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Project Specific Editor Settings in Visual Studio

When you work in multiple teams, you quickly end up with different ideas on how the code you write should be formatted. “Tabs or spaces?” is something developer can argue for hours, have strong opinions about and are unwilling to change them. With only one setting in Visual Studio you are constantly changing it, or you end up reformatting the code. Both is annoying and not really a working solution.

Visual Studio 2017 has a new feature called EditorConfig, who addresses exactly this problem. Even better, this is not a Microsoft only approach, but an initiative by multiple vendors and projects (like JetBrains, GitHub, and many more.). You can find more details on EditorConfig.org, including examples and links to various projects using it.

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Finding Security Vulnerabilities in your Dependencies with Dependency-Check

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) may be best known for its top 10 list of the most critical web application security risks. However, the project not only talks about problems; they offer a wide range of documentation to fix those problems (like the .NET Security Cheat Sheet) and publish tools like the OWASP Dependency-Check. This tool can help you to address number 9 of the top 10 list – using components with known vulnerabilities.

5 Mind-Blowing Presentations at NDC Oslo 2018

This year I did not just attend NDC Oslo, I got the chance to contribute as a speaker to this great conference. That shift of perspective made me much more appreciative of the hard work that goes into a talk and how much it takes to stand in front of such a great and welcoming audience.

The five talks I selected for this post had an impact on me that went far beyond of being entertained for an hour. I spend a lot of time thinking about what I heard and I guess so will you. Those presentations may look as if they are at the wrong place for a tech conference, but trust me, they are as important as any technical talk. I am glad the organizers put them in. They challenge how we think, not only about the systems we use and build, but also about how we work with others and make our world a better place.