all consolidated in one place and there...
Hosting ASP.NET Core behind https in Google Kubernetes Engine Side-note: this may be one of the clumsiest titles I’ve ever written for a blog post. But it does what it says on the tin. Oh, and the space after “ASP” in “ASP .NET Core…
NDC Meetup with Troy Hunt at Microsoft Reactor with SSW - Sydney Welcome to NDC Meetup with Troy Hunt in collaboration with SSW at Microsoft Reactor. Agenda 17:30 - Pizza and Drinks 18.00 - Welcome and introduction by Adam Cogan from SSW 18:15- Talk by Troy Hunt 19:15 - 45 min Q&A with Troy Clouds, Codes, and Cybers ...
Using AddAzureSignalR with Razor Conponents 3.0.0 preview 3 · Issue #8590 · dotnet/aspnetcore Describe the bug Click events don't work To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: Create new Razor Components project 2, Add Microsoft.Azure.SignalR NuGet package In startup.cs, change ser...
Azure/azure-functions-signalrservice-extension Azure Functions bindings for SignalR Service. Contribute to Azure/azure-functions-signalrservice-extension development by creating an account on GitHub.
Really efficeint representation of PI by KrzysztofCwalina · Pull Request #129 · Azure/azure-sdk-for-net-lab I was doing research what our developers need in terms of APIs. Today, I noticed a significant spike in the demand for a good representation of the number PI. After a review of the available repres...
Xbox Live expands to mobile in Microsoft's big streaming push The dawn of game streaming is almost upon us.
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Running Local Azure Functions in Visual Studio with HTTPS This article shows how to setup a Visual Studio Azure Functions project to work with HTTPS for local development. HTTP is configured per default and not HTTPS. The command line arguments need to be…
NDC Meetup with Troy Hunt at Microsoft Reactor with SSW - Sydney Welcome to NDC Meetup with Troy Hunt in collaboration with SSW at Microsoft Reactor. Agenda 17:30 - Pizza and Drinks 18.00 - Welcome and introduction by Adam Cogan from SSW 18:15- Talk by Troy Hunt 19:15 - 45 min Q&A with Troy Clouds, Codes, and Cybers ...
Episode 082 – xUnit with Brad Wilson | The 6 Figure Developer Brad has been a professional software developer for more than 25 years, working as a consultant, developer, team lead, architect, and CTO. He is currently working at Microsoft on the App Center
Deploying Blazor Apps Using Azure Pipelines In this second of two posts, I show how to create a release pipeline for your Blazor app using Azure pipelines and deploying to Azure storage as a static site.
Building Blazor Apps Using Azure Pipelines In this first of two posts, I show how to set up a CI pipeline for your Blazor apps using Azure pipelines.
Real-time serverless applications with the SignalR Service bindings in Azure Functions Since our public preview announcement at Microsoft Ignite 2018, every month thousands of developers worldwide have leveraged the Azure SignalR Service bindings for Azure Functions to add real-time capabilities to their serverless applications.
Real-time web applications with ASP.NET Core SignalR Brady Gaster (@bradygaster) joins Cecil (@cecilphillip) to show how easy it is to add real-time functionality to your web applications using ASP.NET Core SignalR. They discuss topics such as targeting
Azure DevOps for Visual Studio Extensions As you might have guessed reading some of my older posts, I like to automate things which I believe a computer should do in place of humans.
Stable Filtering — Part 1 How to make a filter that can be applied millions of times without producing artifacts.
Real-time web applications with ASP.NET Core SignalR Brady Gaster (@bradygaster) joins Cecil (@cecilphillip) to show how easy it is to add real-time functionality to your web applications using ASP.NET Core SignalR. They discuss topics such as targeting with clients, SignalR transports, and options for runn...
IIS Hosting for ASP .NET Core Web Apps This is the ninth of a series of posts on ASP .NET Core in 2019. In this series, we’ll cover 26 topics over a span of 26 weeks from January through June 2019, titled A-Z of ASP .NET Core! A – Z of…
How to make your game run at 60fps Here’s the deal. You got a game, and you want to run it at 60 fps on a 60hz monitor. Your computer is fast enough that both rendering and…
Runtime analysis and leak detection for Autofac IoC containers like Autofac are magic when they quietly do their job; but, when they don’t behave as intended, they can be maddeningly opaque.
Dotnetos - .NET Performance Tour 2019 Dotnetos is an initiative of three .NET fans. We love this technology and we love performance. We love to get deep into how it works. And we love to share the knowledge we gain.
Handling Errors in ASP .NET Core This is the eighth of a series of posts on ASP .NET Core in 2019. In this series, we’ll cover 26 topics over a span of 26 weeks from January through June 2019, titled A-Z of ASP .NET Core! A – Z o…
PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell GA Danny Maertens and Scott Hanselman discuss updates made to PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell. Learn about PowerShell Core in Linux, new Azure VM remoting cmdlets, and integration with Exchange. Jump To:
Radio TFS Episode 165: Goodbye VSTS Hello Azure DevOps In this episode Greg, Martin, Josh and Gordon talk all about this week's Azure DevOps launch. From what it is, what cheese has moved, discussion on the name, what's going to happen to Team Foundation Server, listener feedback and much more...
kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way Bootstrap Kubernetes the hard way on Google Cloud Platform. No scripts. - kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way
Build real-time web communication apps with ASP.NET Core SignalR - BRK3189 SignalR is now part of ASP.NET Core! Join us to learn how you can build real-time web applications with all the benefits of ASP.NET Core, including better performance and cross-platform support. This session introduces you to some of the improvements in t...
Volkswagen and Microsoft partner to give drivers a connected, seamless ride | Transform Volkswagen and Microsoft are partnering to develop the Volkswagen Automotive Cloud, a dedicated global cloud platform that will provide digital mobility services across the automaker’s portfolio.
Kubernetes 1.12: Kubelet TLS Bootstrap and Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) Move to General Availability Author: The 1.12 Release Team We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.12, our third release of 2018! Today’s release continues to focus on internal improvements and graduating features to stable in Kubernetes. This newest version graduates ...
Global Azure > Home All around the world user groups and communities want to learn about Azure and Cloud Computing! On April 23-25, 2020, all communities will come together once again in the seventh great Global Azure event! Each user group organizes their own one to three d...
Azure SignalR Service now generally available Since its introduction five years ago, SignalR has grown to be one of the most popular real-time connection technologies around the world. As applications that use SignalR scale, managing and scaling a SignalR server can become quite a bit of work.
Microsoft Azure Developer: Implementing Table Storage In this course, you will learn how to work with Azure Table Storage. You will get a good understanding of how to set it up, and how to use it in your .NET applications.
Introducing GitHub Pull Requests for Visual Studio Code Introducing GitHub Pull Requests for Visual Studio Code
Announcing Azure Pipelines with unlimited CI/CD minutes for open source With the introduction of Azure DevOps today, we’re offering developers a new CI/CD service called Azure Pipelines that enables you to continuously build, test, and deploy to any platform or cloud.
First experiments using EF Core with Azure Cosmos DB Entity Framework Core (EF Core) was designed to not being a framework for only relational databases. It just takes some time to get the first non-relational providers. Now is the time. Microsoft no…
Serverless to the Max: Doing Big Things for Small Dollars with Cloudflare Workers and Azure Functions As time has gone by, one of the things I've enjoyed the most in running Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) is seeing how far I could make the dollars stretch. How big can it go whilst at the same time, running it on a shoestring? I keep finding new ways
Desert Code Camp - 2018 - DevOps/System Administration - Hattan Shobokshi - Accidentally DevOps : Continuous Integration for the .NET Developer Date for Desert Code Camp - 2018 Saturday, October 6, 2018 8:00:00 AM - Saturday, October 6, 2018 6:00:00 PM
This is not your father's Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says Microsoft isn't the coolest tech company, and he's fine with that.
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The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase | Union Square Ventures We are not in an infrastructure phase, but rather in another turn of the apps-infrastructure cycle. First, apps inspire infrastructure. Then that infrastructure enables new apps. Platforms evolve from an iterative cycle of apps=>infrastructure=>apps=>infr...
Computer Logic with Chris Dixon - Software Engineering Daily The history of computing can be thought of as a series of ideas rather than objects. From Aristotle’s formalization of the syllogism, to Alan Turing’s model for an all-purpose computing machine, to Satoshi Nakamoto’s distributed transaction ledger–these b...
The Elusive Frame Timing Finally, an explanation for why some games stutter on your PC (and a glimpse of hope that this might stop happening in the near future)
July 4, 1976 — Rome.ro What dark secret hides within this strange house? As you visit each location, and touch objects you see, you learn about this family from the viewpoint of the child. If you are a fan of disturbing games this one will unsettle you as you explore every nook...