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Workaround for EF Core 2.1 error: Your startup project ‘project-name’ doesn’t reference Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design
If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you know that I’m obsessed with being able to deploy Entity Framework Core (EF Core) migrations from published (“dotnet publish”) DLLs instead of from the project code. Why? Because if you care about DevOps-y things like automated deployments — especially in Visual Studio Team Services — you…
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ASP.NET Core & Azure Easy Auth with Multiple Authentication Providers (Including Development Mode)
I’ve been neck deep in Azure App Authentication (aka. Easy Auth) lately trying to get it to work with ASP.NET Core applications. I wrote a bunch of labs/walk-throughs last week to demonstrate how to make it work. Here are the posts in the Azure Easy Auth series: Lab 1, Lab 2, Lab 3, Lab 4,…
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Walkthrough: Part 5, ASP.NET Core Claims-based Security using Azure App Authentication & the /.auth/me Service Endpoint
I’ve been working doing a lot more with Azure Web Apps lately and found that there are some basic things that it’s hard to find information on. So I decided to write some labs. This is the fifth post in a series. The overall goal of these labs is to teach you how to create…
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Walkthrough: Part 4, Azure App Service Authentication with a Mix of Public and Protected ASP.NET Core MVC Pages
I’ve been working doing a lot more with Azure Web Apps lately and found that there are some basic things that it’s hard to find information on. So I decided to write some labs. This is the fourth post in a series. The overall goal of these labs is to teach you how to create…
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Walkthrough: Part 3, Publish ASP.NET MVC Core Application to Azure Web App
I’ve been working doing a lot more with Azure Web Apps lately and found that there are some basic things that it’s hard to find information on. So I decided to write some labs. This is the third post in a series. The overall goal of these labs is to teach you how to create…
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Walkthrough: Part 2, Configure App Service Authentication for Your Azure Web App
I’ve been working doing a lot more with Azure Web Apps lately and found that there are some basic things that it’s hard to find information on. So I decided to write some labs. This is the second post in a series. The overall goal of these labs is to teach you how to create…
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Walkthrough: Part 1, Create an Azure Web App Definition in Azure
I’ve been working doing a lot more with Azure Web Apps lately and found that there are some basic things that it’s hard to find information on. So I decided to write some labs. This is the first one in a series. The overall goal of these labs is to teach you how to create…
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Slides & Code from VSLive Austin 2018: “Unit Testing for Mere Mortals”
I just wrapped up my talk at VSLive Austin 2018 — “Unit Testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD) for Mere Mortals”. Thanks to all the attendees for the great questions. As promised, here are my slides and code samples. Unit Testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD) for Mere Mortals Unit Testing and Test-Driven Development (TDD) arguably mean…
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Slides from VSLive Austin 2018: “Coaching Skills for Scrum Masters”
Just got back from speaking at VSLive Austin 2018. As promised, here are my slides for that talk. Coaching Skills for Scrum Masters & The Self-Organizing Team Scrum works best with — arguably, requires — a self-organizing team. If you want a high-performing and self-organizing team, it helps if your Scrum Master thinks like a…
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Deploy Entity Framework Core 2.0 Migrations from a DLL
(UPDATE 7/5/2018: If you’re using EF Core 2.1, you’ll probably want to read the updated version of this post.) In a previous blog post, I discussed how difficult it is to deploy Entity Framework Core migrations from the compiled binaries of your project. It’s still difficult to do. You might be thinking, “well, why even…
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