Getting started with testing in .NET Core
.NET Core has been in production (RTM) since June 2016, when it was officially released at the Red Had Summit by Scott Hanselman. What…
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Christos Matskas
TypeScript 2.0 RC with Visual Studio Code
You know how much I love new, shiny things? For some odd reason, I'm compelled to try the latest and 'greatest&…
Run SSH with PowerShell
I'm currently working on a somewhat restricted environment where we have to run SSH commands on a Windows Server. The commands are…
Automate login for Azure Powershell scripts with Service Principals
Automation is great. It's the bedrock of any successful IT department and the default solution for any task that has to be…
Entity Framework Core 1.0 - Table Valued Functions and LINQ Composition
Entity framework Core (EFCore) has been out for a few weeks now after hitting RTM on June 27th 2016. That was also the same…
Copying blob data between storage accounts on Azure. Did you say scale? (part 1)
A couple of weeks ago I [published a post](GHOST_URL/copy-azure-blob-data-between-storage-accounts-using-functions/" target="_blank) for copying data between storage accounts using Azure…
ASP.NET Core from the command line
ASP.NET Core (formerly known as ASP.NET 5 or vNext) runs on top of the new [DotNet Core](https://www.microsoft.com/net/…
Configure a RunOnce task on Windows
Today was one of these days. Faced with a new problem I've never come across before. I was trying to configure a…
Application logging to Azure using SeriLog
I'm in the process of creating a cloud-based application that needs to scale well and I'm thinking about error management…
Copy Azure blob data between storage accounts using Functions
Microsoft's Azure Functions are pretty amazing for automating workloads using the power of the Cloud. Unlike their predecessor, WebJobs, Functions are an…
Working with Azure ARM Templates in Visual Studio Code
These days I spend a lot of time working with Azure. I also make a conscious effort to use all the tools available when…
Options for Migrating Azure VMs from ASM (v1) to ARM (v2)
Today, the Azure portal allows you to create 2 types of VMs. These types refer mainly to the platform atop which your VMs run.…