Adventures in .NET

Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Focus Blocks Bundle" Deal Coupon Code: "THRIVE" for a GIANT discount   Are you looking at all the layoffs and uncertainty going on and wondering if your company is the next to cut back?  Or, maybe you're a freelancer or entrepreneur who is trying to figure out how to deliver more value to gain or retain customers?  Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to discuss the one thing that both of them use to more than double their productivity on a daily basis.  Mani has read 1,000's of productivity books over the last several years and has formulated a methodology for getting more done, but found that he lacked the discipline to follow through on his plans.  The he found the one thing that kept him on track and made him so productive that he is now getting all of his work done and was able to live the life he wants.  Chuck also weighs in on how Mani's technique has worked for him and allows him to spend more time with his wife and kids, run a podcast network, and a nearly full time contract.  Join the episode to learn how Chuck and Mani get into a regular flow state with their work and consistently deliver at work. 

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In this episode we dig into a few technologies that can be used together to great effect. We have discussed Backend for Frontend (BFF) before but in this episode the focus is a bit different. As it turns out, an awesome acronym like BFF gets reused. Setting up a BFF works well with the new minimal APIs that were included in .NET 6. Then we tie everything together with Darker, which is similar to MediatR, but with minimal configuration and features built for BFFs. We had a lot of fun discussing this tech stack with Jonny Olliff-Lee and hope you have just as much fun listening to it. In the episode we ask our listeners to help us with the best way to say BFF. Listen to the episode and let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast.

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Links

• Using .NET 6 Minimal APIs and Darker to build BFFs | by Jonny Olliff-Lee | Medium
• Minimal APIs quick reference
• Backends for Frontends pattern - Azure Architecture Center
• GitHub: DevJonny
• Jonny Olliff-Lee - Medium
• Twitter: @DevJonny

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• Caleb - Watch The Peripheral - Season 1 | Prime Video
• Jonny - Sabaton
• Shawn - Rainbow Braces - Visual Studio Marketplace
• Shawn - Viasfora - Visual Studio Marketplace

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Diyaz Yakubov comes on the show this week to talk about a few tools he's using to make his life easier at work. We talk about NDepend - a code analyser that you can use on your IDE or CI/CD pipeline to give you recommendations on your code structure and then we move onto C4Model - a new graphical notation language and SharpLab - a neat little online code playground that can convert your code to IL or ASM.

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Links

• The article about .NET tools
• The C4 model for visualising software architecture
• Improve your .NET code quality with NDepend
• SharpLab
• try.dot.net
• GitHub: DiyazY

Picks

• Diyaz - CLR via C#, 4th Edition | Microsoft Press Store
• Shawn - Lost something? Search through 91.7 million files from the ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s
• Wai- Watch BLOCKBUSTER | Netflix Official Site

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Jakub Chodounsky from the C# Digest newsletter joins us this week. We talk about why he started the mailing list and how he's managed to build up a subscriber base of over 24k. We shared why he keeps it going and the benefits he's gotten from engaging with the .NET community even though as a CTO, he may not be actively cutting code anymore. We also go into some of these recent blog articles and talk about some open-source projects that he thinks is fairly neat.

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Links

• C# Digest - A newsletter about C# and .NET
• Programming Digest - A newsletter about programming and technology
• Tech Lead Digest - A newsletter about building better teams, culture, and...
• React Digest - A newsletter about React
• GitHub - mxgmn/MarkovJunior
• GitHub - veler/DevToys
• GitHub - microsoft/Power-Fx
• GitHub - lepoco/wpfui
• GitHub - miroslavpejic85/p2p
• GitHub - lars-berger/GlazeWM
• Jakub Chodounsky

Picks

• Jakub- Watch The Billion Dollar Code | Netflix Official Site
• Jakub- Flight of the Conchords
• Shawn- Cloud PCs
• Wai- The Umbrella Academy (TV series) - Wikipedia

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.NET has been cross-platform for a number of years now starting with the release of .NET Core. Most of the developers that we know work on Windows computers so we don't have first or second hand knowledge of using .NET on other operating systems. Today that is going to change. Maarten Merken has been doing .NET development on a Mac for more than two years and he joins us on the podcast to discuss his experience. We talk about different versions of .NET, debugging, virtualization, IDE's and more. When it comes to IDE's Maarten feels like JetBrains Rider is the best cross-platform IDE out there. Are you doing cross-platform development with .NET? If not, have you thought about trying it? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast.

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Links

• .Net Development on the M1 Mac. I switched to a MacBook about 2 years… | by Maarten Merken | Medium
• With .NET 6, comes Prise 6 🎉
• Prise, A .NET Plugin Framework
• Twitter: @M3rken

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• Caleb- She-Hulk: Attorney At Law | Disney+ Originals
• Maarten- Rider: The Cross-Platform .NET IDE from JetBrains
• Shawn- Brio 505 Business Webcam | Logitech
  
  

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"I thought WPF was dead" is usually one of the first things that Kevin Bost hears when discussing today's topic. WPF is not dead. In fact, WPF is supported by .NET 6 and a plethora of third-party apps, extensions and packages. Kevin has been working with WPF for a long time and has become an expert on the framework. In today's episode we discuss some of the strengths and weaknesses of WPF, competing frameworks, open-source projects and the path forward. If you need to develop desktop apps for Windows, WPF is still the most mature framework out there. Have you worked with WPF? Are you currently developing applications with WPF? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast.

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Links

• Kevin Bost - IntelliTect
• GitHub - MaterialDesignInXAML/MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit
• Windows Community Toolkit Documentation - Windows Community Toolkit
• Debugging WPF - Visual Studio (Windows)
• What is MahApps.Metro?
• GitHub - snoopwpf/snoopwpf
• GitHub - Keboo/XAMLTest
• KitoKeboo - Twitch
• Kevin Bost
• Twitter: @kitokeboo

Picks

• Caleb- DuckDuckGo Email Protection
• Kevin- Blood on the Clocktower
• Shawn- Watch The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 | Prime Video
• Wai- Bob's Burgers

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Our jobs are hectic and there are always multiple priorities we have to stay on top of. Mohammed Osman joins us on the show and runs us through the tools and methodologies he uses to stay productive both as an individual and also on a team.

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Links

• Microsoft Azure Certifications Blueprint
• Smarter Code
• Toggl
• Priority Planner for Highly Effective People
• Loom
• Twitter: @cognitiveosman

Picks

• Mohammed- Snowden
• Shawn- House of the Dragon
• Wai- Railways - Train Simulator

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If the title of this episode didn't give it away... we are talking about logging into and accessing the content in web applications. Albert Starreveld spends a lot of his time implementing authentication and authorization workflows for his clients. There are a lot of factors that determine how to handle these implementations correctly. Are you still using role-based authorization? What identity provider are you using? Are you using SSO? Are you using claims/scopes? Do you know how to set up claims transformations? These are just some of the questions to ask when dealing with authentication and authorization. In this episode, we discuss these questions and more with Albert. Have you had to implement auth in a web application? How did it go? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast.

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Links

• Claims Transformation in .NET 6. OAuth2 is a great protocol to… | by Albert Starreveld | Medium
• Auth0: Secure access for everyone. But not just anyone.
• jwt.ms
• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – Official Legal Text
• Albert Starreveld - Medium
• LinkedIn: Albert Starreveld
• Contact Albert at [email protected]

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• Caleb- Lifespan
• Shawn- Watch Locke & Key | Netflix Official Site

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Chris Sainty returns to the podcast to discuss the release of his book, Blazor in Action, and more Blazor goodness. We begin this episode talking about writing and publishing a technical book including what it took to get the book over the finish line. There are a lot of moving parts to a technical book especially if the book contains code samples. Next we get into specific questions about Blazor like hosted vs standalone, razor files or code behind and more. We even get into a discussion about MediatR and how it can benefit your codebase whether it is a Blazor application or not. What do you like or dislike most about Blazor? Have you read Chris Sainty's book? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast.


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• Chris- GOWOD - Mobility First
• Shawn- Temporary email services like temp-mail.org or https://10minutemail.com/

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Chris Sainty returns to the podcast to discuss the release of his book, Blazor in Action, and more Blazor goodness. We begin this episode talking about writing and publishing a technical book including what it took to get the book over the finish line. There are a lot of moving parts to a technical book especially if the book contains code samples. Next we get into specific questions about Blazor like hosted vs standalone, razor files or code behind and more. We even get into a discussion about MediatR and how it can benefit your codebase whether it is a Blazor application or not. What do you like or dislike most about Blazor? Have you read Chris Sainty's book? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast.


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Links

• - Top End Devs
• Blazor in Action
• Chris Sainty

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• Caleb- Pokémon™ Legends: Arceus for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site 
• Chris- GOWOD - Mobility First
• Shawn- Temporary email services like temp-mail.org or https://10minutemail.com/

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