Opening AI copilots and IDE extensions are evolving fast, and Microsoft’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) is emerging as the glue that makes custom tools discoverable and usable by editors like VS Code and Visual Studio Insiders. For this post, I’ll be using .NET Core 10 along with Visual
If you’ve been coding in C# for a while, you’ve probably run into that dreaded moment during a pull request: “Hey, can you add unit tests?†“Why are there magic strings?†“You missed a null check here…†Wouldn’t it be nice
I write a bunch of Enterprise Libraries (fancy name for common code), and I have markdown guides on how to install and use it (via NuGet packages). But somehow, I always end up opening Visual Studio or VS Code and do a real time demo on how things work. But
Hello!!! This will be a short post Currently I am working on automating the creation of PlantUML diagrams and embed them into Word documents and Excel Spreadsheets (Yes that is a thing) But instead of copying the image from the PlantUML server, I will be generating the diagram dynamically and
Welcome back, today we will talk about one of my favorite technologies. OData!! You don't know how many times this standard has save me time and discussions as it is a standard. What is OData? "The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a data access protocol built on
Memory cache is a fast and easy way to retrieve data, objects, lists, etc.; that are accessed constantly. Not everything needs to be in-memory, you can use Redis as well to accomplish the same results. Bear in mind that memory may be "infinite" in the cloud, but costs
I usually do smoke testing on my APIs when I deploy them. When using Azure and regular Web Apps or Functions, there is something called slots. Slots are useful when you do a deployment slot, perform basic smoke testing and if it is successful, you just switch the slot to
This is going to be a short but important post. QR Codes are used everywhere but oddly enough explaining how are generated is not well known. QR Codes are made up of modules; a module stores data in rows and columns. Usually, QR codes are version 2 with 25 rows
