We are joined today by Dylan Smith who walks us through building out our own github actions in C# using his new toolkit.
Links:
The actions we built: https://github.com/stimms/FibonacciAction
Test repo: https://github.com/stimms/FibTest
Source repository: https://github.com/OctoGeeks/dotnet-action-template
Azure Blob Storage supports lifecycle rules which can move your blob between different tiers saving you money. In this episode we cover how to set these rules up by hand and in terraform
.NET 6 introduce some helpful new LINQ extension methods (Chunk, MaxBy and MinBy).
Chunk - https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.linq.enumerable.chunk
MaxBy - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.linq.enumerable.maxby
MinBy - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.linq.enumerable.minby
If you need to process comma separated values in C# then the best tool for the job is CSV Helper https://joshclose.github.io/CsvHelper/
.NET 6 introduces two new types to represent dates and times separately. In this episode, we explore the DateOnly and TimeOnly types and talk about why they are an important addition to .NET.
Read More
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/date-time-and-time-zone-enhancements-in-net-6/
In this video we take a look at a couple of new to me git commands which will make your life easier.
References:
https://www.banterly.net/2021/07/31/new-in-git-switch-and-restore/
There are so many great features in the .NET 6 previews but I don’t want to install the preview SDKs on my main work computer. Let’s take a look at how we can use VS Code Dev Containers to play with the .NET 6 previews without actually installing the preview SDK!
Remote Extension Pack:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.vscode-remote-extensionpack
.NET SDK Docker Images:
https://hub.docker.com/_/microsoft-dotnet-sdk/
With the Playwright Trace Viewer, you’ll never need to wonder why your automated browser test failed. The Playwright Trace Viewer makes it easy to record and replay a full trace of everything that happened while running your test!
Accessibility is an important feature of any web application but we often leave it until late in the development process to start testing. With Axe and Playwright, we can easily automate a large amount of Accessibility testing which can help to ensure we don’t ship our apps/sites with Accessibility bugs.
Links:
https://github.com/abhinaba-ghosh/axe-playwright
https://www.deque.com/axe/core-documentation/api-documentation/#api-name-axeconfigure
https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core/blob/develop/doc/rule-descriptions.md
When you have a lot of data in your SQL database, searching for substrings in a column can be slow. Don’t worry, Simon has some terrible awful, no good hacks that will get those queries running as fast as possible.