Ben June 15th, 2021 Bing runs one of the world’s largest, most complex, highly performant, and reliable .NET applications. This post discusses the journey and the work required to upgrade to .NET 5, including the significant performance gains we achieved. This application sits in the middle of the Bing architecture stack and is responsible for much of the coordination among thousands of other components that provide results for all queries. It is also at the heart of many other services outside of Bin...

Building modern APIs require a lot of things to make them reliable, observable, and scalable. In no particular order, here are some of them that help you build better APIs:1. Healthchecks Healthchecks are important in making sure that we know when anything happens to our APIs. We can setup dashboards to monitor them and setup alerting to let us know when one of the APIs is unhealthy. They are also important when deploying your apps to kubernetes. Kubernetes can monitor healthchecks of your APIs and auto...

Welcome the summer with the release of the early preview of the Telerik UI for MAUI suite!All Products Product BundlesDevCraft All Telerik .NET tools and Kendo UI JavaScript components in one package. Now enhanced with:Conversational UIOnline TrainingDocument Processing LibraryEmbedded Reporting for web and desktopWebKendo UIUI for jQueryUI for AngularUI for ReactUI for VueUI for ASP.NET AJAXUI for ASP.NET MVCUI for ASP.NET CoreUI for BlazorUI for SilverlightUI for PHPUI for JSPMobileUI for MAUIUI for X...

TL;DR: Everything you need to know about formatting plain text with Serilog.Expressions, by example. There are endless ways to format log output. With Serilog’s built-in “output templates”, you can choose the fields and text to include in log output, and use .NET format string-style alignment and width syntax, but that’s about it. Serilog.Expressions is a fairly new library that plugs in to enable everything else. This post collects the plain text formatting questions I’ve fielded over the years, and t...

SourceGear.Llama.Swift.Sdk, now available on NuGet, is an MSBuild project SDK for .NET 5 that allows compiling Swift, with support for calling .NET class libraries. This blog entry is a closer look at those features. Reminder: Llama is at the "proof of concept" stage, and is not production ready. In my previous Llama blog entry, I walked through a simplistic implementation of "grep" in both C# and Rust. Let's revisit that sample now in Swift.The .swiftproj file Recall that the project file for the C#...

azure devops · devops · WydarzeniaProgrammer-girl Nie pisałam tutaj już od jakiegoś czasu – a to dlatego, że intensywnie pracuję nad Kursem Azure DevOps. Tworzymy go razem ze Stanisławem Bugalskim już od kilku miesięcy. Planujemy wystartować w połowie lipca, a do piątku 11.06. do godz. 20:59 trwa przedsprzedaż. Tyle reklamy, teraz przejdźmy do materiałów, z których możecie sie czegoś nauczyć.Moje materiały o Azure DevOps O Azure DevOps już nie raz pisałam tutaj na blogu. Jeśli jesteście ciekawi innych...

Rendering PDFs with Razor Templates and PuppeteerSharp in Azure Functions A couple of weeks ago, we looked at how to use Puppeteer with Node.js Azure Functions to take screenshots of web pages. Today, we'll look at how to render PDFs in Azure Functions using Razor and the C# port of Puppeteer, PuppeteerSharp. A common usage of this is generating something like an invoice. We'll create PDF invoices for our favorite fictitious online store, Tailwind Traders. Overview We'll run ASP.NET Core Razor Pages ...

It’s a Thursday, which means: .NET open source drama. Last October, Dominick Baier and Brock Allen, the two creators and maintainers of IdentityServer, announced that IS’s current business model was inherently unsustainable and they’d be moving to a paid licensing model using the Reciprocal Public License (RPL) and under a new company, Duende Software, beginning with IdentityServer5. Last month Microsoft announced that they were going to continue to include Duende’s IdentityServer dependency in their...

Richard June 3rd, 2021 The .NET or Common Language Runtime (CLR) type system is the foundation of the .NET programming model. We often talk about System.Object being the base of the type system, but it’s really the base of all (reference) types. The type system is (at least) one step lower than that. It defines that both reference and value types exist, that strings are immutable, that single-inheritence is allowed and multiple-inheritence is not, and that generics are a runtime concept. On the other h...

In this article, I'll show you some of the tricks I use to pimp up my Windows Terminal and PowerShell.