In 2018 Microsoft re-launched VSTS as Azure Devops with a new UI and a bunch of new features. The best new feature in my opinion is that you can create your build configurations in code using YAML. Visual editors can be great but I prefer to put my build definition directly in my repo and…

Azure Devops is the new and improved version of VSTS which now allows you to define your buils with configuration-as-code using YAML instead of the visual editor to create your build pipelines. In fact it is now the default experience and when you create a new Build Pipeline it will create a new PR to…

This article is an update to a previous article where I described how to serve a single page JavaScript app with ASP.NET Core. The reason for the update is that I’ve changed the way that I approach doing this. I think the new approach is easier and it has the benefit of being more performant,…

This is to part 6 of a multi-part React tutorial that will teach you the basics of React while building a simple app to compare crypto-currency prices to stock prices. You can find the code to work along here and the starting point for this step can be found in the branch using-state-for-api-requests by running…

This is to part 5 of a multi-part React tutorial that will teach you the basics of React while building a simple app to compare crypto-currency prices to stock prices. You can find the code to work along here and the starting point for this step can be found in the branch using-props by running…

This is to part 4 of a multi-part React tutorial that will teach you the basics of React while building a simple app to compare crypto-currency prices to stock prices. You can find the code to work along here and the starting point for this step can be found in the branch splitting-components by running…

This is to part 3 of a multi-part React tutorial that will teach you the basics of React while building a simple app to compare crypto-currency prices to stock prices. You can find the code to work along here and the starting point for this step can be found in the branch creating-basic-component by running…

This is to part 2 of a multi-part React tutorial that will teach you the basics of React while building a simple app to compare crypto-currency prices to stock prices. You can find the code to work along here and the starting point for this step can be found in the branch start by running…

Lately, I’ve been guiding a few people through the basics of React.js, both at work and with friends. Doing this I realised there really are only a few fundamentals concepts to learn, but sometimes people have trouble getting their heads around them at first. I thought I’d create a a multi-part tutorial to give anyone…

I’m a huge fan of coding standards, but I’m not a big fan of having to enforce them myself. This article is here to show you how to setup automatic code analysis using the new Rosyln anaysers and the ports of the classic StyleCop rule sets. If you want to see a basic .NET application…