After a long time, I am back at an annoying problem with Visual Studio. One ASP.Net application works when I start it through "With Debugging", but it fails when I try "Run Without Debugging":
In NUnit we can use the category attribute to classify tests. This allows us to mark long running tests and then tell our test runner to run them on demand but not with the regular test run. All we need to do is to add a category to a single test (or a class):
While refactoring the folder structure of a project I run into something strange. Git suddenly stopped to track a few files and marked them as deleted. That was not my intention then those files are needed. How can we fix this?
One of the most important ideas of agile software development is for me the short feedback cycle. Instead of working for weeks or even months at a problem on our own, we try to get feedback as fast as we can. That not only works with user stories; we can apply this idea to every task independently of its size.
I experienced a great example of this principle a few weeks ago. Using this example, I would like to give you an idea of how to put a principle into action. For the sake of brevity, I am using the format of a PAR statement (problem, action, result).
Of all the (programming) languages you can learn, I think SQL is the one that will help you the most throughout your career as a software developer. If you know the basics of SQL, you can solve set based problems directly in your database without writing a ton of code to do the same in an imperative way. And your applications will run much faster if they only fetch the data you really need.
Sometimes Visual Studio is strange. As I tried to disable a StyleCop rule in Visual Studio 2022, I got this error:
In this spring cleaning we had to update our last application to .Net 4.8. Unfortunately, the project is rather big:
We created a new build agent pool for Visual Studio 2022 in Azure DevOps. To check if everything works, we temporarily switched jobs to the new agent pool. That worked for most jobs, but not for all. A few where stubborn and keep running on the old agent pool. How can that be?
As it turns out there are three and not just two places where we can choose the agent pool.
While debugging a strange problem with a web application, I wanted to turn of JavaScript for one single tab in Chrome. As it turns out, you can do that in the developer tools without disabling JavaScript for the whole browser.
Blazor Train is a free, extensive course on Microsoft Blazor created by Carl Franklin. You may know Carl from the podcast .Net Rocks or from Music to Code By.
