Solutions Architect & Software Engineer • Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies
Microsoft offers a large selection of professional certifications and exams focused on their core technologies. Often I have encountered developers who hold the opinion that these exams are not useful since they learn a lot more by using …
Code reviews, also known as peer reviews or code walkthroughs, are an effective way of identifying defects and sharing knowledge. A code review takes place when a programmer engages a …
I recently had the opportunity to talk on Simplified Unit Testing with the EF Core InMemory Provider. I presented at the Canberra, Sydney, and Brisbane .NET User Groups; and will …
In February I wrote a quick post titled Angular + ASP.NET Core Quick Start with .NET Core CLI. Within that post, I introduced ASP.NET Core JavaScript Services and demonstrated how …
In my previous posts, I showed you how to create an Entity Framework Core version of Northwind. It was a good example of reverse engineering a data model including entity …
Welcome back! In part 1 of this series we created the solution and scaffolded the data model based on an existing database. In part 2 we will clean-up the data …
In this 2 part series, I’ll show you how to create a code first version of Northwind using Entity Framework Core. We’ll start by creating the database from scripts, scaffolding …
If you are interested in learning more about IoT, a Microsoft IoT Pack for Raspberry Pi 3 is a great way to go. Especially if you are already familiar with …
Almost a year ago I created the Angular 2 + ASP.NET Core QuickStart using Visual Studio Code. In that quickstart I used the Yeoman generator for ASP.NET core apps to …
After completing the Building Your First Web API with ASP.NET Core MVC and Visual Studio tutorial, I decided to try building the same API using Visual Studio Code and the …