As more and more companies are embracing container-based infrastructure workflows, I often find myself getting pulled into conversations on how to deal with “heritage” .NET Framework applications. Let’s take a look at what it takes to put your most common workload types into a container. You’ll need Docker Desktop installed running in Windows container mode….
C# 8 has added support for default interface implementation, meaning that you can define a method body right on the interface which will be used as automatic implementation in any class implementing the interface. There’s however a nasty error that is very easily created and hard to detect when using this new feature. Consider the…
The introduction of LINQ based API in .NET has revolutionized how developers process collections of objects. Traditional approaches involved running nested, difficult to read loops often involving complex state machines. LINQ has introduced high-level functional fold operators that can be applied to some “source repository” in order to establish a logical pipeline that allows filters,…
Learn how you to use Roslyn and .NET 5 source generation to automate the creation of builder pattern in your code
Learn how to use NMica to automatically create efficient docker images for your .NET apps and greatly reduce size of your images between builds.
Cloud Foundry buildpacks are not just about making specific languages run in containers. They can also be used to apply behaviors and middleware into your apps. Learn about the many pre-built buildpacks and how to use them.
Learn how to target and rewrite .NET methods at runtime including those in core and third party libraries.
Cloud Foundry buildpacks offer a convenient way to bootstrap applications. At its core, it’s a code recipe that prepares the application to be launched on Cloud Foundry by doing things like injecting dependencies (runtime, middleware, etc), setting environmental variables, modifying application config parameters. If you’re a Cloud Foundry user, you probably have many buildpacks already…
Review of Azure App Service for running .NET workloads
This post is intended to give a quick glance understanding of Azure’s App Service offering and it’s capabilities. App Service is an PaaS offering from Microsoft Azure, currently offering four distinct flavors: Web Apps Web app for Containers Mobile Apps API Apps One important thing to realize about Azure App Services are based around VM…