A few days ago, I got an email with the subject of Inquiry from a Michael Fleming at michaeltfleming6@gmail.com. Initially, I didn’t think anything of it. This time of the year I get a lot of emails with random subjects because of Desert Code Camp. So I opened it and here is what it said.

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This morning I was working on a blog post on getting started with Developer Containers. For this, I opened up Visual Studio Code and JetBrains Rider. Once I opened them side by side, I noticed that the files on the file list in their “Explorers’” were in a different sort order. This confused me because, at least I think, they have always been in the same order, dotted (.) folders first, then underscored (_) folders, then “regular”, then files. That was not the case for Visual Studio Code it was sorted with underscored (_) folders first, then dotted (.) folders, then “regular”, then files.

Recently, I attended a session at DEVIntersections on Dev Containers presented by Burke Holland. Prior to attending the session, I knew of Development Containers, or Dev Containers for short, but didn’t understand them. This session helped me understand what they are and how to use them. I figured that I would share what I learned with you.

Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I decided to create a series of blog posts around working with it.

This article provides insights on how to work with dotnet 10 effectively using Development Containers without affecting your local machine setup.

In this post, I’m going to walk through how you authenticate and use an API that is secured with Azure Active Directory using React Native and the Microsoft Identity library.

In this post, we delve into the technology stack and development process behind MoreSpeakers.com, a platform dedicated to connecting aspiring speakers with experienced mentors in the technology community.

Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I decided to create a series of blog posts around working with it.

In this post, we’ll walk through how you can use Azure Key Vault to secure sensitive settings in Azure Functions. If you don’t have a Key Vault setup, I covered setting one up in the post titled ‘Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Value’

In this post, we delve into the technology stack and development process behind MoreSpeakers.com, a platform dedicated to connecting aspiring speakers with experienced mentors in the technology community.

In this post, I’m going to walk through how you authenticate and use an API that is secured with Azure Active Directory using React Native and the Microsoft Identity library.

While we hope it never happens, demo failures happen when presenting talks or doing workshops. I do not know of a speaker that has not had a demo go bad while up on stage or live streams. Many of us have a back up plan… After searching around for solutions for this, I decided to use git tagging to solve this for me.

The last day few days, I have been experimenting with the LinkedIn API to send my blog posts, YouTube videos, and community updates automatically to my LinkedIn profile from my open-source project JosephGuadagnoNet.Broadcasting. It’s been quite a challenge to get it to work. I ran into authentication issues, permission issues, and serialization issues. So what did I decide to do? You guessed, solve the issues and blog about it so you don’t have to.

There are so many devices that are connected to our home networks nowadays. I have multiple Amazon Fire Sticks, computers, smart TVs, mobile phones, smart appliances, and so much more. At any given time, there are around forty devices connected to my home network. Since working from home, I have three to four machines that are constantly ‘on the internet’. The main house TV, my work computer, my son’s computer or Xbox, and the daughter’s Fire Stick/YouTube. These devices are typically streaming in some way, shape, or form. All of these devices, plus the other 30 or so on, were taxing my router. I currently don’t have any CAT5/6/7 wiring in my house, so I tried extending my wireless network a few different ways.

Update November 5th, 2020 Thanks to Rolf Kristensen, one of the NLog maintainers, and some debugging, I came up with another solution!

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MoreSpeakers.com is a new platform dedicated to bridging the gap between aspiring and experienced speakers in the technology community by creating meaningful mentorship relationships that foster growth, confidence, and knowledge sharing.

In a previous post, I demonstrated how you can protect an ASP.NET Core Web API using the Microsoft Identity Platform. In this post, we are going to look at what you need to do to have an ASP.NET Core MVC application interact with the same protected API. It’s really easy, once you figure it out! :wink:

When using Google or Bing Maps to lookup an address or point of interest, both display address suggestions in a user-friendly way. In the example below, I type “Time Square”, and Bing suggests a few addresses/places.

.NET has been around for a while and has had many versions. We started the .NET Framework, moved into .NET Core, and now just .NET, kind of sort of :smile:. Keeping your application up with the latest version of .NET can be challenging. There are budgets to consider, time to learn the differences, and time to “fit in the migration.” Migrating or “upgrading” an ASP.NET MVC from .NET Framework to ASP.NET Core can be easy at times. Other times it can be just hard. There are no silver bullets to the migration as each project and solution is different. I’m going to walk you through one of the ways you can have a successful migration from ASP.NET MVC to ASP.NET Core MVC. At the end of the post, I’ll show you some gotchas that I have run across migrating applications.

Learn how to create dynamic Open Graph profile images using C# and .NET in this step-by-step guide.

Hello, Microsoft identity platform!

There was a twitter conversation around building an extension to make it easier for presenters/twitchers and others to quickly switch between settings in Visual Studio. I decided to blog about how I do it.

I got bit by the dependency injection bug a few months ago and want to use it when I can, and it makes sense. Within a month or so of writing this post, Azure Functions started to support dependency injection in functions. It uses the .NET Core Dependency Injection system, so if you are used to that, this should mostly look familiar to you, except for what you have to do to wire up the Azure Functions SDK.

A few days ago, I got an email with the subject of Inquiry from a Michael Fleming at michaeltfleming6@gmail.com. Initially, I didn’t think anything of it. This time of the year I get a lot of emails with random subjects because of Desert Code Camp. So I opened it and here is what it said.

Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I decided to create a series of blog posts around working with it.

The Agent drama continues… Lately I have been having problems with GitHub Copilot and/or with the agents not ‘listening’ or ‘remembering’ directives.

Recently, I discovered an option in GitHub Copilot Cli that prevents the computer from going to sleep…

Update November 5th, 2020 Thanks to Rolf Kristensen, one of the NLog maintainers, and some debugging, I came up with another solution!

There has been much talk on social media about being a Software Engineer/Developer/Programmer in the last week or so, probably because we are all being safe and staying in our houses with not much else to do. Conversations have included what it takes to be an engineer, how to get started in engineering, and explaining what a ‘Software Engineer’ does.

Update Aspire version recursively in all projects and solutions within a directory.

Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I decided to create a series of blog posts around working with it.

In a previous post, I demonstrated how you can protect an ASP.NET Core Web API using the Microsoft Identity Platform. In this post, we are going to look at what you need to do to have an ASP.NET Core MVC application interact with the same protected API. It’s really easy, once you figure it out! :wink:

There was a twitter conversation around building an extension to make it easier for presenters/twitchers and others to quickly switch between settings in Visual Studio. I decided to blog about how I do it.

In this post, I’m going to walk through how you authenticate and use an API that is secured with Azure Active Directory using React Native and the Microsoft Identity library.

I have been using JetBrains Rider for a while now and I have been really happy with it. I have also been using it for presentations and demos. I thought I would share how I set it up for presentations.

When using Google or Bing Maps to lookup an address or point of interest, both display address suggestions in a user-friendly way. In the example below, I type “Time Square”, and Bing suggests a few addresses/places.

When you use the Azure Key Vault SDK, you can create, read, update, and delete secrets. In this post, you will learn how to update a secret and its properties using the Azure Key Vault SDK.

This article provides instructions on how to use certificates for authentication with the Microsoft Identity Library in .NET applications.

This morning I was working on a blog post on getting started with Developer Containers. For this, I opened up Visual Studio Code and JetBrains Rider. Once I opened them side by side, I noticed that the files on the file list in their “Explorers’” were in a different sort order. This confused me because, at least I think, they have always been in the same order, dotted (.) folders first, then underscored (_) folders, then “regular”, then files. That was not the case for Visual Studio Code it was sorted with underscored (_) folders first, then dotted (.) folders, then “regular”, then files.

Let’s take a look at how you can set up and configure Azure Key Vault to store Code Signing Certificates

GitHub Pages has deprecated the legacy worker and will be removed by the end of June 2024. The legacy worker was used to build and deploy Jekyll sites on GitHub Pages. The new way to build and deploy Jekyll sites on GitHub Pages is to use GitHub Actions. This post will show you how to migrate your Jekyll site from the legacy worker to GitHub Actions.

I’ve been working on a personal project of mine called “JosephGuadagno.NET Broadcasting”. I know a terrible name, but I’ll work on a better name when it’s ready to be launched. :smile: This application is a web application that allows users to broadcast their content to their followers. One of the components of the application is an API that allows users to create and schedule their content in the application. The application is built using ASP.NET Core, Azure, Swagger, and other components. I recently secured the application using Microsoft’s MSAL library. Now, I’m going to show you how to enable user authentication in Swagger using Microsoft Identity.

Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I decided to create a series of blog posts around working with it.

I have been using JetBrains Rider for a while now and I have been really happy with it. I have also been using it for presentations and demos. I thought I would share how I set it up for presentations.

For the last week or so I’ve been working on modernizing the Desert Code Camp site which meant that I am basically rewriting it. :smile: Part of the rewrite is to make all of the user facing functionality, adding/viewing sessions, viewing the schedule, etc., available from an API and not code behind. I spent the last week or so designing and implementing the API in ASP.NET Core 6. The technology used in building the API does not matter for this post but the example repository is in ASP.NET Core. While testing the application, I started to heavily use the HTTP Client feature of JetBrains Rider. The HTTP Client is a bundled plugin, which is enabled by default, which allows you to emulate calls to a web service or web API. It works very much like Postman, but in the IDE and included.

In a previous post, I demonstrated how you can protect an ASP.NET Core Web API using the Microsoft Identity Platform. In this post, we are going to look at what you need to do to have an ASP.NET Core MVC application interact with the same protected API. It’s really easy, once you figure it out! :wink:

It’s very common for myself and other Microsoft MVPs to get asked “What does it take to become a Microsoft MVP” or “I want to be a Microsoft MVP, please tell me what I can do” when we speak at conferences or chat with each other on social networks. The short answer is most people outside of Microsoft do not know that the “secret formula” is. The long answer requires a little bit of understanding of how Microsoft evaluates potential candidates for receiving the award and what the propose of the award is. The rest of this post is my opinion on how you can become a Microsoft MVP. To see what Microsoft says about how you can become a Microsoft MVP visit http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/becoming-an-mvp.aspx For one to earn the Microsoft MVP award, Microsoft has to see the recipient as someone who provides value to the Microsoft ecosystem and is influential in the software industry. The award is given based on the previous year’s contributions to the Microsoft ecosystem and is from one of the product teams. Product teams include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft .NET and many others. Each product group budgets for a certain number of MVPs a year, depending on the specialty, there can be very few spots to many spots available to for new candidates. In addition to this, you need to get nominated by a Microsoft MVP or Microsoft employee for Microsoft to consider you. OK, so how can I provide value to the Microsoft ecosystem you ask. That’s the tricky spot; there are no fixed rules, minimum contributions or formula for getting in. That being said there are a few things you can do to get on the radar: