Adventures in .NET

In this episode the panelists talk about source control. What is source control? How do you use it? Do you need it? As a developer today the majority of us are probably using Git in some form or fashion. Even though it feels like Git has been around forever that wasn't always the case. Shawn, Wai and Caleb remember the days before Git using SourceSafe or Subversion. Things have come a long way sin...

In a lot of codebases, security isn't a priority until it is too late. Everyone makes mistakes but the question is do you learn from your mistakes or repeat them over and over. Christos Matskas returns to the podcast to discuss some common security mistakes and better ways to make security part of your development process. Our discussion includes .NET Framework web configs, secret storage, databas...

In a lot of codebases, security isn't a priority until it is too late. Everyone makes mistakes but the question is do you learn from your mistakes or repeat them over and over. Christos Matskas returns to the podcast to discuss some common security mistakes and better ways to make security part of your development process. Our discussion includes .NET Framework web configs, secret storage, databas...

In today's episode Carl Layton returns to the podcast to discuss Azure Functions. What are Azure Functions and how do they work? Functions are one of the serverless compute options from Azure. You can use Functions to build web APIs, respond to database changes, manage message queues, and more. Beyond that we look at the security, performance and scaling of Azure Functions. What is it like to writ...

There is a lot that goes into interviewing for a job, both for the interviewer(s) and the interviewee. The panelists talk about their experiences over the years from both sides. What questions should you ask? What shouldn't you ask? Should coding be involved or not? How many interviews should you expect to have at one company? Do you cast a wide net when interviewing or do you focus on a couple of...

Cecil Philips returns to the show to discuss the power of Minimal APIs and the differences to Controllers. They also discussed about using .NET with Stripe, and use cases for .NET Interactive. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Picks Cecil- Assassin's Creed Valhalla for Xbox One, PS4, PC & More | Ubisoft (US) Shawn- Upload Season 2 Special Guest: Cecil Phillip. Sponsored By: Coachin...

In this episode we get the pleasure of picking the brain of the lead designer of C#, Mads Torgersen. Mads has been the lead designer for more than five years now and has worked on the language for over fifteen years. Our discussion covers multiple topics including the growth of C#, being backward compatible and how different languages incorporate ideas from each other. We also dig into the specifi...

In this episode we get the pleasure of picking the brain of the lead designer of C#, Mads Torgersen. Mads has been the lead designer for more than five years now and has worked on the language for over fifteen years. Our discussion covers multiple topics including the growth of C#, being backward compatible and how different languages incorporate ideas from each other. We also dig into the specifi...

Most developers we know find project management to be a necessary evil but without it a lot of us would be stumbling around in the dark. Shawn and Caleb look back over their careers to discuss different project management methodologies. Whether it is waterfall, agile, scrum, or none of these, projects are hard to manage. Both Shawn and Caleb have seen a lot of different ways that projects can be m...

Wai and Caleb sit down to discuss how authentication is evolving and how it works in Blazor. Identity server is now Duende server and with that comes the Backend for Frontend (BFF) pattern. From an authentication persepective this pattern can benefit SPA's because of the way it handles cookies and tokens. Caleb is in the process of integrating a .NET 6 Blazor app with Identity server 4 (IDS4) and...

Have you ever used SignalR in your development? .NET might have used it for the code you wrote and you didn't realize it. Kevin Griffin has used SignalR for multiple projects over the years and joins us to discuss how you can use it in your development. SignalR uses a pub/sub model and is great for applications that need immediate feedback. Kevin used it for a city's emergency system to provide al...

In today's episode Mohamad Lawand helps us try and grok gRPC. gRPC is a modern open source high performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment. That description doesn't really demystify what gRPC can do so Mohamad helps us fill in some of the gaps. We find out how gRPC works in .NET, how it works with HTTP, how it is different from REST and some good use cases fo...

Have we piqued your curiosity? We were curious as well so Andy Watt agreed to join us on the podcast and fill us in on the details. Remote - Containers is a VS Code extension that allows you to open any folder or repository inside a Docker container and take advantage of the full feature set of VS Code. You get all of the benefits of using Docker containers without ever having to leave Visual Stud...

We go very low-level with Adam Furmanek and discuss techniques for overriding fundamental rules of the C# language. We discuss why we should probably almost never do this, but we discuss some niche use cases where it is appropriate and the problems that can be solved. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Overriding Sealed Methods in C# .NET Internals Cookbook – Random IT Utensils Pi...

Have you ever thought about mixing two SPA frameworks together? In today's episode we discuss doing just that, Blazor and Angular running in the same application. Both Angular and Blazor have ways to export code as web components that can be reused in other applications. In order to use Angular in Blazor you have to get familiar with IJSRuntime and how JavaScript interoperability works in Blazor....

In this episode of Adventures in .NET the panelists take a look at the Microsoft Power Platform. Power Platform consists of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and Power Virtual Agents. Wai Liu has been working with Power Apps, Microsofts low code tooling, for the past year and has found it to be a valuable tool in the right circumstances. Caleb Wells has experience with Power BI which is Microso...

Unsure about how and why to use Source Generators in .NET? Stefan Schranz explains them in an easy-to-understand way. He compares them to T4 templates and explains that there’s a new and more powerful way to generate code. Learn about how to get started, the limitations, and their use cases in this episode. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching...

It has been more than a year since we had Mark Miller on the podcast, which is too long, but he is back with us today to talk about outside of the box thinking. The first thing you need to know when thinking outside the box is that there is no such thing as impossible. Maybe it isn't financially feasible or would take an inordinate amount of time but it is not impossible. Next throw out any precon...

It has been more than a year since we had Mark Miller on the podcast, which is too long, but he is back with us today to talk about outside of the box thinking. The first thing you need to know when thinking outside the box is that there is no such thing as impossible. Maybe it isn't financially feasible or would take an inordinate amount of time but it is not impossible. Next throw out any precon...

Adventures in .NET has come a long way in the last two years and has had a lot of great guests during that time. For our 100th episode the hosts, Shawn Clabough, Wai Ho Liu and Caleb Wells, pull up the list of episodes and take a trip down memory lane. We discuss some of our favorite topics, moments, picks and more. It has been a lot of fun and we are looking forward to the next two years and 100+...

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Azure trainer Brian Gorman joins us on the show and help us untangle all of the many Azure certification pathways. We discuss reasons someone might want to get certified as well as share tips on the best way to pass the exam. Panel Shawn Clabough Wai Liu Guest Brian Gorman Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links Training with...

If you are listening to this podcast you probably know about the OWASP Top 10. A new top 10 came out in September to replace the list from 2017 and there are a number of changes. Christian Wenz joins us to go through each item with a fine-tooth comb. The list has some new additions and consolidates some of the categories to try and make things clearer. One of the bigger changes is Broken Access Co...

If you are listening to this podcast you probably know about the OWASP Top 10. A new top 10 came out in September to replace the list from 2017 and there are a number of changes. Christian Wenz joins us to go through each item with a fine-tooth comb. The list has some new additions and consolidates some of the categories to try and make things clearer. One of the bigger changes is Broken Access Co...

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