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The Azure Vault, PGP, and other matters Part 1
Let’s step back into cloud space for a moment. I had this challenge to see if I could do some decrypting of partner files. A simple matter, well yes and no (it does have some interesting parts to deal with). First off, the files encrypted here are with PGP. Now this type of file protecting is not hard once you’ve gained an understanding of how to create and use keys. I’m not going to go into the deep end around PGP. There’s plenty of that for you to find on the internet. But I will need to mention a matter or two about how PGP key files are formatted and…
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Port Desk Top UI App
Not really ready for prime time , but here’s an article stepping through the how-to and the workaround for the fact that Core has yet to add the visual designer for, ya you guessed the actual Windows Form- that seems to be a rather glaring miss if we are talking about porting and doing traditional windows UI forms development going forward. .NET Blog | How to port desktop applications to .NET Core 3.0 In this post, I will describe how to port a desktop application from .NET Framework to .NET Core. I picked a WinForms application as an example. Steps for WPF application are similar and I?ll describe what needs…
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Using Kestrel for ASP Core Apps
As I was looking about with some of the Core 2.2 notes, I came across some interesting notes on how to tweak about with Kestrel settings…. I’m not sure I like putting Kestrel options up the in the Main Program builder. I tend to prefer these to collect in the startup class, but I get point of why Kestrel needs to be handled close to the Builder (it is after all the html service handling web calls). Shall we begin… So up in program.cs we do our normal Web Host Builder: public class Program { public static void Main(string[] args) { var host = CreateWebHostBuilder(args).Build(); MigrateDatabase(host); host.Run(); //CreateWebHostBuilder(args).Build().Run(); } private…
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App Registration Link
This seems to want to move me off to Azure… But for now the link still works… https://apps.dev.microsoft.com
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Play with dotnet tool and a BOT
I was poking about with cleaning up my DotNet Core sdks and in my travels a found this thing call dotnet tools… Let the experiment begin… To credit the source of an article on Microsoft go here: dotnet tool Do a console project with dotnet: dotnet new console -o botsay Then, of course, cd into the botsay directory… and edit the Program.cs (yeap you can do this in VS 2017) Here’s the main method: using System.Reflection; static void Main(string[] args) { if (args.Length == 0) { var versionString = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly() .GetCustomAttribute<AssemblyInformationalVersionAttribute>() .InformationalVersion .ToString(); Console.WriteLine($"botsay v{versionString}"); Console.WriteLine("-------------"); Console.WriteLine("\nUsage:"); Console.WriteLine(" botsay <message>"); return; } ShowBot(string.Join(' ', args)); } The ShowBot method is this:…
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Getting Ready for Visual Studio 2019? We are at Preview 2
Looking at what is coming for Visual Studio 2019… It’s time to start looking and trying…. Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 is now available The official source of product insight from the Visual Studio Engineering Team blogs.msdn.microsoft.com
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Studio 2019 Preview 2 and Xamarin
Looking over the preview and I see some nice UI tweaks a coming. Check it out: What’s New in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 for Xamarin
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.Net Core 3 the next version
I still have not gone down the full .Net Core 3 path- but soon yes… Meanwhile MSDN mag has good preview on the topic: .NET Core – What’s Coming in .NET Core 3.0 msdn.microsoft.com
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Azure: Static Web Pages Article
I’m not really into “Static” web pages, but an interesting read popped up on the Azure Blog. Static websites on Azure Storage now generally available Today we are excited to announce the general availability of static websites on Azure Storage, which is now available in all public cloud regions. .microsoft.com
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Azure Deep Dive Class Completed.
Finished up a week of deep dive into Azure Logic Apps, Service Bus, and Integration accounts. I need to write up some conversations…. and of course, some setup walk-throughs.
