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Derek Comartin

.NET Video Tutorials

I’ve started a YouTube channel last year to provide some video content to many of my blog posts.  I’ve never really mentioned it on this blog, which seems crazy.  Primarily these are .NET Video Tutorials as well as recorded talks that I’ve done at various conferences. Please take a look and subscribe if this is up your alley.  I plan on providing regular content on YouTube as well as continuing to do so on this blog.  Video just seems like a natural extension to provide content that is generally on this blog. Popular Videos How to Self Host ASP.NET Web API… Read More ».NET Video Tutorials

Migrating to SDK csproj

The SDK csproj files introduced with Visual Studio 2017 are a much needed improvement to the project files.    If you are creating a new .NET Core project or a .NET Standard library, either with VIsual Studio 2017 or the .NET CLI via dotnet new, it will generate the new SDK csproj.  What isn’t very clear to many is that you can use the new SDK format with full .NET Framework apps.  So this post will point out a really simple way for migrating to SDK csproj. SDK Benefits First, if you are unfamiliar with the new SDK csproj, here are… Read More »Migrating to SDK csproj

Microsoft Orleans Tutorial: Grains and Silos

This is the first post in the series were I’m actually getting into some code.  You will be able to follow along the journey of creating a practical web application using Microsoft Orleans.  This first post is really just setting the ground level to get familiar with the basics of Grains and Silos.  By the end of this post I’ll have a simple demo app that is a functioning ASP.NET Core as our client/frontend with a Orleans Silo hosting our Grains. Blog Post Series: Part 1 – Practical Orleans Part 2 – Grains and Silos Part 3 – Smart Cache… Read More »Microsoft Orleans Tutorial: Grains and Silos