ASP.NET Monsters

Monsters Weekly 273 - GitHub and Azure Boards

2024-10-07T13:00:00.000Z

Let’s see how you can use GitHub for repositories together with Azure Boards for issue tracking. The integration is actually pretty simple to setup.

See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/github/install-github-app?view=azure-devops for more information.

Dave is a Microsoft employee working on the Azure DevOps product team.

Monsters Weekly 272 - Playwright and Azure Pipelines

2024-03-13T13:00:00.000Z

Playwright and Azure Pipelines work well together. Let’s see how easy it is to run Playwright tests in an Azure Pipeline then view the test results along with attached screenshots, videos, and trace files.

Monsters Weekly 271 - Hierarchy Ids in Entity Framework

2024-02-25T14:00:00.000Z

In this video we learn about how to use the new Hierarchy Id in Entity Framework 8

Monsters Weekly 270 - Entity Framework JSON Columns

2024-02-13T14:00:00.000Z

Entity framework has support as of EF7 for JSON column types. Is this a good idea? Should you use it and if you do how do you use it? All questions will be answered in this video.

Monsters Weekly 269 - Entity Framework Bulk Update

2024-02-08T14:00:00.000Z

In a triumphant return we start taking a look at all the cool new stuff in .NET that I’ve been missing while writing a bunch of Ruby code. Today we look at a feature of Entity Framework I’ve been missing the ability to bulk update and bulk delete. This came with EF7 but that’s still new to me.

Monsters Weekly 268 - GitHub Actions to Azure, without secrets!

2023-05-08T13:00:00.000Z

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.

References:

Monsters Weekly 267 - Updating Legacy ASP.NET Applications

2023-04-17T13:00:00.000Z

There are a lot of legacy ASP.NET applications out there. In this video we start looking at how we can update them

Monsters Weekly 266 - Time Series Data with Postgres

2023-04-10T13:00:00.000Z

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.

Monsters Weekly 265 - Suggest Code Changes in Azure DevOps Pull Requests

2023-03-27T13:00:00.000Z

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

Monsters Weekly 264 - Debugging a .NET process at start-up with Visual Studio

2023-03-13T13:00:00.000Z

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

Monsters Weekly 263 - Postgresql and Entity Framework

2023-02-23T14:00:00.000Z

Entity Framework dives many of today’s most popular applications. Using EF with PostgreSQL is a snap! Checkout how in this video.

Monsters Weekly 262 - Getting Started with PostgreSQL in C#

2023-01-25T14:00:00.000Z

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/

Monsters Weekly 261 - Ignoring files in git without the .gitignore

2022-10-21T13:00:00.000Z

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!

Monsters Weekly 259 - Faster Azure DevOps Pipelines

2022-09-19T13:00:00.000Z

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.

Documentation:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2022/sprint-209-update?tabs=yaml#do-not-sync-tags-when-fetching-a-git-repository

Monsters Weekly 260 - Postgres on Azure

2022-09-19T13:00:00.000Z

SQL server isn’t the only database available on Azure. We can also use a really nice managed instance of postgresql.

Monsters Weekly 258 - Enforce Node Versions with package.json and GitHub Actions

2022-08-29T13:00:00.000Z

If you want your node/npm based project to use a specific version of Node and NPM, it’s best to enforce that using the engines setting in package.json. In today’s episode, we do just that with the ASP.NET Monsters blog repo and even configure GitHub Actions to install the correct version onf Node based on the engines specified in package.json.

Changes we made to package.json and our GitHub Actions Workflow:
https://github.com/AspNetMonsters/website/pull/92/files

Volta for integrating with your shell https://volta.sh/

Monsters Weekly 257 - Generating PDF with Razor

2022-07-21T13:00:00.000Z

Taking the next step from our last video we incorporate Razor into building PDFs

Monsters Weekly 256 - Generating PDFs in Functions Apps

2022-07-05T13:00:00.000Z

In this video we’ll look at how to generate PDFs from inside a functions app using https://github.com/HakanL/WkHtmlToPdf-DotNet

Monsters Weekly 255 - IEnumerable Visualizer in Visual Studio

2022-06-27T13:00:00.000Z

The new IEnumerable Debugger Visualizer in Visual Studio makes it easy to display (and even export) large collections when debugging your code.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/view-net-collections-with-the-new-ienumerable-debugger-visualizer/

Monsters Weekly 254 - Debugging with Style in Visual Studio

2022-06-20T13:00:00.000Z

Check out these tips for making it easier to visualize collections (arrays, lists, etc.) in the Visual Studio Debugger.

DebuggerDisplay Attribute - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/using-the-debuggerdisplay-attribute?view=vs-2022