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I recently moved a build-job for our front-end library over to Azure Pipelines. This build-job builds multiple TypeScript projects where each one produces its own NPM package using the Lerna … Continue Reading Update Azure Pipeline BuildNumber using PowerShell
For a new app I’m writing using ASP.Net MVC Core 2.1, EF Core 2.1 and ASP.Net Identity 2.1 I had to implement the sign-out / log-out functionality. You may ask … Continue Reading Fix sign-out with ASP.Net Identity Core 2.1
I was at a meet-up from the Software Craftsmanship Zürich on the topic of “No estimates QA session” with Vasco Duarte. I read a few things about “No estimates” (aka “NE”) … Continue Reading No estimates
My goal was to have a polyfill.js bundle generated by Webpack 4 that gets inserted into the apps index.html file before any other Javascript as it must load and install … Continue Reading Polyfill, Vendors and App Bundle using Webpack 4
Intro We use React for most of our current web-frontends. For older React Apps we used the MobX (databinding-library for MVVM) and then moved over to Redux. But even with … Continue Reading State-Handling in React apps
I’m relatively new to the stack of React, Redux and TypeScript but I had to do a lot of coding in this area over the past months. To get started … Continue Reading Structuring a React/Redux/TypeScript app
Again some notes from my recent React and Javascript/TypeScript learnings. I knew already how to use Promises by building method chains with .then() or .catch() to chain the asynchronous actions … Continue Reading Javascript async/await in React Components
As I am making myself familiar with modern frontend development based on React, TypeScript, Webpack and some more I learned something really cool. I like to write this down not … Continue Reading Compile-check LESS/CSS classnames using TypeScript and Webpack
I just spent a fair amount of hours calculating one MD5 hash code over multiple strings so I thought I write this down. Please note that the same principle can … Continue Reading Calculating MD5 Hash over multiple strings with C#
In a previous post I described how to set up the Ligatures font “Fira Code” in Visual Studio 2017. As I startet coding these days in Visual Studio for Mac … Continue Reading Visual Studio for Mac with Ligatures font ‘Fira Code’
We read about that Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) now not only support hosting your Nuget package feeds but also your source-symbols and source-symbol packages. This sounds very promissing in … Continue Reading How to build and publish Nuget packages with source-symbols to VSTS
In the current version of Visual Studio for Mac there is “Add file” template for xUnit Unit-Tests. Nice and easy. But how to run these tests? The problem is, that … Continue Reading How to run xUnit Tests in Visual Studio for Mac
I just got a bug-report where a field label is too long and (with the use of Bootstrap 3) doesn’t wrap but get cut off. So I took this opportunity … Continue Reading Line-breaks in webpages
Based on the post ‘Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures‘ from Scott Hanselman I tried if that works in for the classic Visual Studio too. Short answer: yes, the Ligatures support … Continue Reading Visual Studio 2017 support for Ligatures fonts like ‘Fira Code’
Over the last months the topic of estimations for developing software with many people arise many times. The thing with the story-points for estimations often seems to be confusing so … Continue Reading Estimations: Story-Points vs. Hours
In TFS and VSTS one can create a whole list of triggers that particular build-jobs. In the drop-down one can select an existing branch and all done. But if you … Continue Reading Trigger TFS and VSTS buildjobs using wildcards
