Unit testing Finalizers in C#
Finalizers are generally non-deterministic. If you leave the GC to its job, it will finalize eligible objects at some point. This doesn't work very well for us if we are needing to test that our…
ASP.NET Core 2.0 - Thinking about the future
It has been an eventful week in ASP.NET Core land. It started with the discovery by community member and ASP.NET Core contributor Kévin Chalet that a PR was being merged into the release…
Smarter build scripts with MSBuild and .NET Core
With the migration back to MSBuild for .NET Core projects, a few new avenues are opened up to us as developers when it comes to managing our projects. Package references are now part of the…
An approach to building .NET Core apps using Bamboo and Cake
Bamboo is my build server of choice because I find it simple to setup and has great integration with the rest of the Atlassian stack, such as our JIRA and Bitbucket Server instances. Bamboo has…
ASP.NET Core 1.0 - Routing - Under the hood
Routing was introduced to .NET with the release of ASP.NET MVC 1.0 back in 2009. Routing is the process of taking an input URL, and mapping it to a route handler. This integrated…