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Developer Links : March 22, 2018

March 22, 2018
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.NETConverting Your ASP.NET Web Forms Application to ASP.NET MVCAnnouncing .NET Core 2.1 Preview 1CloudDeploying ...

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Tumbling down the rabbit hole

March 16, 2018
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I have noticed that there are two ways that I tend to engage with new programming problems and paradigms. The first is ...

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JSON numbers changed with leading zeros

March 03, 2018
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I had this interesting case I was triaging last week where a consumer of our API was complaining that we were changing ...

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Using Rebase in Visual Studio

February 26, 2018
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I mentioned a couple of weeks back how I am using Visual Studio to manage my local feature branches, however, I did not ...

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What would C# look like without null?

February 21, 2018
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I was happily and randomly tweeting yesterday (as you do) and it occurred to me that I take null for granted. More ...

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OS GitHub contributions with Visual Studio

February 07, 2018
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I had a really productive discussion with my extended development teammates last week, I was able to give a high level ...

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Converting a HttpHandler to Middleware

January 18, 2018
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Back in the day we would write Http Handlers to process requests that needed to be tied to a particular endpoint while ...

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Giving thanks!

January 14, 2018
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I am genuinely grateful for life that I have been gifted and for the many privileges that I have been afforded. I ...

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Do we still upgrade PCs?

January 03, 2018
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Many years ago it was both necessary and indeed a right of passage to upgrade some part of your PC. We would upgrade ...

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