Yesterday I blogged about using BitBucket Pipelines with ASP.NET Core and how you can use Microsoft’s public Docker image to automate your builds.

Not completely satisfied, I wanted to have my client assets built using webpack too this way....

Yesterday Atlassian announced BitBucket Pipelines, a new feature of BitBucket that will replace Bamboo Cloud (which has an EOL of 2017). I was immediately drawn because of three reasons:

1. We use BitBucket as our source control host
2. I...

• Read a bunch of .NET related books. From each book,...

Dave Newman recently announced that he’s leaving .NET for Ruby. Fine. But he’s giving a bunch of reasons that I strongly disagree with.

Dave thinks that the .NET community is “cut off from the world”, because he’s seen “developers...

Today, while checking up on one of my favorite game franchises, I ran into this article about how Treyarch are going to “defeat” the problem of pre-owned games. For a minute I was under the impression this article was...

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In my last post, I was explaining how I wanted to return pictures from my ASP.NET MVC based application. In short, this is what I did:

[ReplaceMissingPicture(Picture = "~/Content/Images/nopicture.png", MimeType = "image/png")] public ActionResult Picture(int...
      

While working on my pet project, I wanted to return pictures stored in the database. This is actually pretty much child’s play in ASP.NET MVC, and is well documented elsewhere.

Practically, it boils down to this:

public ActionResult...
      

After asking this question on Stack Overflow, I went out and used HandleError for my application exception handling. It works, as long as you turn on the customErrors configuration element. Then, after applying the HandleError attribute twice on my...

While setting up my development machine for the coming weeks, I needed to make a number of tough decisions. The first decision was whether to go with SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008. I figured it was not a...

Some people, when starting a new project decide they need a "base library" of some sorts to put all the neat little tricks in that somehow were "left" out of the .NET Framework. They need some wrapper around some functions...

I like Joel Spolsky. He's an interesting guy, and he writes interesting stuff, and I've been reading him for years now. I'm subscribed to his mailing list, but it had gotten awful quiet for a long while now. I...

I was trying out Resharper this week. I saw it being used on some screencast and thought "wow, that sounds like something useful", but after a week I gotta say, it just kept getting in my way. You have to...

For my next project, I'm looking into using a Dependency Injection framework. For those of you who don't know what it is, I would like to forward you to this article from Martin Fowler. The book I'm reading uses...

So in the previous post I wrote that I'm learning about ASP.NET MVC. Even though I'm a proud card-carrying member of the MCP club with my ASP.NET certification (version 1.1!), I haven't actually produced a lot of working .NET code...