The web site and blog of Tim Heuer, Program Manager for Microsoft XAML and author of Callisto, a WinRT XAML Toolkit. A resource to learn how to develop software with XAML technologies. This blog provides information on how to get started with XAML, S
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Deploying .NET Core 3 apps as self-contained

Yay! .NET Core 3.0 is now available!  You now are migrating your apps and want to get it to your favorite cloud hosting solution.  But they may not have it quite ready yet and you are still eager to deploy to production.  No worries, we have a solution for you.As our documentation explains on different deployment models we have for .NET Core apps (simplified);Framework-dependent...

Sun Oct 20, 2019 23:16
Make your terminal smarter with PowerShell and Set-Location

On this lazy Sunday morning I was catching up among the feeds and saw Scott Hanselman’s post about customizing Windows Terminal a bit more.  I had already done this a while back and got my terminal all fancy looking with those cool Powerline fonts and such.  It’s a simple thing, but actually does make my experience a bit nicer to work in the terminal...

Sun Oct 20, 2019 20:15
Deploying .NET Core 3 apps as self-contained

Yay! .NET Core 3.0 is now available!  You now are migrating your apps and want to get it to your favorite cloud hosting solution.  But they may not have it quite ready yet and you are still eager to deploy to production.  No worries, we have a solution for you.As our documentation explains on different deployment models we have for .NET Core apps (simplified);Framework-dependent...

Fri Oct 4, 2019 01:49
Navigating the new Windows Terminal capabilities and code

I don’t like C++.  There I said it…got it out of the way.  It’s not a fair statement, as I know many people who do and think I’m crazy for not only writing code in C++.  As someone who didn’t come from a traditional computer science background, I just never ‘grew up’ on C or C++ as fundamentals.  NOTE: You can hear more about my journey (and others)...

Tue May 14, 2019 00:52
How I solved Jessica’s NYC Parking Problem with Twitter, Twilio and NO CODE

I’ve been reading a lot of great content on dev.to lately (seriously you should go check it out and follow some tags…great community there) and came across this great headline “How I Solved My NYC Parking Problem With Python, the Search Tweets API and Twilio” by Jessica Garson, a Developer Advocate at Twitter.  Jessica was trying to solve a problem...

Fri Apr 19, 2019 16:53
Making my NuGet Package more trusted with signing and doing it all in Azure DevOps Pipelines

Like most things in life, this all started with someone’s message on Twitter.Blogged: Why NuGet Package Signing Is Not (Yet) for Me. https://t.co/4RSes2Bo4r A close look at NuGet package signing feature, where it's useful, and in which ways it falls short.— Boom Haackalacka (@haacked) April 3, 2019 You can code-sign a NuGet Package?  I don’t know why...

Fri Apr 5, 2019 03:05

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