Using git tag for Presentations or Workshops

While we hope it never happens, demo failures happen when presenting talks or doing workshops. I do not know of a speaker that has not had a demo go bad while up on stage or live streams. Many of us have a back up plan… After searching around for solutions for this, I decided to use git tagging to solve this for me.

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How to simplify your C# unit testing with a mocking framework

It’s time to take your unit testing to the next level. You’ve implemented either NUnit, or xUnit, or MSTest in your projects. You’ve gotten your code coverage to 80+%. But the are just some things that are hard to test or validate in your project. How do you test the “business logic” in your repository class? How do you test your dependent web service or database? Yeah, you can write special unit test and create fake objects to mimic these dependencies but why waste your time writing code that does not ship with the end product. Or write a lot of code with the ExcludeFromCoverage attribute :smile:. Well this is mocking comes in.

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JetBrains .NET Day Online 2026: Call for Papers

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Update Aspire Version Recursively in All Projects and Solutions

Update Aspire version recursively in all projects and solutions within a directory.

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Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Vault

Let’s take a look at how you can set up and configure Azure Key Vault to store Code Signing Certificates

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How to simplify your C# unit testing with a mocking framework

It’s time to take your unit testing to the next level. You’ve implemented either NUnit, or xUnit, or MSTest in your projects. You’ve gotten your code coverage to 80+%. But the are just some things that are hard to test or validate in your project. How do you test the “business logic” in your repository class? How do you test your dependent web service or database? Yeah, you can write special unit test and create fake objects to mimic these dependencies but why waste your time writing code that does not ship with the end product. Or write a lot of code with the ExcludeFromCoverage attribute :smile:. Well this is mocking comes in.

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JetBrains Rider Settings for Presentations

I have been using JetBrains Rider for a while now and I have been really happy with it. I have also been using it for presentations and demos. I thought I would share how I set it up for presentations.

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Protecting an ASP.NET Core Web API with Microsoft Identity Platform

Microsoft Identity Web is a library which contains a set of reusable classes used in conjunction with ASP.NET Core for integrating with the Microsoft identity platform (formerly Azure AD v2.0 endpoint) and AAD B2C.

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Extended Validation (EV) Code Signing Certificates with Azure Key Vault and digicert

In a previous post, I showed you how to Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Vault. In this post, I will show you how to create an Extended Validation (EV) Code Signing Certificate with digicert and store it in Azure Key Vault.

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Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Vault

Let’s take a look at how you can set up and configure Azure Key Vault to store Code Signing Certificates

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Azure Key Vault - Update a Secret and its Properties Programmatically

When you use the Azure Key Vault SDK, you can create, read, update, and delete secrets. In this post, you will learn how to update a secret and its properties using the Azure Key Vault SDK.

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Are we the parents in the AI Agent relationship? The drama continues

The Agent drama continues… Lately I have been having problems with GitHub Copilot and/or with the agents not ‘listening’ or ‘remembering’ directives.

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So you want to be a Microsoft MVP

It’s very common for myself and other Microsoft MVPs to get asked “What does it take to become a Microsoft MVP” or “I want to be a Microsoft MVP, please tell me what I can do” when we speak at conferences or chat with each other on social networks. The short answer is most people outside of Microsoft do not know that the “secret formula” is. The long answer requires a little bit of understanding of how Microsoft evaluates potential candidates for receiving the award and what the propose of the award is. The rest of this post is my opinion on how you can become a Microsoft MVP. To see what Microsoft says about how you can become a Microsoft MVP visit http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/becoming-an-mvp.aspx For one to earn the Microsoft MVP award, Microsoft has to see the recipient as someone who provides value to the Microsoft ecosystem and is influential in the software industry. The award is given based on the previous year’s contributions to the Microsoft ecosystem and is from one of the product teams. Product teams include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft .NET and many others. Each product group budgets for a certain number of MVPs a year, depending on the specialty, there can be very few spots to many spots available to for new candidates. In addition to this, you need to get nominated by a Microsoft MVP or Microsoft employee for Microsoft to consider you. OK, so how can I provide value to the Microsoft ecosystem you ask. That’s the tricky spot; there are no fixed rules, minimum contributions or formula for getting in. That being said there are a few things you can do to get on the radar:

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Migrate to ASP.NET Core MVC from ASP.NET Framework MVC

.NET has been around for a while and has had many versions. We started the .NET Framework, moved into .NET Core, and now just .NET, kind of sort of :smile:. Keeping your application up with the latest version of .NET can be challenging. There are budgets to consider, time to learn the differences, and time to “fit in the migration.” Migrating or “upgrading” an ASP.NET MVC from .NET Framework to ASP.NET Core can be easy at times. Other times it can be just hard. There are no silver bullets to the migration as each project and solution is different. I’m going to walk you through one of the ways you can have a successful migration from ASP.NET MVC to ASP.NET Core MVC. At the end of the post, I’ll show you some gotchas that I have run across migrating applications.

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Thanksgiving and Silver Linings

While I am grateful for the old man bladder that woke me up at 2 am (AZ time) only to realize that my daughter was not home yet which kept me up (thank you parenting gene) which gave me all the energy in the world to wake up for the day, it did provide me with the energy to write this blog post. The Silver Lining. This time of the year in the U.S. we celebrate Thanksgiving, a holiday where we reflect and give thanks for the things we have. While 2020, and the pandemic has thrown a curve ball for many of us…

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So you want to be a Microsoft MVP

It’s very common for myself and other Microsoft MVPs to get asked “What does it take to become a Microsoft MVP” or “I want to be a Microsoft MVP, please tell me what I can do” when we speak at conferences or chat with each other on social networks. The short answer is most people outside of Microsoft do not know that the “secret formula” is. The long answer requires a little bit of understanding of how Microsoft evaluates potential candidates for receiving the award and what the propose of the award is. The rest of this post is my opinion on how you can become a Microsoft MVP. To see what Microsoft says about how you can become a Microsoft MVP visit http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/becoming-an-mvp.aspx For one to earn the Microsoft MVP award, Microsoft has to see the recipient as someone who provides value to the Microsoft ecosystem and is influential in the software industry. The award is given based on the previous year’s contributions to the Microsoft ecosystem and is from one of the product teams. Product teams include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft .NET and many others. Each product group budgets for a certain number of MVPs a year, depending on the specialty, there can be very few spots to many spots available to for new candidates. In addition to this, you need to get nominated by a Microsoft MVP or Microsoft employee for Microsoft to consider you. OK, so how can I provide value to the Microsoft ecosystem you ask. That’s the tricky spot; there are no fixed rules, minimum contributions or formula for getting in. That being said there are a few things you can do to get on the radar:

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Working with dotnet 10 Without Mucking Up Your Machine

This article provides insights on how to work with dotnet 10 effectively using Development Containers without affecting your local machine setup.

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So you want to be a Microsoft MVP

It’s very common for myself and other Microsoft MVPs to get asked “What does it take to become a Microsoft MVP” or “I want to be a Microsoft MVP, please tell me what I can do” when we speak at conferences or chat with each other on social networks. The short answer is most people outside of Microsoft do not know that the “secret formula” is. The long answer requires a little bit of understanding of how Microsoft evaluates potential candidates for receiving the award and what the propose of the award is. The rest of this post is my opinion on how you can become a Microsoft MVP. To see what Microsoft says about how you can become a Microsoft MVP visit http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/becoming-an-mvp.aspx For one to earn the Microsoft MVP award, Microsoft has to see the recipient as someone who provides value to the Microsoft ecosystem and is influential in the software industry. The award is given based on the previous year’s contributions to the Microsoft ecosystem and is from one of the product teams. Product teams include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft .NET and many others. Each product group budgets for a certain number of MVPs a year, depending on the specialty, there can be very few spots to many spots available to for new candidates. In addition to this, you need to get nominated by a Microsoft MVP or Microsoft employee for Microsoft to consider you. OK, so how can I provide value to the Microsoft ecosystem you ask. That’s the tricky spot; there are no fixed rules, minimum contributions or formula for getting in. That being said there are a few things you can do to get on the radar:

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Generate an Open Graph Profile Image with C#

Learn how to create dynamic Open Graph profile images using C# and .NET in this step-by-step guide.

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Connecting to a Protected API with Microsoft Identity Platform

In a previous post, I demonstrated how you can protect an ASP.NET Core Web API using the Microsoft Identity Platform. In this post, we are going to look at what you need to do to have an ASP.NET Core MVC application interact with the same protected API. It’s really easy, once you figure it out! :wink:

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Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Vault

Let’s take a look at how you can set up and configure Azure Key Vault to store Code Signing Certificates

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Enabling user authentication in Swagger using Microsoft Identity

I’ve been working on a personal project of mine called “JosephGuadagno.NET Broadcasting”. I know a terrible name, but I’ll work on a better name when it’s ready to be launched. :smile: This application is a web application that allows users to broadcast their content to their followers. One of the components of the application is an API that allows users to create and schedule their content in the application. The application is built using ASP.NET Core, Azure, Swagger, and other components. I recently secured the application using Microsoft’s MSAL library. Now, I’m going to show you how to enable user authentication in Swagger using Microsoft Identity.

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Using git tag for Presentations or Workshops

While we hope it never happens, demo failures happen when presenting talks or doing workshops. I do not know of a speaker that has not had a demo go bad while up on stage or live streams. Many of us have a back up plan… After searching around for solutions for this, I decided to use git tagging to solve this for me.

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Aspire Dashboard

Let’s explore the Aspire Dashboard for insights into your .NET projects.

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Embedding OneDrive Hosted PowerPoint slides in Jekyll Posts

I was chatting with Dave Brock (@daveabrock) about our .NET 5 presentations today (.NET 5 - What is it?). He mentioned that he wanted to “steal” my PowerPoint embed feature. Dave’s a nice guy and all but is it really stealing if you ask for it? :smile:

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Visual Studio Code File List Sort Order

This morning I was working on a blog post on getting started with Developer Containers. For this, I opened up Visual Studio Code and JetBrains Rider. Once I opened them side by side, I noticed that the files on the file list in their “Explorers’” were in a different sort order. This confused me because, at least I think, they have always been in the same order, dotted (.) folders first, then underscored (_) folders, then “regular”, then files. That was not the case for Visual Studio Code it was sorted with underscored (_) folders first, then dotted (.) folders, then “regular”, then files.

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Hello Microsoft Identity Platform

Hello, Microsoft identity platform!

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