Here is a cool trick for all Azure Devops Engineers out there: Did you know that you can have variables based on a prompt shown to the user? For this scenario we want to ask the user if we should run the Sonarqube analysis during the pipeline. Our pipeline should…

I’ve been playing with Azure Devops the last couple of months. One of the things that annoyed me was that each time a test failed there was no easy way to see what was going on. Let me show you what I mean Finding the failing test: the old fashion way Say we have a build with a…

If you are a C# .NET developer, you’ve probably come across this warning message: “This async method lacks ‘await’ operators and will run synchronously”. If you are defining an async method without the await keyword Visual Studio will give you the following warning message: warning CS1998: This async method lacks…

Let’s say you or your infrastructure team created a custom Azure Bicep module. This is pretty cool. But say you want to see what this module does? How can we see what’s defined inside this module? Let’s take a look What is a bicep module? For those of you that don’t know: a module allows…

I secretly hoped that double clicking on my bicep file would execute it. But unfortunately… It doesn’t. So here is how to run, execute or deploy a bicep file on your Azure subscription. Requirements An Azure Subscription A Bicep file … Select the subscription you want to use Azure resources are linked to a subscription. So we’ll first…

Here is another one to future me: How to install Azure Bicep CLI on your system. Make sure you have Azure CLI installed Azure Bicep is part of the Azure CLI. So you’ll need to have Azure CLI installed on your system. You can verify your installition by opening a command prompt and typing: az version If…

Welcome! I’ve been fiddling with Rebus for the last couple of weeks and today I’ll explain how you can use the Rebus events to handle certain events when your messages are sent or before they are handled. I’m going to talk about two event handlers: BeforeMessageHandled and BeforeMessageSent. …

Nightly builds are pretty cool if you want to do certain tasks over night for example: SonarCloud code quality checks, integration testing or other cool checks. Let’s see how easy it is to set them up using Azure Devops and YAML pipelines! Setting up the cron job In YAML builds you usually have the trigger…

The last couple of weeks I’ve been playing around with messaging and Sagas. This entire system runs on an Azure Web Job. Yesterday we noticed that the system was trying to handle messages twice. In the logs of my web job I noticed the following: WebJob singleton setting is False …