How To Install and Cleanup Visual Studio 2017 Instances

Posted on March 20, 2018

Visual Studio 2017 allows multiple side by side installations, which makes experimenting with various versions and extensions a breeze. Here's how you quickly and easily install and optionally cleanup so-called 'instances' that may have become broken for whatever reason.

[Read More]

Test and Switch: testable yet high performance cross-platform libraries

Posted on March 14, 2018

How to write cross-platform libraries without resorting to abstractions that slow down an app at run-time while still being able to unit test logic that consumes those libraries. Just like bait & switch gave us the trick to leverage platform-specific code in cross-platform libraries, test & switch gives us the trick to author them in a testable and still high performance way.

[Read More]

Serverless custom NuGet feeds

Posted on October 10, 2017

Pretty much all CI systems offer nuget feed hosting. But why setup those when you can have a CI-independent, static serverless feed virtually for free and almost no effort?

[Read More]

Building like a Pro: A Primer

Posted on October 1, 2017

In this second installment of the series, I showcase the basic core concepts in MSBuild that will get you up and running quickly, with concrete examples to try out the various constructs.

[Read More]

Building like a Pro: Introduction

Posted on September 21, 2017

This is the first of a series of posts where I intend to explore the challenges and showcase approaches to building a product using MSBuild, beyond just building a `.csproj` or `.sln` of course ;).

[Read More]