
For those that attended my session at techorama, you can find the slide deck and the demos I used here Slides: https://xpir.it/testautomation Demos: https://xpir.it/musicstore Enjoy!
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For those that attended my session at techorama, you can find the slide deck and the demos I used here Slides: https://xpir.it/testautomation Demos: https://xpir.it/musicstore Enjoy!
Read More →TLDR; Make sure all your async methods return a type of Task<something> and not just Task or Void! this will cause sporadic crashes of your application. Only use asyn void or async Task on event handlers. Longer version: Recently I worked on an app build in Xamarin and found myself in a nasty situation. My…
Read More →One of the challenges with ASP.NET in combination with containers, is the fact that you configure all your settings in the web.config. when using containers, we want to provide different settings for different environments we run our containers. E.g. you have a dev, test, acceptance and production environment, for which you want other connection strings…
Read More →In this new course, I teach you how to use Docker to deliver solutions to the Windows platform. First, you’ll explore the options and capabilities Docker offers on the Windows platform. Next, you’ll delve into how Visual Studio 2017 simplifies the use of Docker in the development cycle. Finally, you’ll learn how to implement a…
Read More →Last week I presented a session at Techorama in Belgium with the title “Architecting systems for continuous delivery”. It was a fully packed room and was great to do. I got multiple requests to share the slides, so here goes Enjoy ! Slides are here
Read More →Last week I visited Docker con 2017 where Docker announced a whole lot of new features, under which a new feature in the docker build command, called multi staged builds. These multi staged builds are extremely convenient to create images that are of minimum size. I am mostly using Docker on Windows, but this feature…
Read More →When you create a new docker image that is part of a container composition that you want to run on one and the same host, you can run into the issue that the independent containers are not able to reach each other via DNS resolving. So lets assume you have the following compose file where…
Read More →The past few days I worked quite a lot with docker-compose on my windows machine and after something strange happened to my machine that crashed it, I was not able to start any containers anymore that had connectivity over the network with each other. Every time I used the command-line docker-compose up, I would get…
Read More →Recently Microsoft added the capability to CodedUI to test on the Edge browser. For this they extended the cross browser playback capability. This uses Selenium under the hood. So the steps to make this work are as follows: Install the plugin “Selenium components for Coded UI Cross Browser Testing” from the Visual Studio Gallery…
Read More →If you attended one of my sessions, I hope you enjoyed them. I had a great time. For your reference you can find the PDF’s here and the accompanying demo code. Continuous delivery on azure: A/B testing, Canary releasing and Dark launching If you are more interested in Continuous delivery, you also might like my…
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