Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, and his teams at Microsoft held an event today focused on the education market and how Microsoft is working to support students, teachers and administrators worldwide with Microsoft Windows, Office and other software. In this post I will recap some of the high points. The event was broadcast virtually at …
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I’ve been working on some of the open source .NET Core code lately and using the Windows Subsystem for Linux to run it in Linux. In general, this has worked really well. It so nice to have Linux right inside Windows! I did come across an issue today that I wasn’t about to find any …
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June 30, 2017 Update – Selenium AND .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2 – it works! I blogged about Selenium support for .NET Core in November last year (2016) and its been one of my most popular posts to date so I thought it warranted an update. The Bad News The short story is the Selenium …
After writing my last blog post about debugging .NET Core in the Windows Subsystem for Linux I quickly found an issue. At first I thought it was a problem with my code but I believe it is a larger issue with debugging over SSH. It doesn’t seem to matter where I place the breakpoint in …
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The new Microsoft is all about cross-platform and expanding the reach of .NET. In this post we will setup a local development environment Windows to debug against a .NET Core console application in the Windows Subsystem for linux. Buckle up! Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) WSL is a new feature in Windows 10 which enables …
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Started playing with some of the .NET Core source code this week and decided to try it on the Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux. I found the install page and ran some commands in the console to find out what version of Linux was running: $ uname -aLinux DESKTOP-12345 3.4.0+ #1 PREEMPT Thu Aug 1 …
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In my recent testing with Nano, I found the xWebsite DSC resource and further the get-website PowerShell cmdlets are not available on Nano. Initially, I thought I had made a mistake in my Nano configuration/setup but eventually found some documentation on the subject. Nano Server is a clean server platform for the future and so …
Just finished a fun talk at the 2017 Powershell & Devops Summit about test-driven development with Chef, PowerShell DSC and Pester on WIndows. We ended up with 60+ attendees in the talk, all of which were engaged and asked some really great questions. Source All the demo code is available on Github at the following …
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Whenever I give presentations that include Visual Studio I usually change my theme from the dark to the light theme to improve the contrast of the presentation for those viewing a projector/screen. Visual Studio has made this VERY easy which is nice. Recently I have been showing more and more output from the PowerShell console …
Three plus years ago as we were starting to contemplate the move toward Continuous Delivery and speeding up our velocity of value delivery to the business, we immediately identified branching as one of the blockers. We were the traditional enterprise Microsoft development shop. Team Foundation Server 2008 with many long-lived branches, typically Main, DEV1 and …