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February 23, 2017 / 1 Comment

Sharing your code as a NuGet is one of the best ways to ensure it gets used. Creating a NuGet package is quick and easy.
 
To start, we first need need a library to publish. I have already created My Awesome Library (MAL).

 
The first thing we need to do is download the latest NuGet CLI […]
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February 7, 2017 / No Comment

I am currently working on a large integration project that uses a PowerShell script within each sub-module to manage building, deploying and even launching Visual Studio. Due to a reliance on code namespaces matching with folder structures, these PowerShell scripts are sprinkled all over a large directory structure. Fortunately, they are well-named and exist in a predictable sub folder. Working […]
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January 14, 2017 / No Comment

I love being able to deploy to slots with Azure Standard and above App Services. These allow me a main production site, a slot for testing which has a separate database, and staging slot that shares a database with production.
The Problem
Whenever I swap the production and stage sites, all the users of the production site get logged out. […]
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January 14, 2017 / 3 Comments

The Problem
The Microsoft SQL Server LocalDb has become a staple tool for our development teams. A number of years ago they removed the version number from the connection string, which was a great move.
I recently needed to upgrade to 2016 in order to import a .bacpac file from an Azure database. So I installed SQL Server Express 2016 […]
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November 1, 2016 / 2 Comments

Immediate Opening!! IntelliTect is a growing computer engineering consulting firm seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Engineer.  If you live and breathe development innovation, interactive applications and learning new technologies for fun, check out the opportunity currently at IntelliTect.
 
We are looking for individuals with test automation experience who can help us accelerate delivery and improve the quality of enterprise […]
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October 14, 2016 / No Comment

Ever since C# 5.0 when the async/await pattern was introduced, the only supported return types were Task<TResult>, Task, and void (the latter only in exceptional cases). The problem with this limitation is that on occasions when the result is known immediately, it is still necessary to proceed with the formality of instantiating a Task even though no task is actually required […]
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October 14, 2016 / No Comment

While the deconstruct syntax is interesting for its convenience in assigning to a set of variables, what I believe has far broader implications is its potential to provide an “implicit conversion operator” and in a syntax that, quite frankly, is far easier to recall than the implicit cast operator.  For example, I can provide deconstructors that map to a string […]
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October 14, 2016 / No Comment

The problem with finalizers on their own is that they don’t support deterministic finalization (the ability to know when a finalizer will run). Rather, finalizers serve the important role of being a backup mechanism for cleaning up resources if a developer using a class neglects to call the requisite cleanup code explicitly.
For example, consider the TemporaryFileStream, which includes not […]
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October 14, 2016 / No Comment

The following is an Expert from Chapter 9 of Essential C#.
Finalizers allow developers to write code that will clean up a class’s resources. Unlike constructors that are called explicitly using the new operator, finalizers cannot be called explicitly from within the code. There is no new equivalent such as a delete operator. Rather, the garbage collector is responsible for […]
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September 29, 2016 / No Comment

IntelliTect will be delivering our three day intermediate training class on ASP.NET Core on January 10th, 11th and 12th.
Please reach out to get started: (509) 315-3400 or Info@IntelliTect.com, or click here for specific agenda information.