7 lesser known hacks for debugging in Visual Studio

by bill-s, 2017-06-24T17:38:40.000Z

The Visual Studio debugger is a magical beast that can save you loads of time while finding and fixing issues in your application. In this post we explore  7 lesser known goodies you can use to help you debugging.

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C# async await Tutorial: Understanding & Visualizing Tasks

by bill-s, 2017-06-23T20:59:35.000Z

Microsoft and the .NET community have made asynchronous programming very easy with their implementation of async await in C#. The latest versions of ASP.NET heavily utilize it to improve performance.

CQRS in Azure – Part 4 – Azure Development Community

by bill-s, 2017-06-23T21:00:49.000Z

In CQRS in Azure Part 1, CQRS was defined and context was provided to explain why the pattern is relevant to building solutions in Azure.

Preparing For A Speaking Event? These MVPs Have Some Tips

by bill-s, 2017-06-23T20:55:10.000Z

Let’s face it. Preparing for a big presentation can be pretty daunting, no matter how many times you’ve done it.

Rider: Taking ReSharper out of Process (Matt Ellis at .NET SW)

by bill-s, 2017-06-22T22:54:33.000Z

In this talk, we won’t be looking at Rider (a new cross platform .NET IDE from JetBrains, integrating the language analysis features of ReSharper inside the IDE functionality of IntelliJ)’s feature set. Instead, let’s geek out and see how and why we built our own custom, asynchronous, declarative, reactive, inter-process, cross runtime communications protocol.

Save the date: Microsoft Edge Web Summit 2017 comes to Seattle on September 13th

by bill-s, 2017-06-22T04:55:52.000Z

We’re thrilled to announce that our third annual Microsoft Edge Web Summit is coming to Seattle on September 13th, 2017!

Testing ASP.NET Core MVC Controllers: Getting Started

by bill-s, 2017-06-23T20:59:38.000Z

When writing ASP.NET Core MVC web applications, you may want to test that controller actions behave in the expected way, for example that the action returns the correct result type (e.g. a ViewResult) or that the action behaves as expected when the model state is invalid.