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If you start down the path of implementing Event Sourcing, you’ll most likely come across https://cloudevents.io/ which has the tag line “A specification for describing event data in a common way”. This project seems to be well supported (take a look at the contributors list) and has language projections for a number of different languages. … Read more
This post looks at deploying resources defined using Azure Bicep to multiple environments using Azure DevOps Pipeliens
As I start to work with Azure Bicep I figured I’d share some of my experiences here. First up, is just a quick recap of how to generate bicep code from an ARM template. Actually, the problem I initially started with was how to start writing bicep code since I wasn’t really familiar with either … Read more
This post will explores mvvm navigation further, employing the latest c# 9 code generator to reduce the boilerplate code that developers have to write.
Build and debug a source code generator with C# 9 and Visual Studio.
This post covers how you can use a .bicep file in your Azure DevOps pipeline to deploy resources to Azure via an ARM template
A feature that was added to .NET Core apps was the ability to publish as a single file. As we approach the release of .NET 5 I thought it worthwhile taking a look at the options for publishing Windows Forms and WPF applications with dotnet publish. For this post we’re going to work with a … Read more
Firstly, if you haven’t been following the development of .NET 5 then you should definitely download the latest Visual Studio preview and .NET 5 preview SDK today. Next, you should follow the blogs from the dotnet team and specifically the post by Immo that discusses the future of .NET Standard. The post doesn’t just cover … Read more
How to display items in an ItemsControl using different templates
One of the reasons that Microsoft failed to get wide spread adoption of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) is that there is already a massive investment into Windows Forms (WinForms) and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications. In this post we’re going to walk through how you can use XAML Islands to host UWP controls within an existing WinForms or WPF application.
How to synchronize ListBoxes displaying three levels of hierarchical data
If you’ve recently upgraded to the latest Visual Studio preview (Preview 2 of VS 16.8) then you may run into issues if you attempt to create a new WinUI for Desktop project. You’ll see a prompt similar to the following and only the packaging project will get created. The full text from the error is … Read more
One of the things that’s often given me pause for thought is the approach we take to navigation within applications. For the purpose of this post I’m going limit the scope to just XAML based applications (XF/Maui, UWP/WinUI/Uno, WPF). In all of these application platforms there is a built in capability to navigate between pages. … Read more
