So today I wanna talk about this piece of “coding horror” I found in an application. onArticleFormSubmit() { this.processValidation = true; if (this.articleForm.invalid) { return; //Validation failed, exit from method. }…

If you followed my recent posts you’ll notice that I played around with appsettings and tried to find the most elegant way to remove sensitive secrets (like passwords, API keys,…) out of source control. …

It is not a good idea to check in your secret API keys, passwords, tokens,… in your source control. And because I kept on struggling with managing secrets and passwords for my solution… Here is a small tutorial on how to load settings from keyvault. Keyvault is an awesome tool to manage passwords , api keys and other secrets for your solution. It also helps you to keep things organized and store all secrets in one place!

Has it ever happened to you that Visual Studio just keeps showing you “build” errors that… aren’t actually there? It keeps showing you errors from a ‘previous’ version. This often happens to me when switching from branches. The errors keep showing up even after cleaning and rebuilding your solution. It…

Here is another one for future me: How to find out what process is using (or stealing!) the port you need. — Say you are working on a web application in Visual Studio. And the web application is configured to use a certain port. The port is hard coded. But when you try to debug or start the web application you get an error message: “unable to connect to web server ‘IIS…

How to enable verbose logging by default in Azure Devops YAML pipelines. — System diagnostics is a useful tool to help you troubleshoot pipeline failures. Enabling the option will give you additional verbose logging during the run of your pipeline. Manually enabling verbose logging When you run your pipeline there is a checkbox that allows you to run your pipeline with system diagnostics enabled. Checking the option…

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…