Creating Azure Resources in Azure Pipelines
Posted: October 11, 2020 Filed under: Azure, DevOps | Tags: .NET Core, Azure, Azure Pipelines, Continuous Deployment (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), DevOps 1 CommentIf you intend to build infrastructure in Azure as part of your build or release pipelines, for example using Azure Resource Management (ARM) templates, you should use a service principal to connect to your Azure subscription. In this post, I’ll show you how to use the Azure CLI to create a service principal with sufficient permissions for both creating resources and assigning roles to them, and how to setup a service connection to use it in Azure DevOps.
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Custom Entry Points in WPF on .NET Core
Posted: January 31, 2020 Filed under: .NET, .NET Core, WPF | Tags: .NET, .NET Core, WPF 2 CommentsTo create a custom entry point for a WPF application that is created using the default template in Visual Studio and targets the .NET Framework, you can change the Build Action property of the App.xaml file from ApplicationDefinition to Page and create a class with a static Main method. That’s what I did in a previous post about handling protocol activation and redirection in packaged apps.
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Single-file executables in .NET Core 3
Posted: September 22, 2019 Filed under: .NET Core | Tags: .NET Core, DevOps, MSIX, WPF 1 CommentThe new PublishSingleFile option in .NET Core 3 lets you package an application into a single executable (.exe) file that contains all assemblies, resources, content files and other stuff that the app requires at runtime. This means that the output directory of an app that previously would contain a bunch of framework specific and referenced DLLs, configuration files and other content can now be reduced to contain only a single .exe file that you can simply double-click on to run the app. These single-file executables do however come with some gotchas.
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Override TestRunParameters in .NET Core
Posted: May 30, 2019 Filed under: .NET Core, Azure, DevOps | Tags: .NET Core, Azure, Azure Pipelines, Continuous Integration (CI), DevOps, YAML 1 CommentUsing a .runsettings file with a <TestRunParameters> element is a convenient way to keep sensitive information required by your integration tests, such as for example username and passwords, out of source control. At least if you run your tests on Windows using Visual Studio Test or the VSTest@2 task in Azure Pipelines.
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WPF on .NET Core
Posted: December 15, 2018 Filed under: .NET, .NET Core, Windows Forms, WPF | Tags: .NET, .NET Core, Windows Forms, WPF 1 CommentMicrosoft announced at Build 2018 back in May that they are bringing .NET Core to the Windows desktop applications frameworks, including both WPF and Windows Forms. This means that your client applications will be able to take advantage of the various performance improvements that have been introduced in .NET Core and that you will be able to deploy them as self-contained executables (.exes) that have no dependency upon any pre-installed version of .NET. Read »
Platform Conditional Compilation in .NET Core
Posted: November 5, 2018 Filed under: .NET Core | Tags: .NET Core, Docker 4 Comments.NET Core 1.0 introduced the System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation type that lets you dynamically detect which operating system (OS) your app currently runs on. Read »
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