Build your first .NET Core 3.0 application in Linux

On Microsoft Build Live 2018, Microsoft announced their plans about .NET Core 3.0. The highlight of .NET Core 3 is support for Windows desktop applications, specifically Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), and UWP XAML. You will be able to run new and existing Windows desktop applications on .NET Core...


What's new in Visual Studio 2019 Preview

Visual Studio 2019 Preview includes many general improvements along with new features that optimize developer productivity and team collaboration. This post is about few major features Visual Studio 2019 Preview. The first change you will notice the splash screen, unlike the earlier version is it more graphical. Next change the...


IntelliCode for Visual Studio

Visual Studio IntelliCode is a new tool that enhances software development using artificial intelligence. IntelliCode helps developers and teams code with confidence, focus code reviews, and find issues faster. This post is about working with Visual Studio IntelliCode. IntelliCode comes as an extension in both Visual Studio and Visual Studio...


How To Map Custom Domain To Azure Web App

This post is about how To Map Custom Domain To Azure Web App. By default azure web app comes with a subdomain.azurewebsites.net. In this post I am explaining how to map a custom domain to an azure web app. You can map domain or sub domain to an azure web...


How display application version in ASP.NET Core

Most enterprise application soon or latter, have a requirement to trace out the version of a currently running application. This post shows how to display application version in a web app and how to increment it as part of build process. You can get the version of your app in...


How deploy ASP.NET Core preview versions to Azure App Service

This post is about how to deploy ASP.NET Core preview versions in Azure app service. In this post I am deploying an ASP.NET Core 2.2 Preview Web API to Azure web app. You can deploy the ASP.NET Core preview versions using following three approaches. Install the preview site extension. Deploy...


Running a NuGet Server on Docker

This post is about running a NuGet server on Docker. When you’re building .NET Core projects, NuGet packages are retrieved from nuget.org by default. Sometimes, however, you might want to use a local NuGet repository. This post helps you to configure a minimal NuGet server on Docker. The official NuGet.Server...


Configure App Service Authentication for Your Azure Web Apps

This post is about Configure App Service Authentication for Your Azure Web App. Azure Web App comes with an in built app authentication mechanism which helps you to enable authentication / authorization automatically without writing your own code for authentication. In this post I am using Twitter as the authentication...