Introducing AZDOI
For the last couple of months, I've had the pleasure of mentoring two talented .NET students, Andreas Siggelin and Elie Bou Absi. They've been working on various internal and customer projects, gaining practical experience in real-world software development. One project we've been collaborating on is AZDOI, a tool designed to document an Azure DevOps organization. After seeing its value in our work, we've decided to open source AZDOI, and in this blog post, I'll walk you through what it is and how you can use it.
SLNX Finally here📄
The Visual Studio solution files have long been an explicit and messy format, with lots of configuration that could be inferred from conventions. However, with the release of the latest .NET 9 SDK (9.0.200) earlier this month, things have changed. The new XML-based solution format, SLNX, is now out of preview, bringing clean, convention-based defaults while still allowing for explicit configuration when needed.
Introducing Devlead.Testing.MockHttp
There are undoubtedly many sophisticated and comprehensive solutions out there for mocking HTTP requests in .NET applications. However, I found myself with a very specific need: I wanted a lightweight, low-friction way to mock third-party HTTP APIs within my unit tests, without a lot of ceremony or complexity. I needed something that was "good enough" for my use case, providing in-memory request/response simulation that would let me validate my HTTP client interactions.
Preparing for .NET 9
.NET 9 is just around the corner with the General Availability (GA) release scheduled for November 2024. The .NET 9 RC 1 (released September 10, 2024) already comes with a Go-Live license, meaning it’s supported by Microsoft for use in production environments.
Introducing Blobify
I recently needed a seamless and efficient way to recursively archive and move local files to Azure Blob Storage with relative folder structure intact. That’s why I wrote Blobify, a .NET global tool that simplifies the process of transferring files from a local directory to an Azure Blob Storage container.
Introducing ARI
If you are working with Azure, you might have encountered the challenge of keeping track of all the subscriptions, resource groups, and resources that you have in your tenant. You might also want to document them in a clear and consistent way, for example, for compliance, auditing, or reporting purposes.
Introducing UnpackDacPac
If you work with SQL Server databases, you may have encountered DAC packages, or dacpacs, which are a way of packaging a database's schema and seed data for deployment or migration. Dacpacs are useful for deploying databases to different environments, such as development, testing, or production, but it's tooling comes with some limitations. For example, you cannot easily inspect the contents of a dacpac file without having a running instance of SQL Server.
Introducing BRI
Are you looking for a way to document your Azure Bicep modules in a simple and elegant way? If so, you might want to check out BRI, a .NET tool that I created to help you with that.
Joining the .NET Foundation Board of Directors
Yesterday the .NET Foundation announced the results from the 2021 Board of Directors Election. An election where the Foundation's members choose who they want to represent them on the board and this election set out to fill four out of seven seats.
Devlead.Statiq - Part 3 - IncludeCode 🤺
So I'm lazy... when doing a blog post, or documentation I don't want to repeat my self, and a prime example of that is when documenting Statiq features I found my self to want to both display both the "source" and the "result" without having to type the same thing twice nor update in multiple places and that's why I created the IncludeCode Shortcode and in this last of the three-part introductory blog post series about the NuGet package Devlead.Statiq I'll tell you all about it.