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New Pluralsight Course: Architecting an ASP.NET Core MVC Application for Unit Testability
My latest Pluralsight course just went live a couple of days ago — Architecting an ASP.NET Core MVC Application for Unit Testability. I’ve been wanting to write this course for at least a couple of years now. I like to think of is as the missing modules from all my TFS and DevOps classes. When…
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“Non-Useless Unit Testing for Entity Framework Core & ASP.NET MVC Core”: Slides & Code from VSLive Orlando 2018
I spoke at VSLive Orlando 2018 last week and as promised here are the slides and code samples from my Non-Useless Unit Testing for Entity Framework Core & ASP.NET MVC Core talk. We all know that we should be writing unit tests for our applications. But what do you do about that database code? Data access code…
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“Entity Framework Core for Enterprise Applications”: Slides & Code from VSLive Orlando 2018
I spoke at VSLive Orlando 2018 last week and as promised here are the slides and code samples from my Entity Framework Core for Enterprise Applications talk. What do you do when your simple Entity Framework app isn’t so simple anymore? The entity relationships are starting to get complex. You’re getting worried about performance problems. …
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Deploy EF Core Migrations on Linux/MacOS using DLLs
Are you trying to deploy your Entity Framework Core migrations and you’re trying to deploy them WITHOUT having the source code? Yah. It’s hard to deploy EF Core migrations using just the DLLs in the published output of your .NET Core project, huh? If you’re deploying from a Team Foundation Server (TFS) Build or Release…
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Slides & Code from VSLive San Diego 2018: Feature Flag Deployments with ASP.NET Core & WebAPI
I just wrapped up my “Get Good at DevOps: Feature Flag Deployments with ASP.NET & WebAPI” talk at VSLive San Diego 2018. As promised, here are the slides and the code from the talk. (If you’re wondering, yes, I’ve upgraded the code to use .NET Core 2.1.) Get Good at DevOps: Feature Flag Deployments with…
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Rebooting Your Agile Transformation using Empathy: Slides from Pluralsight Live 2018
I spoke at Pluralsight Live 2018 at the end of August and I just realized that I hadn’t ever posted my slides. The talk was about how to restart a failed or floundering Agile/Scrum transformation by taking a step back and thinking about what you want as a leader and how you choose to say it. …
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Some Useful Visual Studio Code Snippets
Update: June 20, 2019 — Here’s an updated version of this post and the snippets including support for Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac. A couple of months ago, I got inspired to really learn .NET Core and Visual Studio Code (VSCode). But I didn’t just want to learn it from Windows — the…
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Slides from VSLive Chicago 2018: “Real World Scrum with Azure DevOps & TFS”
As promised, here are the slides from my Real World Scrum with TFS2018 and Azure DevOps talk at VSLive Chicago 2018. Real World Scrum with Team Foundation Server 2018 & Azure DevOps (aka. Visual Studio Team Services) You’ve got Team Foundation Server 2018 or Azure DevOps and you’re looking to do Scrum. Ok. Great. Now…
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Slides & Code from VSLive Chicago 2018: “Unit Testing for Mere Mortals”
I just wrapped up my talk at VSLive Chicago 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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Deploy Entity Framework Core 2.1 Migrations from a DLL
We’ve got a new version of .NET Core and a new version of Entity Framework Core (EF Core). Unfortunately, EF Core 2.1 hasn’t made it any easier to deploy database migrations from DLLs rather than from the source code. (sigh) Deploying EF Core migrations from DLLs is a key feature for DevOps CI/CD stuff —…
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