If you are using Sonar Cloud for your automated CI quality gate within Azure DevOps, you might find that creating a new Sonar Project from within Sonar doesn’t work as Sonar does not have the permission to read/write your code in order to find the Azure DevOps project, and pushes Read more…
In my previous post I walked through the set up of a dotnet core project in Sonar Cloud, showing how, with a few settings in your csproj file and a couple of dotnet tools, you can create a code coverage report and upload your project and report to a Sonar Read more…
I’ve mentioned in a previous post how recent versions of C#8, along with some reputable code analysers have helped developers improve the quality of their code. One of those analysers is from Sonar, a well known code quality company offering IDE, Cloud and on-premise integration with your code. I have Read more…
Following on from my previous post on using Nullable reference types to aid validation with Web Apis where I mentioned the idea of forming model requirements early on in your design to allow developers to set which properties can be a nullable reference type, I was reminded of the importance Read more…
In my previous post, we set up a Splunk Docker container and configured it to collect http posted events to its HEC and pushed an example log event through postman. However, in order for this to work, we had to disabled the SSL Verification checks in Postman. Switching off such Read more…
Ensuring you have logging enabled for your application has always been a high priority but even more so now, in the age of DevOps, that a comprehensive solution is in place to support any pro-active approach to managing issues in Production. Splunk is a popular logging option, historically perhaps, for Read more…
In my previous post, I sert up a very simple Docker supported web api project using a Dockerfile to determine the set up and launch. To consider the maintainability of production-deployable scenario, we can look towards Docker Compose to organise our setup. This can be initiated in VS2019 by right-clicking Read more…
A google search for ‘Docker’ will inevitably throw up a lot of results and the fact that it’s cross platform, whilst a positive, can mean that a lot of ‘Getting started’ guides make an assumption that the reader is coming from a Linux background. For .net developers such as myself, Read more…
There are a multitude of source control repositories out there but few can compete with Git and within this area, GitHub is a great choice if you want to publish your code to the cloud. Even if it’s just POC work, having it in GitHub gives you an easy-to-reach library Read more…
If you’ve made use of Microsoft’s Azure DevOps provisioning (formerly VSTS), you will have had the chance to introduce yourself to Git if you hadn’t already. It’s a great offering and comes with bucket loads of functionality that can be perfect for individuals as well as larger teams, but it’s Read more…