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How to Create an Event Using the Meetup.com API

Meetup.com has a well-documented API that gives you all the information about your events you can think of. Getting the attendees, the pictures taken at your event or the comments is easy, you can even try everything out online without writing a single line of code. That great developer support unfortunately ends rather abruptly when it comes to creating an event using the API. There is no online demo and the documentation itself guides you into the wrong direction.

How to Work with JSON in .Net

Json.NET by Newtonsoft is the de-facto standard when it comes to work with JSON in .Net. The library is very popular, offers great flexibility and is easy to use. Let’s look on what you have to do to serialize and deserialize objects to JSON.

Code Search in Azure DevOps Done Right

The code view in Azure DevOps is a great help: without installing any IDE, you can see the whole code of a project. You can brows through all the files and even make changes directly inside your web browser. The only downside is that you miss a lot of the helpful search options you get in Visual Studio. Luckily for us, the Code Search extension gives us exactly that.

Migrating the User Group Data – Part 1: Extraction

The website of the .Net User Group Bern worked without much change for nearly 10 years. A refresh was necessary and that gave us two options: Just use a shiny new design or use it as an opportunity to learn new skills and interesting technology. We went with the later one and one of the learning opportunities I picked was the migration of all the data. Our small data set is great to try out different approaches and I hope my post can help you with much bigger migrations as well.

How to Use Security Tokens with Azure DevOps

Over the last weeks I run in to constant login problems with my Git repositories hosted in Azure DevOps. One day everything works, the next day I cannot connect. I seems as if Microsoft is pushing more actively the move to personal access tokens and the older approach with alternate credentials comes to an end. Those tokens offer more flexibility and you can create them in just a few simple steps.