DEV Community: Cecil L. Phillip 🇦🇬

On .NET Episode: Getting started with Azure Static Web Apps

Cecil L. Phillip 🇦🇬 — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 21:21:43 +0000

Azure Static Web apps makes it easier for developers to build and deploy their static apps to the cloud.

In this episode, Anthony Chu joins the show to talk to us about some of the benefits of using Azure Static Web apps and also show us what the local dev experience is like.

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On .NET Episode: Feature flags with .NET and Azure App Configuration

Cecil L. Phillip 🇦🇬 — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 11:47:37 +0000

In this episode, Scott Addie joins Christos Matskas to discuss feature management in .NET apps. An ASP.NET Core 5.0 Blazor Server app is used to demonstrate the following concepts:

Integrating the Feature Management library with Azure App Configuration
Accessing Azure Key Vault secrets from Azure App Configuration
Integrating Azure App Configuration with the .NET Configuration API
Testing locally in Visual Studio with the Azure Identity library
Toggling features on/off from the Azure portal

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Blazor sample app: https://github.com/scottaddie/OnDotNetConfiguration
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Azure SDKs: https://aka.ms/azsdk

On .NET Episode: Clustering in Orleans

Cecil L. Phillip 🇦🇬 — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 18:23:29 +0000

Using Microsoft Orleans you can build applications that scale from a single on-premises server to globally distributed and highly-available in the cloud.

In this episode, Reuben Bond joins Cecil to explain to us how we can use the builtin clustering feature in Orleans and how it works in the background.

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On .NET Episode: Setting up Observability in Orleans

Cecil L. Phillip 🇦🇬 — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 14:50:53 +0000

As we continue to explore Microsoft Orleans, Reuben Bond returns to chat with Rich about how we can implement observability in our Orleans applications. He reviews concepts like OpenTelemetry, call filters, and much more.

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On .NET Episode: A Journey to .NET MAUI

Cecil L. Phillip 🇦🇬 — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 19:22:13 +0000

.NET MAUI is the evolution of Xamarin.Forms and a major aspect of the upcoming .NET 6 release.

In this episode, Maddy Leger comes on the show to tell us what .NET MAUI is and what to expect as we get closer to the release.

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On .NET Episode: C# Source Generators

Cecil L. Phillip 🇦🇬 — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:10:59 +0000

The source generators feature was adding in .NET 5. They allow you to do interesting things like generate additional source files that will get added to a compilation.

In this video, Kathleen chats with Jared Parsons to find out what source generators are capable of.

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On .NET Episode: Building microservices with Tye

Cecil L. Phillip 🇦🇬 — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:09:23 +0000

Tye is a tool that makes developing, testing, and deploying microservices and distributed applications easier for developers. With very little knowledge of Docker or Kubernetes, developers can run locally orchestrated projects during development, and then publish to a hosted orchestrator of their choice.

In this video, Justin and Amiee come on to talk to us about how Project Tye works. They discuss the problems it solves, show us a few demos, and even talk a little about the future of the project.

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On .NET Episode: Secretless apps with .NET and Azure Key Vault

Cecil L. Phillip 🇦🇬 — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 16:09:38 +0000

In this episode, Scott Addie joins Christos Matskas to discuss secrets management in .NET apps. They cover the .NET SDK's Secret Manager tool as an option for your local development environment.

Next, the Azure Key Vault service is introduced as a more secure option for any environment. You'll see how these two offerings integrate with the .NET Configuration API in an ASP.NET Core Blazor Server app.

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Blazor sample app: https://github.com/scottaddie/OnDotNetConfiguration
Get your questions answered on the Microsoft Q&A for .NET: https://aka.ms/dotnet-qa
Azure Managed Identity: Managed identities for Azure resources | Microsoft Docs
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DevOps for ASP.NET Developers: Hosting NuGet Packages

Cecil L. Phillip 🇦🇬 — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:18:24 +0000

NuGet defines how packages for .NET are created, hosted, and consumed. Using NuGet feeds, you can make your packages publicly available or limit them to an audience, such as your internal team.

In this episode, Abel shows Jeremy some different options for publishing and hosting your own NuGet packages.

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Building real applications with Orleans

Cecil L. Phillip 🇦🇬 — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 14:03:00 +0000

Microsoft Orleans is a cross-platform framework for building distributed applications with .NET.

In this episode, Reuben Bond joins Cecil to talk about some of the capabilities of Orleans. Reuben even shows of an app he built for himself to learn Chinese. They cover application architecture, co-host alongside ASP.NET Core, and more.

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Inspecting application metrics with dotnet-monitor

Cecil L. Phillip 🇦🇬 — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:40:29 +0000

dotnet-monitor is a command line tool that makes it easier to get access to diagnostics information in a dotnet process.

In the episode, Rich is joined by Sourabh who explains to us the importance of gathering application diagnostics and also gives us a demo of how to run dotnet-monitor in Kubernetes

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On .NET Episode: Deep Dive into Many-to-Many with EF Core 5.0

Cecil L. Phillip 🇦🇬 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 14:21:04 +0000

On the surface many-to-many in EF6 and EF Core look very similar. However, under the covers the design in EF Core 5.0 is much more flexible and powerful

In this episode, Arthur Vickers returns to chat some more with Jeremy about some of the new features in Entity Framework Core 5. In particular, they’ll be diving deep into the building blocks of many-to-many. You’ll see how they can be configured to allow flexible mapping and access to the underlying join table.

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