Thoughts on Application Design

I have been working on some new applications and prototypes recently.  I historically have seen such moments as an opportunity to think about applications development.  I have been primarily involved in web development for many years now.  I have used a number of frameworks, mostly open source.  I have used Csla on a number of …

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Building .NET Tools with .NET Core 2.1

.NET Core SDK 2.1 shipped with a new and exciting new feature: global tools.  If you worked with npm, you already have a good idea what global tooling is about.  Think angular CLI or similar.  It is an executable, written in .NET Core that you can install on your machine.  It can perform any number …

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Fun with Type Conversions

Recently at work we were coding a particular feature that required us to extend properties with some functionality.  We ended up extending type system with ExtendedPreoprty<T>. , where T was property type.  This lead to a lot of ugly code, such as: Person p = new Person(); p.Name.Value = “John”; I remembered from a long …

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Coupon for my EF Core Video Course

I blogged previously about the courses on Entity Framework Core that are published on PacktPub.  I am excited to offer a valuable coupon for the fist 10 people who claim it Just a reminder that this couple applies to the second course. Course Names: Mastering Entity Framework Core – Mapping, Querying and Manipulating Data Mastering …

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My Courses are Live on PacktPub

Course Names: Mastering Entity Framework Core – Mapping, Querying and Manipulating Data Mastering Entity Framework Core – Advanced Querying, Migrations and Testing Introduction These two courses walk the users through learning all the aspects of Entity Framework Core that you can use today to build .NET Core applications.  These two courses will cover everything you …

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Talk at GGMUG

I spoke at Gwinnett Microsoft users Group last Thursday.  The talk was “Angular 2 / ASP.NET Core Primer”.  Here is the short description.  Get started with developing Angular 2 applications using ASP.NET Core in Visual Studio 2015.  Learn the basics of Angular 2 and ASP.NET Core.  Create a new project in VS and get it …

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