.NET - Ken Muse

Good Code Doesn't Care Where It Lives

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400

Trying create code that is truly flexible? Learn how to write software and services that run everywhere: in VMs, containers, and serverless platforms.

Distributing .NET Dependencies and Settings With Packages

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Learn how to standardize development practices by distributing dependencies, settings, and analyzers using NuGet packages.

How to Test a .NET Package

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Packages are code, too! Like any code solution, you need to test your work. Learn how to test a custom .NET package that adds ZIP support to the build process.

Distributing Custom .NET Tasks

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500

There's a simple trick to easily share .NET build tasks between developers. Learn to create a NuGet package that automatically ZIPs your builds for deployment.

Creating a Zip Package in .NET

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Compiling code and packaging it as a ZIP file to deploy a .NET application can be simplified to a single command with this native MSBuild feature.

What Developers Should Know About Floating Point Numbers

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Fun fact: adding 0.1 to 0.2 doesn't exactly equal 0.3 in most programming languages. Learn why floating point numbers don't behave the way you think they do.

Forcing .NET Into Debug Mode

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400

How does .NET determine debug or release at runtime? It's more than just specifying a build configuration. And it's more configurable than most people realize.

Understanding .NET Debug vs Release

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Not completely sure about the differences between Debug and Release builds in .NET? Explore the implementation and the implications.

An Introduction to SourceLink

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Instead of using symbol servers to index our PDBs, we can use an open, standardized approach to map our symbols to source code and improve the debug experience.

Understanding Symbol Servers

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0400

It's not really an exploration of PDBs and debugging without talking about symbol servers. Today we'll learn about what they do and when you need one.

What Every Developer Should Know About PDBs

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Almost a decade ago, John Robbins opened up the details of PDBs to the developer world. It's time to re-examine the format and how it works in modern .NET.

Ruby for the .NET Developer

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0400

The last few weeks, I’ve been having to work in Ruby 2.x. It’s not a language that I’ve spent a great deal of time with, so it’s been fun to dive into the nuances of the platform. There’s a lot of things to like about it, including some simple syntaxes for common tasks in other languages. It can make it a powerful tool for some complex jobs. As someone that programs in multiple different languages, I often see many aspects that are similar, as well as certain aspects that make the language more powerful by requiring less code.

Notarizing .NET Console Apps for macOS

Thu, 02 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Learn how to create and notarize macOS universal binaries for .NET console applications.

Custom .NET Item Templates

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Explore creating a reusable template that uses dotnet new to package and distribute a file.

Scaling Legacy .NET Web Forms on Azure

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Explore the secrets to making a legacy .NET application perform and scale appropriately on Azure.