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Rebooting Your Agile Transformation using Empathy: Slides from Pluralsight Live 2018
I spoke at Pluralsight Live 2018 at the end of August and I just realized that I hadn’t ever posted my slides. The talk was about how to restart a failed or floundering Agile/Scrum transformation by taking a step back and thinking about what you want as a leader and how you choose to say it. …
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Some Useful Visual Studio Code Snippets
Update: June 20, 2019 — Here’s an updated version of this post and the snippets including support for Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac. A couple of months ago, I got inspired to really learn .NET Core and Visual Studio Code (VSCode). But I didn’t just want to learn it from Windows — the…
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Slides from VSLive Chicago 2018: “Real World Scrum with Azure DevOps & TFS”
As promised, here are the slides from my Real World Scrum with TFS2018 and Azure DevOps talk at VSLive Chicago 2018. Real World Scrum with Team Foundation Server 2018 & Azure DevOps (aka. Visual Studio Team Services) You’ve got Team Foundation Server 2018 or Azure DevOps and you’re looking to do Scrum. Ok. Great. Now…
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Slides & Code from VSLive Chicago 2018: “Unit Testing for Mere Mortals”
I just wrapped up my talk at VSLive Chicago 2018 — “Unit Testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD) for Mere Mortals”. Thanks to all the attendees for the great questions. As promised, here are my slides and code samples. Unit Testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD) for Mere Mortals Unit Testing and Test-Driven Development (TDD) arguably mean…
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Deploy Entity Framework Core 2.1 Migrations from a DLL
We’ve got a new version of .NET Core and a new version of Entity Framework Core (EF Core). Unfortunately, EF Core 2.1 hasn’t made it any easier to deploy database migrations from DLLs rather than from the source code. (sigh) Deploying EF Core migrations from DLLs is a key feature for DevOps CI/CD stuff —…
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Workaround for EF Core 2.1 error: Your startup project ‘project-name’ doesn’t reference Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design
If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you know that I’m obsessed with being able to deploy Entity Framework Core (EF Core) migrations from published (“dotnet publish”) DLLs instead of from the project code. Why? Because if you care about DevOps-y things like automated deployments — especially in Visual Studio Team Services — you…
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ASP.NET Core & Azure Easy Auth with Multiple Authentication Providers (Including Development Mode)
I’ve been neck deep in Azure App Authentication (aka. Easy Auth) lately trying to get it to work with ASP.NET Core applications. I wrote a bunch of labs/walk-throughs last week to demonstrate how to make it work. Here are the posts in the Azure Easy Auth series: Lab 1, Lab 2, Lab 3, Lab 4,…
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Walkthrough: Part 5, ASP.NET Core Claims-based Security using Azure App Authentication & the /.auth/me Service Endpoint
I’ve been working doing a lot more with Azure Web Apps lately and found that there are some basic things that it’s hard to find information on. So I decided to write some labs. This is the fifth post in a series. The overall goal of these labs is to teach you how to create…
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Walkthrough: Part 4, Azure App Service Authentication with a Mix of Public and Protected ASP.NET Core MVC Pages
I’ve been working doing a lot more with Azure Web Apps lately and found that there are some basic things that it’s hard to find information on. So I decided to write some labs. This is the fourth post in a series. The overall goal of these labs is to teach you how to create…
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Walkthrough: Part 3, Publish ASP.NET MVC Core Application to Azure Web App
I’ve been working doing a lot more with Azure Web Apps lately and found that there are some basic things that it’s hard to find information on. So I decided to write some labs. This is the third post in a series. The overall goal of these labs is to teach you how to create…