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• Smart libraries for .NET

  Posted on November 10, 2022

  In the .NET ecosystem, there’s been a slow emergence of what I like to call “smart libraries”: these are nuget packages that include additional behavior that “lights up” inside an editor that supports them, such as Visual Studio. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • nuget
  • roslyn

• Compile-time automatic dependency injection registrations for .NET

  Posted on September 26, 2022

  Minimal APIs bring a fresh and clean approach to developing APIs in (ASP).NET 6, with a focus on easy to read and minimal clutter coding. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • di
  • dotnet
  • aspnet

• How to avoid hiting GitHub API rate limits in CI workflows

  Posted on July 14, 2022

  I have a dependabot-like workflow I run on a schedule across many repos (it synchronizes arbitrary files across arbitrary repos using dotnet-file), which just recently failed since it hit the GitHub rate limit. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • devops
  • github

• Running headless Chromium in Azure Container Apps with Playwright

  Posted on June 29, 2022

  With the release of Azure Container Apps we now have a flexible alternative to Azure Functions that allows using the full power of ASP.NET Core in a fully serverless way that can scale down to zero when unused. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • azure
  • container

• How to do Azure Functions Logging with DI

  Posted on March 10, 2022

  There is a bit of an unfortunate situation with Azure Functions’ ILogger implementation. To sumarize: the DI-injected ILogger<T> at the class level, won’t log to the Console by default, and even if you bump the logging level like so in host.json: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • azure
  • functions

• Get owner and project name from GitHub Actions

  Posted on October 18, 2021

  Say you need to access a GitHub repository owner and project name, separately. We know GitHub Actions environment variables exposes this information as: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • github
  • actions
  • ci

• How to retry failing dotnet tests in GitHub Actions

  Posted on September 24, 2021

  TL;DR;: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • github
  • ci

• Running (Mostly) Minimal .NET 6 APIs in Azure Functions

  Posted on September 3, 2021

  Ok, I have to admit that the provided instructions aren’t bad at all. They actually state (most) of the required steps to do this, with a couple key missing pieces that caused me some trouble and resulted in quite a few trial-and-error attempts. I’m writing this down for my own future reference and hopefully it will save you some time too. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • azure
  • functions
  • serverless

• How to embed videos in GitHub pages without growing the repository size

  Posted on July 23, 2021

  Just a couple months ago GitHub announced video uploads support, which allows you to just drag&drop an .mp4 or .mov onto an issue, pull request or discussion and have it uploaded and hosted by GitHub for free 😍. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • github

• Clean cross-platform process shutdown for dotnet

  Posted on July 22, 2021

  While developing dotnet-evergreen, I needed to figure out a way to cleanly terminate a process in a cross-platform way without resorting to a (somewhat violent) Process.Kill. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • tools

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