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…
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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 →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…
Read More →In my previous post about Deploying ASP.NET 4.5 to Docker on Windows I forgot to mention that you might run into an issue when running webdeploy. Julian Perrott, commented on my post and asked if this is an issue. I think it is an issue and that the install does not complete correctly. But there…
Read More →In preparation for Tech Days 2016, I was working with my colleagues on the Techdays app and for this we also have a backend system. This system is running for some time now and we want to have better insights into the usage of the website and the mobile app. One of the latest additions…
Read More →I was just doing my work on windows 10 and for no apparent reason the windows 10 start menu would not respond anymore to either my Windows hotkey on the keyboard or by clicking on the start menu icon in the left bottom corner. This meant no response to the windows key and me typing…
Read More →I have been playing around with this idea for quite some time and I already build this for a customer in the past, but after questions I got from people using CodedUI who tried to come up with a simplified syntax I thought it would be time to publish what I have at the moment….
Read More →This week I got a request on twitter how to work with CodedUI for windows forms and if I had any example. A couple of weeks ago, during a deep dive session we did in Sweden, I got more or less the same question on how can I access my controls when using windows forms,…
Read More →Recently I joined a project where they are working on a new application that is based on the new ASP.NET cross platform tooling. While this is still in beta at the moment I write this, we strongly believe in the future of ASP.NET and the ability to run it on multiple platforms. Of course we…
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