Early last year I wrote a few blog posts about hosting Renovate Bot in Azure DevOps to automatically create Pull Requests when dependencies update, how to configure it to group updates and how to share configurations. I have recently had a look at using Renovate Bot on GitHub as well as I have some projects where Dependabot simply does not work very well out of the box and would require me to use my own GitHub Action and using their CLI tool. While this would likely work I would still have to...| Cheesy bits and bobs
In this post I describe a small native AOT .NET tool that I built to force a Windows PC to go to sleep after a timer expires| Andrew Lock | .NET Escapades
In this post we look at the new support for platform-specific .NET tools, so that you can pack your tools as self-contained or Native AOT packages| Andrew Lock | .NET Escapades
An uncomfortable precedent that should not be repeated - even for CVEs.| aaronstannard.com
I maintain MvvmCross which is a part of the .NET Foundation and one of the services member projects get is signing of software using certificates issued by the .NET Foundation. This way the project does not have to manage their own signing certificates and not have to spend money on these.| Cheesy bits and bobs
I'm a big fan of the Central Package Management feature of NuGet. This allows to manage your NuGet package versions centrally instead of at ...| bartwullems.blogspot.com
I have been using the super nice Central Package Management feature, enabled by the ManagePackageVersionsCentrally property in many of my .NET projects for quite a while. What it allows you, is to define the package versions of the NuGet packages you are referencing in your solution a single Directory.Packages.props file in the root of your repo. So instead of having package versions scattered around your csproj files, they are defined a single place and aligned throughout the solution.| Cheesy bits and bobs
Update 27th September: Added information about uploading symbols for symbolication of exception| Cheesy bits and bobs
A report sponsored by DevOps company JFrog suggests that executives over-estimate the extent to which developers within their […]| DEVCLASS
You may be using Refit already today in your App or you want to do so. It is a great little REST Api client library where you quickly through interfaces can start communicating with an API and without having to write a bunch of client code yourself.| Cheesy bits and bobs