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• NuGetizer as an alternative to .NET SDK Pack

  Posted on May 9, 2021

  There is a very long standing feature request for NuGet Pack to “allow project reference DLLs to be added to the parent nupkg for pack target like IncludeReferencedProjects in nuget.exe”. This has been going on for years (5 almost as of 2021) and has had over 260 comments so far. Seems like quite the significant pain point for some customers. [Read More]

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  • nuget
  • sdk
  • dotnet

• Custom labeling of GitHub sponsors via Actions

  Posted on January 19, 2021

  TLDR: just go check sponsors.yml and sponsors.ps1 😉 [Read More]

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  • github

• Minimalistic Serverless Shortlink Service in ~70 LoC

  Posted on January 11, 2021

  How to create and operate a serverless shortlink service on Azure in ~70 lines of code. [Read More]

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  • azure

• Shareable Windows Terminal profile for installed Visual Studio Developer PowerShell

  Posted on December 21, 2020

  As I mentioned in another post, Visual Studio now provides a Developer PowerShell command prompt shortcut, which is super useful since it has all the environment variables properly set up to do things like msbuild from command line and have it pick the “right” MSBuild, as well as launching VS by just typing devenv. There is a not-so-minor drawback to these shortcuts though: they hardcode the VS installation ID, so just copy/pasting the command line in your Windows Terminal profile won’t roam nicely across machines: [Read More]

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  • code

• How to use .NET module initializers in a concrete real use case

  Posted on September 26, 2020

  Module initializers in C# aren’t a radical new thing for sure, but they were esoteric enough and they required a NuGet package to work, so it seemed like a sort of unofficial/unsupported feature. Not anymore since they are now an officially supported feature with first-class language support in C# 9! [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • msbuild

• How use Visual Studio, MSBuild or Roslyn previews in GitHub or DevOps CI

  Posted on September 23, 2020

  If you want to leverage the many awesome C# 9 features, including roslyn source generators like ThisAssembly, all of which require the latest and greatest .NET 5.0 preview, it would be a pity to have to give up the safety net of your CI builds (whether GitHub Workflows or Azure DevOps pipelines) just because they don’t provide hosted images with the relevant bits. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • roslyn
  • msbuild
  • ci
  • github
  • devops

• How to generate code using Roslyn source generators in real world scenarios

  Posted on September 17, 2020

  Roslyn (as of 16.8 Preview 3) now brings first-class support for source code generators that run as part of a project compilation. The provided cookbook is a fantastic resource to get to know the capabilities and some specific scenarios this feature was created for. The carefully chosen set of features, driven by concrete scenarios, make for a powerful and flexible toolset to supercharge your nuget packages with. In this blog post I’ll outline how I’m using it, in light of my first real-world use case: ThisAssembly. [Read More]

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  • roslyn
  • codegen

• How to customize and publish a docfx site

  Posted on September 9, 2020

  Extending docfx in non-obvious ways for things like changing default icons, styles and scripts, and publishing from CI [Read More]

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  • docs
  • docfx

• On Messaging as Extensibility API

  Posted on August 12, 2020

  Back in 2012, I was on a CQRS Journey together with the fine team at Microsoft patterns & practices. We had a great advisory board to discuss and learn from and it was an interesting way to tackle a novel pattern to solve a complex problem. Back then microservices wasn’t even a thing yet, go figure! [Read More]

  Tags:

  • code
  • patterns
  • vsx
  • visualstudio

• Central Package Versions

  Posted on July 31, 2020

  How to manage NuGet packages in a central place without resorting to MSBuild SDKs [Read More]

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  • tools

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