Tag: Development

C# 6.0 - Expression Bodied Members It seems like a long time since Visual Studio 2015 was launched and brought us the new language features of C# 6.0 - it was a whole year ago if you go by the...
Octopus Deploy: Where we are today A lot of our web apps are hosted across multiple nodes and each environment sits behind a multi-node load balancer that handles the distribution of incoming requests. For a...
Octopus Deploy - .NET deployment mastered If there's one standout tool I've discovered this year it has to be Octopus Deploy. I can't stress enough the hours this one product now saves us in our development cycle....
C# 6.0 - Null-conditional Operators Last month I introduced you to the new string interpolation features of C# 6.0, so in keeping with that theme I wanted to show you another of my favourite new features of C#...
C# 6.0 - String interpolation Hopefully you've had the time to play around with Visual Studio 2015 by now, and have got your hands dirty with the new language features in C# 6.0. While there are a few, a...
Razor and partial expression matching ASP.NET Razor is an amazing server-side markup language that allows developers to use their existing C#/VB language skills. If you're used ASP.NET Web Pages or MVC you've...
LINQPad 5 is here - get it now Just a couple of days ago, Joseph Albahari made many developers happier and more productive with the release of LINQPad 5. Specifically targeting .NET Frameworth 4.6 LINQPad 5...
LINQPad - the ultimate code scratchpad I've been a fan of LINQPad for a few years now. If you are a .NET Developer and haven't heard about LINQPad, you have seriously been missing out. LINQPad is advertised as...
Displaying help text for a model in MVC We've recently been working on a new MVC app consisting of a number of different models, each with their own set of CRUD pages. As things have grown in complexity thanks to...
CodeLens - the best new(ish) feature in Visual Studio 2015? Ok so for anyone who has used Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate this isn't new at all, but with Visual Studio 2015 Microsoft has lowered the entry point and have made CodeLens...