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Creating Simple Tasks in .NET with Bullseye

How many times have you created a console application to run specific tasks in .NET?  These tasks could be processing a file, making some HTTP call to an external service or even helping in your build process.  Ultimately ending up with a collection of different tasks which often have dependencies on each other. I just discovered a project called Bullseye by Adam Ralph which really feels like a simple task runner.  But better yet, is just a library you add to your own console application and not its own process itself. Bullseye Bullseye is a .NET package for describing and running targets… Read More »Creating Simple Tasks in .NET with Bullseye

Roundup #15: LittleForker, TDD: Where Did It All Go Wrong, net461/netstandard2, Bing on netcore21

Here are the things that caught my eye this week.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. LittleForker An exploration in the launching and supervision of processes. Written to scratch and itch where the primary use case is installing a single service (on windows) who then spawns other process as part of a multi-process application. A pretty cool project that I recently stumbled upon by Damian Hickey.  I plan on experimenting with this soon for a current project. Link: https://github.com/damianh/LittleForker   TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong Since… Read More »Roundup #15: LittleForker, TDD: Where Did It All Go Wrong, net461/netstandard2, Bing on netcore21

Roundup #14: NuGet Source Repo Link, RESTful API Guidelines, Async/Await, High Perf .NET

Here are the things that caught my eye this week.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. NuGet Source Repository Link Minor feature rolled out to the @nuget gallery today. This should make it easier to find the GitHub repo which matches @aspnet packages. #dotnet pic.twitter.com/vggwrYBarL — Nate McMaster (@natemcmaster) August 15, 2018 Small but really useful feature.  You can specify RepositoryUrl and RepositoryType in your csproj.  For example: View the code on Gist. Link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/reference/msbuild-targets Zalando RESTful API and Event Scheme Guidelines Zalando’s software architecture centers around decoupled microservices that… Read More »Roundup #14: NuGet Source Repo Link, RESTful API Guidelines, Async/Await, High Perf .NET