Oct242020 by Subhankar SarkarNo Comments
Visual Studio Codespaces – Bringing the Power of Cloud to Your Development Environment

Visual Studio Codespaces – Bringing the Power of Cloud to Your Development Environment

Visual Studio Codespaces - Bringing the power of Cloud to your development environment Some background info first So, you are a developer, you develop your magical apps using Visual Studio and often time get frustrated with the sluggish development environment? which in turn kills your productivity? And guess what, to solve this, you plan to upgrade the hardware of your computer (is it practical?)? what if I tell you without upgrading your development environment's hardware, you can achieve super-productivity even using your aging computer?Sounds exciting? isn't it? Well, this is possible with Visual Studio Codespaces.Visual Studio Codespaces is a cloud-powered development environment. With Codespace you use your Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to connect to your code running in some remote cloud-hosted container. Nothing runs on your local computer…
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Jul202019 by Subhankar SarkarNo Comments
.NET Core WebJob Console app CI/CD using Azure DevOps Pipelines

.NET Core WebJob Console app CI/CD using Azure DevOps Pipelines

.NET Core WebJob Console App CI/CD using Azure DevOps Pipelines Background WebJobs is a feature of Azure App Service that enables you to run a program or script in the same context as a web app, API app, or mobile app as per Microsoft Document. If you build your WebJob Console app in .NET Framework then its very easy to build and deploy the WebJob with the parent API or Web App as by linking it to Web/Api App as below - The above linkage of WebJob console application with parent Web/API app is not supported by design in .NET Core. So what do we do ? In this Article we are going to see how we can build a .NET Core WebJob Console app separately from the parent Web/API…
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Jun172019 by Subhankar SarkarNo Comments
WSL2 for Dockerized .NET Core application

WSL2 for Dockerized .NET Core application

Build Containerised .NET Core Application using Docker on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 When first Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) launched, I tried to use it as a Linux development platform and ran my first Cross Platform .NET Core Web Application and I found it amazing.  With the popularity of Microservices, containerised applications with Docker is one of the hottest topic in the market. While learning this piece of tech I thought of using my WSL to use it as my Docker development platform natively on experimental basis.While doing many failed attempts to install and trying to configure Docker in WSL1, Microsoft announced the release of WSL2 on their 2019 Build conference.Also, it was announced that a full-blown Linux Kernel is shipping with Windows 10. Naturally my expectation for…
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Sep302018 by Subhankar SarkarNo Comments
Azure DevOps – manage your application lifecycle in cloud

Azure DevOps – manage your application lifecycle in cloud

Manage your Application's lifecycle in Cloud using Azure DevOps Infographic : Application Lifecycle Management in Azure DevOps What is Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) ? Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the product lifecycle management of computer programs. It encompasses requirements management, software architecture, computer programming, software testing, software maintenance, change management, continuous integration, project management, and release management. [Source wikipedia.] An ALM tool should have the capability to maintain all the aspects of a software lifecycle, such as capturing the ideas, users requirement, planning of work, maintaining source code, deploying code using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). It should also provide real time project insights to the key stake holders of a project. We can think of an ALM software as one stop shop for a software project/product management as a…
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Jul212018 by Subhankar Sarkar1 Comment
Make your .NET Core HTTP endpoint to react to Custom Azure Event Grid Events

Make your .NET Core HTTP endpoint to react to Custom Azure Event Grid Events

Custom Azure Event Grid event handling with .NET Core WebHook Some background first In todays Cloud first world Event Driven Architecture  (EDA) and reactive programming are gaining a lot of traction in Microservices architecture design and development paradigm. In the event driven architecture scenario WebHook plays a huge role doing various stuffs in a reactive manner with Pub-Sub model. When a HTTP endpoint responds to a request (instruction) and does some stuffs like GET, POST, DELETE then we can safely call it API,  but when a HTTP endpoint responds on it's own when certain event occurs then we can call it a WebHook. For a WebHook to respond to certain events it has to subscribe to an event publisher with it's HTTP endpoint URL. In the current context WebHook is the subscriber of…
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Mar252018 by Subhankar SarkarNo Comments
SQL Information Protection – why should you care and what you can do about it?

SQL Information Protection – why should you care and what you can do about it?

SQL Information Protection - why should you care? A little background In today's world data privacy and protection is one of the biggest concern for the organizations across the globe. Most of the apps, websites we use today captures some sort of personal data like email address, phone number, date of birth and even our credit card information in some form or the other. Recent data breaches are making app and website users less confident on the companies who manages their data. This is hampering the brand image and trust for the companies.  One of such recent Cambridge Analytica Facebook data scandal triggered movement like #DeleteFacebook. This caused billions of dollars for brand like Facebook and trust factors went negative for them.To help protect Citizen's personal and sensitive data -  data…
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Dec242017 by Subhankar SarkarNo Comments
SQL Server on Linux – Install and use it with SQL Operations Studio

SQL Server on Linux – Install and use it with SQL Operations Studio

SQL Server 2017 on Linux - install database engine and manage it using cross platform SQL Operations Studio. As we already know that Microsoft loves Linux and similarly SQL Server also fell in love with Linux. On October 2017 Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL Server 2017 for Linux. This relationship brought us many goodness in the table. This gives us freedom of Platform of our choice, unprecedented security of Linux, pricing of opensource with all great features, this are just few examples. Few of the studies also found that moving secondary databases to Linux paid for itself in less than nine months. Now you can imagine the possibilities of this movement.To bring the SQL Server on Linux experience - in continuation of my previous post, in this post…
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Dec122017 by Subhankar SarkarNo Comments
Windows Subsystem for Linux – build ASP.NET Core MVC web app in Linux

Windows Subsystem for Linux – build ASP.NET Core MVC web app in Linux

Build Cross Platform ASP.NET Core MVC Web application in Windows subsystem for Linux. Have you ever imagined of running .NET in Linux? it sounded like a crazy idea or a wildest dream of a Microsoft stack developer up until a couple of years ago. But not anymore... this is a reality now. With Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in Windows 10 we can do many crazy things, one of such thing is running .NET applications inside Linux (yes your wildest dream is not a dream anymore, it's a reality now).Today we are going to witness one of such things by building a ASP.NET Core MVC web application in Linux. We are going to install .NET Core in native Ubuntu installation. Will build a MVC web application and then run it…
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