Did you know that you can deploy your application to Azure using GitHub Actions without having to manage service principal secret credentials! In this episode, Monster Dave converts an existing GitHub Actions workflow to use OIDC based authentication with Azure Workload Identity Federation.
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There are a lot of legacy ASP.NET applications out there. In this video we start looking at how we can update them
We’re exploring time series data on Postgres and to get started we need to get the proper extensions set up on our Azure instance. Let’s mash on that.
Did you know you can suggesting and apply code changes directly in an Azure DevOps pull requests! Use this simple feature to cut down on the time it takes to make small changes to a pull request in Azure DevOps
Learn a simple trick that makes it easy to debug a .NET application at start-up using Debugger.Launch()
Related Docs:
Creating Windows Service - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/windows-service
Debugger.Launch() - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.diagnostics.debugger.launch
Entity Framework dives many of today’s most popular applications. Using EF with PostgreSQL is a snap! Checkout how in this video.
In this video we’ll start looking at how to use the PostgreSQL database from C#. We’ve previously looked a bit at PostgreSQL on azure and you can watch that here: https://www.aspnetmonsters.com/2022/09/monsters-weekly%5Cep260/
Ever wanted to hide a file in git but don’t want to make it global by adding it to the .gitignore? Simon has you covered!
Speed up your Azure DevOps Pipelines! By combining Shallow Fetch and turning off the Sync Tags option you can dramatically decrease the amount of time it takes to fetch your git repo.
SQL server isn’t the only database available on Azure. We can also use a really nice managed instance of postgresql.