My blog about software development on the Microsoft® stack.

Override TestRunParameters in .NET Core

Using 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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Using Azure Pipelines to Publish your GitHub project to NuGet

Azure Pipelines is Microsoft’s new cloud-based continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) service that lets you build and test software written in any language and deploy it to any platform. And one of the best things is that it’s completely free to use for open source projects. In this post you will learn how easy it is to set up it up to build, test and package a .NET standard project that is hosted on GitHub before deploying it to NuGet. Read »