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Getting into Source Generators in .Net - .NET 103
Unsure about how and why to use Source Generators in .NET? Stefan Schranz explains them in an easy-to-understand way. He compares them to T4 templates and explains that there’s a new and more powerful way to generate code. Learn about how to get started, the limitations, and their use cases in this episode. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links Getting into source generators in .Net Picks Shawn- Watch The Witcher | Netflix Official Site Stefan- Watch Explained | Netflix Official Site Special Guest: Stefan Schranz.Sponsored By: Coaching | Top End Devs: Do you want to level up your career? or go freelance? or start a podcast or youtube channel? Let Charles Max Wood Help You Achieve Your Dreams Raygun : Raygun now offers a modern approach to error and performance monitoring. Start your 14-day free trial now. Top End Devs: Learn to Become a Top 5% Developer. Join our community of ambitious and engaged programmers to learn how.
Way Outside the Box ( Part 2 ft. Mark Miller) - .NET 102
It has been more than a year since we had Mark Miller on the podcast, which is too long, but he is back with us today to talk about outside of the box thinking. The first thing you need to know when thinking outside the box is that there is no such thing as impossible. Maybe it isn't financially feasible or would take an inordinate amount of time but it is not impossible. Next throw out any preconceived notions of what is required, untouchable or unquestionable. With those two in place you can do things like embed images in source code, use caps lock as a modifier or create complex live animations for a Twitch stream. Mark discusses how he did all of these and how he got himself and his team past impossible. What have you developed that you first thought was impossible? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Adventures in .NET Episode 30: .NET 029: CodeRushed with Mark Miller Pt1 Don’t Make Me Think CodeRushed - Twitch Picks Caleb- Watch Arcane | Netflix Official Site Mark- Cowboy Bebop | Official Trailer | Netflix Shawn- The Wheel of Time - Season 1 | Prime Video Wai- Night Cat Inflatable Sleeping Pads Mat Special Guest: Mark Miller.Sponsored By: Coaching | Top End Devs: Do you want to level up your career? or go freelance? or start a podcast or youtube channel? Let Charles Max Wood Help You Achieve Your Dreams Top End Devs: Learn to Become a Top 5% Developer. Join our community of ambitious and engaged programmers to learn how.
Way Outside the Box ( Part 1 ft. Mark Miller) - .NET 101
It has been more than a year since we had Mark Miller on the podcast, which is too long, but he is back with us today to talk about outside of the box thinking. The first thing you need to know when thinking outside the box is that there is no such thing as impossible. Maybe it isn't financially feasible or would take an inordinate amount of time but it is not impossible. Next throw out any preconceived notions of what is required, untouchable or unquestionable. With those two in place you can do things like embed images in source code, use caps lock as a modifier or create complex live animations for a Twitch stream. Mark discusses how he did all of these and how he got himself and his team past impossible. What have you developed that you first thought was impossible? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links Adventures in .NET Episode 30: .NET 029: CodeRushed with Mark Miller Pt1 Don’t Make Me Think CodeRushed - Twitch Picks Caleb- Watch Arcane | Netflix Official Site Mark- Cowboy Bebop | Official Trailer | Netflix Shawn- The Wheel of Time - Season 1 | Prime Video Wai- Night Cat Inflatable Sleeping Pads Mat Special Guest: Mark Miller.Sponsored By: Raygun : Raygun now offers a modern approach to error and performance monitoring. Start your 14-day free trial now. Top End Devs: Learn to Become a Top 5% Developer. Join our community of ambitious and engaged programmers to learn how.
The BIG 100
Adventures in .NET has come a long way in the last two years and has had a lot of great guests during that time. For our 100th episode the hosts, Shawn Clabough, Wai Ho Liu and Caleb Wells, pull up the list of episodes and take a trip down memory lane. We discuss some of our favorite topics, moments, picks and more. It has been a lot of fun and we are looking forward to the next two years and 100+ episodes. What is one of your favorite episodes? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast.
3 Fundamental Pillars You Need to Succeed as an Entrepreneur - BONUS
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Getting Certified in Azure - .NET 099
Azure trainer Brian Gorman joins us on the show and help us untangle all of the many Azure certification pathways. We discuss reasons someone might want to get certified as well as share tips on the best way to pass the exam. Panel Shawn Clabough Wai Liu Guest Brian Gorman Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links Training with Brian Become an Azure Expert Training Practical EFCore 6 on Amazon Codemash Serverless PreCompiler Become an Azure Administrator, Developer, DevOps, and Architect expert. LinkedIn: Brian Gorman, MCSD, MCT, 9x Azure, MS Azure MVP, (LION) Twitter: Brian Gorman ( @blgorman ) Picks Brian- SMACK Packs Brian- Leverage: Redemption (TV Series 2021– ) - IMDb Shawn- Watch Lost in Space | Netflix Official Site Wai- Xiaomi Mi Air Purifier 3H Special Guest: Brian Gorman.Sponsored By: Coaching | Top End Devs: Do you want to level up your career? or go freelance? or start a podcast or youtube channel? Let Charles Max Wood Help You Achieve Your Dreams Raygun : Raygun now offers a modern approach to error and performance monitoring. Start your 14-day free trial now. Top End Devs: Learn to Become a Top 5% Developer. Join our community of ambitious and engaged programmers to learn how.
New and Improved OWASP (Part 2) - .NET 098
If you are listening to this podcast you probably know about the OWASP Top 10. A new top 10 came out in September to replace the list from 2017 and there are a number of changes. Christian Wenz joins us to go through each item with a fine-tooth comb. The list has some new additions and consolidates some of the categories to try and make things clearer. One of the bigger changes is Broken Access Control moving from fifth to first. Want to hear more about Broken Access Control, Cryptographic Failures or Insecure Design? Then join us for this awesome OWASP episode. Which item on the top 10 have you seen most in the wild? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast. Panel Caleb Wells Shawn Clabough Guest Christian Wenz Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links OWASP Top Ten 2021 ASP.NET HSTS Preload List Submission ASP.NET Core Security Christian Wenz Twitter: Christian Wenz (@chwenz ) Picks Caleb- The Art of Impossible Christian- Watch Squid Game | Netflix Official Site Christian- Watch Money Heist | Netflix Official Site Shawn- Diablo® II: Resurrected Special Guest: Christian Wenz.Sponsored By: Coaching | Top End Devs: Do you want to level up your career? or go freelance? or start a podcast or youtube channel? Let Charles Max Wood Help You Achieve Your Dreams Top End Devs: Learn to Become a Top 5% Developer. Join our community of ambitious and engaged programmers to learn how.
New and Improved OWASP (Part 1 ) - .NET 097
If you are listening to this podcast you probably know about the OWASP Top 10. A new top 10 came out in September to replace the list from 2017 and there are a number of changes. Christian Wenz joins us to go through each item with a fine-tooth comb. The list has some new additions and consolidates some of the categories to try and make things clearer. One of the bigger changes is Broken Access Control moving from fifth to first. Want to hear more about Broken Access Control, Cryptographic Failures or Insecure Design? Then join us for this awesome OWASP episode. Which item on the top 10 have you seen most in the wild? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast. Panel Caleb Wells Shawn Clabough Guest Christian Wenz Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links OWASP Top Ten 2021 ASP.NET HSTS Preload List Submission ASP.NET Core Security Christian Wenz Twitter: Christian Wenz (@chwenz ) Picks Caleb- The Art of Impossible Christian- Watch Squid Game | Netflix Official Site Christian- Watch Money Heist | Netflix Official Site Shawn- Diablo® II: Resurrected Special Guest: Christian Wenz.Sponsored By: Coaching | Top End Devs: Do you want to level up your career? or go freelance? or start a podcast or youtube channel? Let Charles Max Wood Help You Achieve Your Dreams Raygun : Raygun now offers a modern approach to error and performance monitoring. Start your 14-day free trial now. Top End Devs: Learn to Become a Top 5% Developer. Join our community of ambitious and engaged programmers to learn how.
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Integration Testing - The Why and How - .NET 096
We talk to Martin Costello - a .NET developer with a QA background - about integration testing. We walk through the different types of automated testing and discuss the benefits and purpose for each type. Martin introduces us to useful tools he uses to write tests within the .NET ecosystem and discusses what we should and shouldn't be testing as well as the metrics that are important when evaluating how well tested your code is. Panel Shawn Clabough Wai Liu Guest Martin Costello Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Integration Testing Techniques for ASP.NET Core Reliably Testing HTTP Integrations in a .NET Application 1 Writing Logs to xunit Test Output Integration testing AWS Lambda C# Functions with Lambda Test Server Integration Testing ASP.NET Core Resources Protected with Antiforgery Using Application Parts GitHub - coverlet-coverage/coverlet: Cross platform code coverage for .NET GitHub - martincostello/sqllocaldb: SQL LocalDB Wrapper is a .NET library providing interop with the Microsoft SQL Server LocalDB Instance API GitHub - justeat/httpclient-interception: A .NET Standard library for intercepting server-side HTTP dependencies GitHub - martincostello/xunit-logging: Logging extensions for xunit GitHub - martincostello/lambda-test-server: A NuGet package that provides an in-memory test server for testing AWS Lambda functions GitHub - martincostello/dotnet-minimal-api-integration-testing: An example of integration testing ASP.NET Core 6 Minimal hosting and actions Twitter: Martin Costello ( @martin_costello ) Picks Martin- What We Do in the Shadows Shawn- Introducing Your Seattle Kraken Wai- Young Sheldon (Official Site) Watch on CBS Special Guest: Martin Costello .Sponsored By: Coaching | Top End Devs: Do you want to level up your career? or go freelance? or start a podcast or youtube channel? Let Charles Max Wood Help You Achieve Your Dreams Top End Devs: Learn to Become a Top 5% Developer. Join our community of ambitious and engaged programmers to learn how.
Let's Get Functional - .NET 095
Today's episode is all about functional programming. While C# isn't necessarily designed for functional programming you can still write functional code as long as you aren't a purist. Simon Painter joins us to talk about functional programming in general and how to use it in C# specifically. How do you write functional code in an object-oriented language? How do you use classes? What limitations do you put on your methods? We discuss these questions and also look at the new record type, Funcs, switch statements and Linq. Of course F# comes up during our discussion and we go through some of the differences and how C# has adopted a number of things from the F# language. Do you use functional programming in C#? Do you use the F# language? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast. Panel Caleb Wells Shawn Clabough Wai Liu Guest Simon Painter Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links Simon Painter Twitter: Simon Painter ( @madSimonJ ) Picks Caleb- Devs Shawn- Locke & Key | Netflix Simon- Anki - powerful, intelligent flashcards Simon- Undone Wai- DEV Community Contact Caleb: Caleb Wells Codes Twitter: Caleb Wells (@calebwellscodes) Linkedin: Caleb Wells Facebook: Caleb Wells Contact Wai: Linkedin: Wai Liu Facebook: Wai Liu Contact Shawn Twitter: Shawn Clabough (DotNetSuperhero) Special Guest: Simon Painter .Sponsored By: Coaching | Top End Devs: Do you want to level up your career? or go freelance? or start a podcast or youtube channel? Let Charles Max Wood Help You Achieve Your Dreams Top End Devs: Learn to Become a Top 5% Developer. Join our community of ambitious and engaged programmers to learn how. Raygun : Raygun now offers a modern approach to error and performance monitoring. Start your 14-day free trial now.
Azure Cognitive Services Etc - .NET 094
Azure has a lot of services, some of which don't get much fanfare. Azure Cognitive Services might be a service that you haven't heard much about but that has a lot of useful features. Sam Nasr joins us to look into some of their APIs including vision and speech. After that we talk about SQL Server FileTables for storing files and directories. Last but not least Sam tells us about his user group in Cleveland and how it has impacted his life and career. Have you used Azure Cognitive Services? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast. Panel Caleb Wells Wai Liu Guest Sam Nasr Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Level Up | Devchat.tv Links Sam Nasr LinkedIn: Sam Nasr Twitter: Sam Nasr ( @SamNasr ) Picks Caleb- Magium Sam- How I Built This with Guy Raz : NPR Wai- Who is Daniel Johns? Contact Caleb: Caleb Wells Codes Twitter: Caleb Wells (@calebwellscodes) Linkedin: Caleb Wells Facebook: Caleb Wells Contact Wai: Linkedin: Wai Liu Facebook: Wai Liu Special Guest: Sam Nasr.Sponsored By: Top End Devs Coaching: If you have questions about how to grow your skills or take your career to the next level, join us on our next weekly coaching call. It's completely free.
The future is in WebAssembly - .NET 093
Alexandre Malavasi walks us through Blazor WebAssembly and explains the journey and evolution of the framework to this current point and future state with the upcoming .NET 6 release. We also discuss WebAssembly more generally and its possible impact for other Single Page App frameworks in the future. Panel Shawn Clabough Wai Liu Guest Alexandre Malavasi Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Level Up | Devchat.tv Links Alexandre Malavasi - Medium LinkedIn: Alexandre Malavasi Twitter: Alexandre Malavasi ( @alemalavasi ) Picks Alex- DRAGON BALL OFFICIAL SITE Shawn- Govee WiFi Water Sensor Wai- ACT ROCKS Contact Wai: Linkedin: Wai Liu Facebook: Wai Liu Contact Shawn Twitter: Shawn Clabough (DotNetSuperhero) Special Guest: Alexandre Malavasi.Sponsored By: Top End Devs Coaching: If you have questions about how to grow your skills or take your career to the next level, join us on our next weekly coaching call. It's completely free. Raygun : Raygun now offers a modern approach to error and performance monitoring. Start your 14-day free trial now.
Blockchain on Azure - .NET 092
Today we take a look at how Microsoft is working with blockchain in Azure. Stefano Tempesta is a senior program manager at Microsoft on Azure confidential computing. Azure confidential computing focuses on securing data in use and one of the technologies they are working with is blockchain. Microsoft is working to develop blockchain solutions that can be used for things like digital signatures and supply chain management. We also find out how Microsoft is using blockchain on some internal projects. Since Blockchain technology is here to stay, Stefano discusses a number of future uses outside cryptocurrency. Even so we had to ask Stefano about bitcoin, etherium and NFTs. Have you used Blockchain? Do you see any use for it in the enterprise space? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast. Panel Caleb Wells Shawn Clabough Wai Liu Guest Stefano Tempesta Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Level Up | Devchat.tv Links Tempesta Space Blockchain Applied LinkedIn: Stefano Tempesta Twitter: Stefano Tempesta ( @stefanotempesta ) Picks Caleb- New World Shawn- .NET Conf 2021 Stefano- Minecraft | Code.org Wai- Ichika Nito - YouTube Contact Caleb: Caleb Wells Codes Twitter: Caleb Wells (@calebwellscodes) Linkedin: Caleb Wells Facebook: Caleb Wells Contact Wai: Linkedin: Wai Liu Facebook: Wai Liu Contact Shawn Twitter: Shawn Clabough (DotNetSuperhero) Special Guest: Stefano Tempesta.Sponsored By: Top End Devs Coaching: If you have questions about how to grow your skills or take your career to the next level, join us on our next weekly coaching call. It's completely free.
How Fluent Are Your Assertions? - .NET 091
Do you write unit tests? Do you use Test Driven Development (TDD)? Dennis Doomen does. He started an open source project called Fluent Assertions thirteen years ago that now has over 100 million downloads and has been forked over 400 times. We talk to Dennis about how Fluent Assertions got started and how it has evolved over the years. Dennis is a big proponent of TDD so we talk through some of the positives and negatives of using the methodology. Unit tests are something that most developers want to incorporate into their workflow but can't for one reason or another. Join us for this episode and maybe Dennis will be able to help you get over that hump. Are unit tests part of your workflow? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast. Panel Caleb Wells Shawn Clabough Guest Dennis Doomen Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Level Up | Devchat.tv Links The Continuous Improver Fluent Assertions C# Coding Guidelines Twitter: Dennis "Mr Fluent Assertions" Doomen ( @ddoomen ) Picks Caleb- Wonder Woman 1984 Dennis- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Dennis- Death Stranding Shawn- Halloween Shawn- MostlyDead Contact Caleb: Caleb Wells Codes Twitter: Caleb Wells (@calebwellscodes) Linkedin: Caleb Wells Facebook: Caleb Wells Contact Shawn Twitter: Shawn Clabough (DotNetSuperhero) Special Guest: Dennis Doomen.Sponsored By: Top End Devs Coaching: If you have questions about how to grow your skills or take your career to the next level, join us on our next weekly coaching call. It's completely free. Raygun : Raygun now offers a modern approach to error and performance monitoring. Start your 14-day free trial now.