Deploying to NuGet from GitHub Actions using Cake and MinVer
I recently started moving some builds from TeamCity, Travis, and AppVeyor to GitHub actions, and while doing that, I thought I would also move to a more straightforward deployment process.
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How to create .NET Core release artifacts with GitHub Actions
In this blog post, we'll create a GitHub Action that triggers each time a release is published, builds a binary on three different build agents (Windows, macOS, and Ubuntu), and attaches the compressed artifacts to the release.
How to write a stateful Roslyn analyzer
I wrote a stateful Roslyn analyzer a couple of days ago to analyze the codebase at work for irregularities, and I thought I would share my findings on how I did it.
How to find a NuGet package path from MSBuild
Lately I've been porting some projects at a client from .NET Framework to .NET Core, and as part of that I had to convert csproj files from the old project format to the new one. That means getting rid of package references in packages.config and replacing them with PackageReference elements in the project files.
Binding to a RichTextBox in WPF
I've been doing some WPF development the last couple of weeks, and one thing that bugged me was that there is no way (as far as I know) to bind content to a RichTextBox. This makes it kind of difficult to follow the MVVM pattern since the view model needs intimate knowledge of the view.
Conditionals in XAML
Ever wanted to display things conditionally in XAML based on a pre-processor directive like `DEBUG`?
Using embedded resources in xUnit tests
I was reading Andrew Lock's excellent blog post about Creating parameterised tests in xUnit when I remembered something I wrote a while back that has proven to be quite useful.
Never mutate state in a Debug.Assert call
Yesterday I encountered a bug in a library I'm working on that only seemed to occur when compiled in release mode.
Cake and AppVeyor integration
In this blog post I will show you how to use Cake with your AppVeyor CI builds.
Script aliases
Cake supports something called script aliases. Script aliases are convenience methods that are easily accessible directly from a Cake script. Every API method in Cake is implemented like this.
It's not a party without Cake
I have during my nine years as a (professional) programmer used several different build automation systems such as Rake, psake, CMake, TFS Build and FAKE, but none of these have allowed me to write my build scripts using C# - the language I use the most.
The singleton logger
It is widely accepted that you access logging frameworks via a static singleton instance, and most logging frameworks are designed to work like this. But why? Many people often refer to it as being a cross-cross cutting concern; and that it's therefore not important to do things by the book. Not only does most logging frameworks use the static singleton as a façade, but they also store process-wide state.
Introducing Lunt
Last summer, a friend and I started to write a little Paradroid clone. Since my only real experience as a game programmer was with XNA and MonoGame, I had grown fond of the XNA Content Pipeline, and naturally wanted something similar for this project.
BinaryWriter and C++
A while back I had to read string data written by .NET's BinaryWriter in C++. I was initially a little bit confused about how the data was written but after using Reflector it turned out that the write method prefixes the string with a 7-bit encoded integer.
Culture agnostic string comparisons
Something I've seen a lot at different clients is naive string comparison. The most common case is to do something involving String.ToLower() on both strings that are being compared and then an equality comparison of the result.
How to dynamically add attributes to a class with Castle.Core
Yesterday I was working on some unit tests that ensured that some user derived classes passed to a method were decorated with a specific attribute.