May 1, 2017 Update – https://www.dotnetcatch.com/2017/05/01/selenium-with-net-core-may-1-2017-update/ June 30, 2017 Update – Selenium AND .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2 – it works! For the early adopters of .NET Core it can be tough waiting for third party dependendencies to provide updated Nuget packages with support for .NET Core. We all know its early days and they …
Wow, just wow! If you missed the Microsoft Connect 2016 Day 1 keynote you missed a lot! In total, there were two and a half hours of announcements, demos and news from Microsoft. They covered Azure, Visual Studio, Xamarin mobile development, .NET, SQL and much more. I”ve tried to distill the biggest announcements and statements …
I have recently been researching NetflixOSS and found Netflix provides many Docker images that make setting up a local development environment really easy. In order to run the images on Windows, I installed Docker for Windows which is a Hyper-V based Docker host for Windows. This all installed without issue and I was able to …
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I’ve mentioned in many previous posts that we utilize Thoughtworks GO! to orchestrate our CD pipelines. We implemented GO! about three years ago. At the time we were experimenting with CD improvements and ThoughtWorks had recently open sourced GO! so it was the low-cost/risk option. Three years later we have 50+ pipelines and are deploying …
Given people, process and tools, what should you optimize your software development technology strategy around? This is the question that has been at the top of mind recently. Setting the right technology strategy for any size business can be difficult given the many complex factors involved, especially for larger enterprises. The primary goal, of course, …
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After attending some really great leadership training from Kimball Fisher (author of Leading Self-Drected Work Teams and other great books) at work this week, I decided I must do better with setting the goals and agenda for meetings in hopes that attendees come more prepared and the meetings are more effective. I have thought to …
Very few .NET developers ever look at the XML inside their .csproj file or further understand how it all works. The good news is its not that difficult to understand. In this post we will see how you can create a custom project file for a Nuget package project. The default ASP.NET csproj file has …
My team has used TFS in our private datacenter for over six years now as our primary source control, build and test management system. We utilize TFS build definitions, as described in my last blog post, to perform all our application building, packaging and testing. When we started down the path toward Continuous Delivery three …
We use TFS 2015 to handle all of our .NET application builds as part of our CD process and it works GREAT! In this post I will review how we use TFS in each step of the process. Gated Check-ins We have used Gated Check-ins for several years now to ensure our code is of …
I’ve seen lots of questions recently regarding if/how deployment of ASP.NET Core applications changed from previous versions of ASP.NET. The good news is many of the old capabilities exist, although you will likely have to adjust your deployment processes to utilize them. In this post, I will cover how to deploy an ASP.NET Core application …