Tag: General

Chances are you keep a personal calendar, maybe a family calendar, and a work calendar. Working from home, it’s super important to keep these calendars more or less in sync. Colleagues book meetings because your work calendar shows you’re available, while in reality you’ve planned to do some errands or maybe pick up your kids from school.

Last week, I came across the following question: “Is there an async producer/consumer collection these days in .NET?” Why yes, there is! Using System.Threading.Channels, we can create producer/consumer pairs, and we can even chain them together in a pipeline. In this post, I will try to explain concurrency, producer/consumer, and System.Threading.Channels concepts using a practical example, to refresh our collective memories.

Yesterday, Aaron Stannard posted some awesome news for the .NET community: the introduction of Sdkbin. Sdkbin is targeted at solving the OSS sustainability problem by automating the majority of the sales, fulfillment, licensing, and accounting needed to sell libraries, frameworks, and support plans. It’s (roughly speaking) an App Store, delivered as a NuGet feed. This seems like a great idea, and most of all, one that is needed.

In this blog post, we’ll see how we can use Azurite, an open source Azure Storage API compatible server (emulator), in Docker, and how to run it from JetBrains Rider. We can use Azurite in Docker to keep Azure Storage data local to a solution, and, for example, have different blobs and queues for different Azure Functions projects. Ever since I started playing with Azure back in 2008, I’ve been using the Azure Storage Emulator to have a local storage emulator to develop with. It provides a local environment for testing applications that use Azure blob and/or queues.

In this post, I’ll describe a little trick I used while building a Rider plugin for XAML Styler, which is referencing a specific assembly from a NuGet package. Let’s start with some background on why I needed this, followed by how to reference a specific assembly from a NuGet package. If you don’t care about the background, feel free to skip the first section.

In this post, let’s see how we can create an ASP.NET Core Tag Helper to show or hide UI elements based on authorization policies. But before we do so, let’s start with a quick introduction outlining why you may want to do this. The web front-end of SpeakerTravel, a side project that helps simplify travel booking for speakers at conferences and events, is built using ASP.NET MVC and Razor Pages. As it goes with many applications, there is going to be some point where you need authentication, and equally important, authorization.

Last week, I wrote a blog post a book about Streaming a Community Event on YouTube - Sharing the Technologies and Learnings from Virtual Azure Community Day. I ended that post with an appendix of things I’ve looked into but have no experience with. That… changed! Our Azure User Group held its first virtual session yesterday. The social aspect of hanging out with a group of peers was definitely amiss, but the streaming went well! This ime, we streamed on YouTube, with the help of StreamYard. I’ll write some observations and thoughts that build on the previous blog post.

Earlier this week, our Belgian Azure User Group has been part of the Virtual Azure Community Day (VACD). An online event hosted by user groups from Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Bulgaria. All online and streamed to YouTube, and organized and executed in ~2 weeks. Many have asked how we have done the YouTube streaming, and that’s what I want to share in this blog post, together with our learnings and things we would do different for future events.

My friend and colleague Matt Ellis has this habit of nerd sniping me. Sometimes intentional, sometimes accidental. Today, he asked whether we could have a quick look at an issue together, which ended up being a nerd snipe of the latter category. Here’s a blog post about how the new .NET project format references framework assemblies, and how it seems to be impossible to map those back to individual NuGet packages. Buckle up, sit back, and follow along!

In the .NET team at JetBrains, we try to be as responsive as possible on Twitter when there are mentions of ReSharper, Rider, or any of the profiling tools. Many of our developer advocates, as well as the development team, QA and marketing, are active on Twitter and keep an eye on what’s being talked about, to try and help out wherever and whenever they can.