I’m Running for the Board of the Directors of the DotNet Foundation - 2022 Edition
I am a Microsoft Developer Service MVP, running for a Board of Directors position on the .NET Foundation. I have been an MVP since 2008. I have spoken at mul...
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Community
Congressional App Challenge
I was proud to participate in the Congressional App Challenge last year even though it was just to help promote it in Arizona. The Congressional App Challeng...
Upcoming Events in Phoenix For April 2019
We have two great technology events taking place in the Phoenix metro area over the next two weeks, Global Azure Boot Camp and SQL Saturday.
Why I Organize Desert Code Camp
While I was mingling at the Desert Code Camp after party, I was talking to a long time attendee, Liz. Liz makes the drive up from Tucson every year to attend...
The Power of Community
This blog post has been a long time coming. As a matter of fact, it has been on my Todo list for about two years. I know I am behind 
. While parts of ...
Speakers are not Idols
I’ve noticed that at a lot of conferences I attend conference attendees are afraid to approach the conference speakers. It would appear that some attendees t...
2 Year Retrospective
At around 6:30am PST on 3/19/2013, I hung up the phone from my last INETA North America Board meeting in which I was the President. I actually did not hit me...
Great Events in November 2012
There are three great events coming to Phoenix this month.
Upcoming Events in Arizona
I was going through the AZ Groups calendar this week and noticed that we have a lot of events going on in Arizona in the next two related to Microsoft .NET T...
Windows Phone Unleashed Events
There are two events Windows Phone Unleashed events coming to the Phoenix metropolitan area in May. Please register soon before the events sell out. Registra...
40+
So this blog post has been pending for over 4 months. I originally had the idea on June 1st, the day after I turned 40. It was to be titled 40 + 1. The inten...
LightSwitch Meeting for SEVDNUG
We are having a special user group meeting this month on LightSwitch on August 25th where Beth Massi, Senior Program Manager for BizApps, will present up to ...
SQL Pass Events Site Relaunched
Are you going to PASS Summit 2011 in October? If so, you might want to check out the updated site I launched called PASS Summit Events. PASS Summit Events wi...
My TechEd Video on Community
Back in May at TechEd North America Developer Express interviewed me about INETA, Community and Desert Code Camp. Check out the video.
INETA and TechEd
Since being elected the President of INETA North America in April, I have heard some good and bad things about INETA from several people. I want to make INE...
Startup Weekend Chandler
I wanted to let you know about an upcoming event called Startup Weekend Chandler. Startup Weekend is a non-profit, community-building event that brings toget...
Community Speaking and Cost
At the beginning of 2011, I set a goal for myself to speak at least twice at a community event that was outside of my area, the Phoenix metro area. There ar...
TechEd Events Site Launched
Are you going to Tech·Ed North America 2011 in May? If so, you might want to check out the updated site I launched called Tech·Ed Events. Tech·Ed Events will...
Party Bus from LA to Chandler for Desert Code Camp
Back in January at SoCal Code Camp Fullerton, Daniel Egan, Woody Pewitt and I were chatting about the different camps and how can we collaborate better. That...
Announcing Desert Code Camp 2011.1
I am pleased to announce the date for Desert Code Camp 2011.1, aka April 2011 code camp. It will take place on Saturday, April, 2nd, 2010.
MVP Summit Events Site Relaunched
Are you going to Microsoft 2011 Global MVP Summit in February? If so, you might want to check out the updated site I launched called MVP Summit Events. MVP S...
Thinking of starting a User Group
A while ago I was asked by a friend of mine in SoCal (Southern California) about how to start a user group. After answering his email I decided it would be n...
Desert Code Camp 2010.2 Sessions so far
Here is the list of sessions that have been submitted and approved as of September 17th, 2010. It even includes 3 sessions for our Gangplank Jr. track for ki...
Announcing Desert Code Camp 2010.2
I am pleased to announce the date for Desert Code Camp 2010.2, aka Nov2010 code camp. It will take place Saturday, November, 13th, 2010. There are a few cha...
Announcing PDCEvents.info
Back a while ago, I created a site to track events at the Microsoft MVP Global Summit. I did this because there are so many after parties or events that happ...
Announcing PDCEvents.info
One thing that I have noticed of the past few years when it comes to conference or “Summits” is that there are a lot of after parties, tweets, etc. that happ...
Code Camp redone
So my family and I have been going camping a lot for the past two years and this got me thinking… Why not have a Code Camp with actual camping? We can still...
Announcing Desert Code Camp 2010.1
It’s time for the 7th iteration of Desert Code Camp (my second one as director). Desert Code Camp will be held on May 15th at DeVry again.
SEVDNUG: February Social Mixer
Join us for our 2nd social mixer of the year at Brunswick Zone in Gilbert for two hours of bowling and socializing taking place on Monday 2/22 at 6:00 PM.
Two Free Developer Events in Phoenix
MSDN Events: Take Your Applications Sky High with Cloud Computing and the Windows Azure Platform
Mix 10 Events Site Launched
Are you going to Mix10 in March? If so, you might want to check out the new site I launched call Mix 10 Events. Mix 10 Events will be you one stop shop for ...
MVP Summit Events Launched
One thing that I have noticed of the past few years when it comes to conference or “Summits” is that there are a lot of after parties, tweets, etc. that happ...
Call for speakers for 2010
The Southeast Valley .NET User Group is looking for some speakers for 2010. The meetings are held monthly typically on the fourth Thursday of the month, alth...
Events for 2010
I recently sat down with some other community evangelists in the Chandler / Phoenix area to talk about some of the events that I plan to put on in the coming...
A November to Remember
And no it is not because the Yankees won the World Series (although congrats to them) it is because it has been an awesome month for me personally and profes...
Desert Code Camp – November 2009 Lessons Learned
My first Code Camp is done and I wanted to jot down some of the lessons I learned.
Gangplank Jr Track at Code Camp Jr.
Got a kid interested in Technology? Bring them to the Gankplank Jr track at Code Camp Jr. taking place at Desert Code Camp.
Another Phoenix area meet up
Phoenix Geek Tag was a minor success so I decided to put together another Geek outing in October. Most likely October 20th starting around 6pm. I have narrow...
Desert Code Camp is back
The next Desert Code Camp is scheduled for Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at DeVry University. Great sessions, networking, food, and WIFI (yes WIFI) will be p...
LaidOffCampPhx was a success!
Hats off to Rachel Reese for successfully organizing the first Laid Off Camp Phoenix. The event went smooth as could be. I think the highlight of the event ...
Southeast Valley .NET User Group site relaunched
Come check out the new site https://www.sevdnug.org
Azure
Extended Validation (EV) Code Signing Certificates with Azure Key Vault and digicert
In a previous post, I showed you how to Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Vault. In this post, I will show you how to create an Extended Validati...
Azure Key Vault - Update a Secret and its Properties Programmatically
When you use the Azure Key Vault SDK, you can create, read, update, and delete secrets. In this post, you will learn how to update a secret and its properti...
Software Architecture with C# 9 and .NET 5 - Book Review
The book’s title should be Software Architecture with Azure, C# 9, and .NET since the book focuses on the Microsoft stack and development tools.
Creating a Search Suggestion widget using Azure Maps Search Service and KendoUI Autocomplete.
When using Google or Bing Maps to lookup an address or point of interest, both display address suggestions in a user-friendly way. In the example below, I ty...
Adding .NET 5 Support to Azure App Service
Yesterday I updated the Contacts to .NET 5. Now the process was pretty easy, you can watch the video here, however once published to Azure App Service I got...
NLog, Dependency Injection, and Azure Functions, Oh My!
Update November 5th, 2020 Thanks to Rolf Kristensen, one of the NLog maintainers, and some debugging, I came up with another solution!
Working with Microsoft Identity - React Native Client
In this post, I’m going to walk through how you authenticate and use an API that is secured with Azure Active Directory using React Native and the Microsoft ...
Dependency Injection with Azure Functions
I got bit by the dependency injection bug a few months ago and want to use it when I can, and it makes sense. Within a month or so of writing this post, Azur...
Working with Microsoft Identity - Registering an Application
Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I d...
Working with Microsoft Identity - Configure Local Development
Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I d...
Working with Microsoft Identity - Assigning a Role
Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I d...
Securing Azure Containers and Blobs with Managed Identities
I’ve been streaming ‘Coding with JoeG’ on Twitch for a few months now. The general theme of the stream is teaching software development with C#. We’ve been b...
Debugging Azure Function Event Grid Triggers Locally with JetBrains Rider
If you’ve done much with Azure Functions and the Event Grid triggers, you’ve probably come across the post ‘Azure Function Event Grid Trigger Local Debugging...
Securing Azure Function Settings with Azure Key Vault
In this post, we’ll walk through how you can use Azure Key Vault to secure sensitive settings in Azure Functions. If you don’t have a Key Vault setup, I cove...
Connecting to a Protected API with Microsoft Identity Platform
In a previous post, I demonstrated how you can protect an ASP.NET Core Web API using the Microsoft Identity Platform. In this post, we are going to look at w...
Protecting an ASP.NET Core Web API with Microsoft Identity Platform
Microsoft Identity Web is a library which contains a set of reusable classes used in conjunction with ASP.NET Core for integrating with the Microsoft identit...
Hello Microsoft Identity Platform
Hello, Microsoft identity platform!
Build, Sign, and Deploy NuGet Packages with Azure Pipeline
Let’s take a look how you can build an Azure pipeline that will build your NuGet package, sign it, then deploy it to Azure Artifacts
Setup an Azure Application with Permissions to Enable Certificate Signing
In a previous post, I walked through how to upload a code signing certificate to Azure Key Vault. This post will walk you through setting up the Azure “appl...
Setup Azure Artifacts to Host Your NuGet Packages
Let’s take a look how you can build an Azure pipeline that will build your NuGet package, sign it, then deploy it to Azure Artifacts
Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Vault
Let’s take a look at how you can set up and configure Azure Key Vault to store Code Signing Certificates
Im Speaking on a Boat
Well, it’s more than a boat is a cruise ship, the Norwegian Cruise Lines Escape. We will be departing from Miami with port stops in Falmouth (Jamaica); Georg...
Using SendGrid and emails are not being delivered to Hotmail/Outlook/Live/MSN.com recipients?
Me too, or at least I was… While the problem I was having might not be related to SendGrid exclusively, I am going to talk about the solution.
Adding Visual Studio Online to an Windows Azure MSDN Benefit Subscription
In my previous post where I talk about the Visual Studio Online with Microsoft Azure MSDN benefits, I talk about why you can not add Visual Studio Online to...
Visual Studio Online with Windows Azure MSDN benefit
I don’t know about you but when I watched the Visual Studio launch earlier this week I was really excited about some of the cool new features added. The firs...
Windows Azure Experience–Part 4: Customizing the Web Site
This Part 4 of a series of posts about my “upgrade” to Windows Azure. Next up in the series is customizing the Windows Azure Web Site.
Windows Azure Experience–Part 3: Creating the Web Site
This Part 3 of a series of posts about my “upgrade” to Windows Azure. Next up in the series is creating the Windows Azure Web Site.
Windows Azure Experience–Part 2: Management Portal
This Part 2 of a series of posts about my “upgrade” to Windows Azure. Next up in this series is the Windows Azure Management Portal. It can be accessed dire...
Windows Azure Experience–Part 1: Creating the Account
This Part 1 of a series of posts about my “upgrade” to Windows Azure.
The Windows Azure Experience
A few weeks ago, I embarked on a task to move one of my sites from a traditional hosting provider to Windows Azure Web Sites. I did this for a few reasons an...
.NET
Azure Key Vault - Update a Secret and its Properties Programmatically
When you use the Azure Key Vault SDK, you can create, read, update, and delete secrets. In this post, you will learn how to update a secret and its properti...
Working with the LinkedIn API with C#
The last day few days, I have been experimenting with the LinkedIn API to send my blog posts, YouTube videos, and community updates automatically to my Linke...
Encryption Is Now Required for SQL Server Connection Strings
While I was presenting my workshop Building and Deploying a New Cloud App from Scratch at DEVIntersections yesterday the connection to the database kept fai...
I’m Running for the Board of the Directors of the DotNet Foundation - 2022 Edition
I am a Microsoft Developer Service MVP, running for a Board of Directors position on the .NET Foundation. I have been an MVP since 2008. I have spoken at mul...
Book Review - Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6
You may have wanted to dabble in Parallel Programing (async/await), the Task Parallel Library (TPL), or other ways to make your application more responsive ...
Clean up some .NET Clutter
As some of you know, I do a lot of public speaking and blogging,
although the blogging seems to have taken a vacation lately .
One of the side effect...
What’s New with Visual Studio 2022
Note: This post was originally posted on the Telerik blog.
What Was Added To C# 10
Note: This post was originally posted on the Telerik blog
What I Like About C# 9
Note: This post was originally posted on the Telerik blog.
Software Architecture with C# 9 and .NET 5 - Book Review
The book’s title should be Software Architecture with Azure, C# 9, and .NET since the book focuses on the Microsoft stack and development tools.
Migrate to ASP.NET Core MVC from ASP.NET Framework MVC
.NET has been around for a while and has had many versions. We started the .NET Framework, moved into .NET Core, and now just .NET, kind of sort of . ...
DebuggerDisplay Attribute
Have you ever tried to debug an application and wish the Visual Studio debugger did not display {Namespace.ObjectName} when you wanted to see some of the det...
SEVDNUG: February Social Mixer
Join us for our 2nd social mixer of the year at Brunswick Zone in Gilbert for two hours of bowling and socializing taking place on Monday 2/22 at 6:00 PM.
Two Free Developer Events in Phoenix
MSDN Events: Take Your Applications Sky High with Cloud Computing and the Windows Azure Platform
Call for speakers for 2010
The Southeast Valley .NET User Group is looking for some speakers for 2010. The meetings are held monthly typically on the fourth Thursday of the month, alth...
Events for 2010
I recently sat down with some other community evangelists in the Chandler / Phoenix area to talk about some of the events that I plan to put on in the coming...
New Sitefinity tool created
As some of you know, I have the Southeast Valley .NET User Group web site running on Telerik’s Sitefinity product. The product itself is awesome but needs a...
Creating a new Sitefinity generic content module
So, I heard that the Sitefinity application had this generic content module that was pretty easy to use to create your own module with. Why do you need to cr...
How to create a Sitefinity custom module
Download this document: How to create a Sitefinity custom module
Southeast Valley .NET User Group site relaunched
Come check out the new site https://www.sevdnug.org
Telerik.Events
This module is responsible for adding, removing, deleting events from the Sitefinity system. This guide is meant to supplement the documentation that is avai...
How do I format my GridView bound column differently?
Replace the ColumnName value with the name of your column. Replace DataFormatString property with the format string of your choosing. A good reference for ....
Arizona
Upcoming Events in Phoenix For April 2019
We have two great technology events taking place in the Phoenix metro area over the next two weeks, Global Azure Boot Camp and SQL Saturday.
Why I Organize Desert Code Camp
While I was mingling at the Desert Code Camp after party, I was talking to a long time attendee, Liz. Liz makes the drive up from Tucson every year to attend...
Great Events in November 2012
There are three great events coming to Phoenix this month.
Upcoming Events in Arizona
I was going through the AZ Groups calendar this week and noticed that we have a lot of events going on in Arizona in the next two related to Microsoft .NET T...
Windows Phone Unleashed Events
There are two events Windows Phone Unleashed events coming to the Phoenix metropolitan area in May. Please register soon before the events sell out. Registra...
LightSwitch Meeting for SEVDNUG
We are having a special user group meeting this month on LightSwitch on August 25th where Beth Massi, Senior Program Manager for BizApps, will present up to ...
Startup Weekend Chandler
I wanted to let you know about an upcoming event called Startup Weekend Chandler. Startup Weekend is a non-profit, community-building event that brings toget...
Party Bus from LA to Chandler for Desert Code Camp
Back in January at SoCal Code Camp Fullerton, Daniel Egan, Woody Pewitt and I were chatting about the different camps and how can we collaborate better. That...
Announcing Desert Code Camp 2011.1
I am pleased to announce the date for Desert Code Camp 2011.1, aka April 2011 code camp. It will take place on Saturday, April, 2nd, 2010.
Desert Code Camp 2010.2 Sessions so far
Here is the list of sessions that have been submitted and approved as of September 17th, 2010. It even includes 3 sessions for our Gangplank Jr. track for ki...
Announcing Desert Code Camp 2010.2
I am pleased to announce the date for Desert Code Camp 2010.2, aka Nov2010 code camp. It will take place Saturday, November, 13th, 2010. There are a few cha...
Code Camp redone
So my family and I have been going camping a lot for the past two years and this got me thinking… Why not have a Code Camp with actual camping? We can still...
I Love Chandler…
No not Chandler Bing from Friends, although maybe Monica … it’s living in Chandler, Arizona.
Announcing Desert Code Camp 2010.1
It’s time for the 7th iteration of Desert Code Camp (my second one as director). Desert Code Camp will be held on May 15th at DeVry again.
SEVDNUG: February Social Mixer
Join us for our 2nd social mixer of the year at Brunswick Zone in Gilbert for two hours of bowling and socializing taking place on Monday 2/22 at 6:00 PM.
Two Free Developer Events in Phoenix
MSDN Events: Take Your Applications Sky High with Cloud Computing and the Windows Azure Platform
Desert Code Camp – November 2009 Lessons Learned
My first Code Camp is done and I wanted to jot down some of the lessons I learned.
Gangplank Jr Track at Code Camp Jr.
Got a kid interested in Technology? Bring them to the Gankplank Jr track at Code Camp Jr. taking place at Desert Code Camp.
Another Phoenix area meet up
Phoenix Geek Tag was a minor success so I decided to put together another Geek outing in October. Most likely October 20th starting around 6pm. I have narrow...
Desert Code Camp is back
The next Desert Code Camp is scheduled for Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at DeVry University. Great sessions, networking, food, and WIFI (yes WIFI) will be p...
LaidOffCampPhx was a success!
Hats off to Rachel Reese for successfully organizing the first Laid Off Camp Phoenix. The event went smooth as could be. I think the highlight of the event ...
Southeast Valley .NET User Group site relaunched
Come check out the new site https://www.sevdnug.org
Web
Book Review — Software Architecture for Web Developers
This book is broken up into three parts. In the first part, the author defines what software architecture is and what makes a good architecture. The seco...
Migrate to ASP.NET Core MVC from ASP.NET Framework MVC
.NET has been around for a while and has had many versions. We started the .NET Framework, moved into .NET Core, and now just .NET, kind of sort of . ...
Using Yarn with ASP.NET Core Projects
Since I got bitten by the CI/CD bug, I’ve been looking at ways to clean up some code-bases and make it easier to deploy and store less unneeded files in my r...
Im Speaking on a Boat
Well, it’s more than a boat is a cruise ship, the Norwegian Cruise Lines Escape. We will be departing from Miami with port stops in Falmouth (Jamaica); Georg...
Using SendGrid and emails are not being delivered to Hotmail/Outlook/Live/MSN.com recipients?
Me too, or at least I was… While the problem I was having might not be related to SendGrid exclusively, I am going to talk about the solution.
jQuery Twitter Bootstrap Flickr Carousel
A few months ago I built a jQuery plugin that uses the Twitter Bootstrap Carousel to cycle through images on Flickr. In order to use this plugin you need to ...
Taking the “Leap” to Everleap
For the past 5+ years, I’ve had a few different sites hosted at Discount ASP.NET, this site being one of them. Recently, Discount ASP.NET released a new prod...
Foursquare Autocomplete jQuery Plugin
This post will go over implementing the foursquare Autocomplete jQuery plugin. In the upcoming days (weeks) I will have a few blog posts on using the foursqu...
Add Google Plus One Extension to BlogEngine.NET
A few years ago I built my personal website using BlogEngine.NET, every once in a while I tend to pay attention to the site and “freshen it up”. Back in Dec...
Using an ASP.NET DataRepeater ItemTemplate to create a jQuery Mobile Nested List with List Dividers
The jQuery Mobile framework has a list view widget that displays unordered lists in several different ways. In the process of converting the Microsoft Global...
Converting an ASP.NET “Mobile” site to use jQuery Mobile
Building upon my previous post Introduction to jQuery Mobile, I wanted to share how I converted the Microsoft Global MVP Summit mobile site to use jQuery Mob...
Introduction to jQuery Mobile
Back in November, I sat in on a session by Scott Hanselman on creating a mobile site on ASP.NET using jQuery Mobile. While I was watching this session I cou...
Using Bing Maps Web Services Imagery Service
In my previous post, Using the Bing Maps Web Services for Geocoding Addresses, I talk about geocoding addresses using the Bing Maps Web Services. Now it is t...
Using the Bing Maps Web Services for Geocoding Addresses
For the MVPSummitEvents and Mix10Events site, I wanted to create a map of all of the events listed on the site. In order to do that I needed to Geocode all o...
Add an iCal feed to Sitefinity
{:target=”_blank”}feeds let you share your and/or import your events that are stored in Sitefinity. Here is a library that will let you generate an iCal fee...
Sitefinity: Random Generic Content Control
Download RandomGCContent
How to use the Google AJAX Search API on your website.
The Google AJAX Search API
Events
Upcoming Events in Phoenix For April 2019
We have two great technology events taking place in the Phoenix metro area over the next two weeks, Global Azure Boot Camp and SQL Saturday.
Speakers are not Idols
I’ve noticed that at a lot of conferences I attend conference attendees are afraid to approach the conference speakers. It would appear that some attendees t...
Great Events in November 2012
There are three great events coming to Phoenix this month.
Upcoming Events in Arizona
I was going through the AZ Groups calendar this week and noticed that we have a lot of events going on in Arizona in the next two related to Microsoft .NET T...
Windows Phone Unleashed Events
There are two events Windows Phone Unleashed events coming to the Phoenix metropolitan area in May. Please register soon before the events sell out. Registra...
LightSwitch Meeting for SEVDNUG
We are having a special user group meeting this month on LightSwitch on August 25th where Beth Massi, Senior Program Manager for BizApps, will present up to ...
SQL Pass Events Site Relaunched
Are you going to PASS Summit 2011 in October? If so, you might want to check out the updated site I launched called PASS Summit Events. PASS Summit Events wi...
Startup Weekend Chandler
I wanted to let you know about an upcoming event called Startup Weekend Chandler. Startup Weekend is a non-profit, community-building event that brings toget...
TechEd Events Site Launched
Are you going to Tech·Ed North America 2011 in May? If so, you might want to check out the updated site I launched called Tech·Ed Events. Tech·Ed Events will...
MVP Summit Events Site Relaunched
Are you going to Microsoft 2011 Global MVP Summit in February? If so, you might want to check out the updated site I launched called MVP Summit Events. MVP S...
Announcing Desert Code Camp 2010.2
I am pleased to announce the date for Desert Code Camp 2010.2, aka Nov2010 code camp. It will take place Saturday, November, 13th, 2010. There are a few cha...
Announcing PDCEvents.info
Back a while ago, I created a site to track events at the Microsoft MVP Global Summit. I did this because there are so many after parties or events that happ...
Announcing PDCEvents.info
One thing that I have noticed of the past few years when it comes to conference or “Summits” is that there are a lot of after parties, tweets, etc. that happ...
Mix 10 Events Site Launched
Are you going to Mix10 in March? If so, you might want to check out the new site I launched call Mix 10 Events. Mix 10 Events will be you one stop shop for ...
MVP Summit Events Launched
One thing that I have noticed of the past few years when it comes to conference or “Summits” is that there are a lot of after parties, tweets, etc. that happ...
Telerik.Events
This module is responsible for adding, removing, deleting events from the Sitefinity system. This guide is meant to supplement the documentation that is avai...
Desert Code Camp
Desert Code Camp 2020 is Cancelled
With deep regret, I inform you that we will not be having a Desert Code Camp this year. There are several reasons for this. The primary reason is the facil...
Why I Organize Desert Code Camp
While I was mingling at the Desert Code Camp after party, I was talking to a long time attendee, Liz. Liz makes the drive up from Tucson every year to attend...
Desert Code Camp
I posted on Twitter today that Desert Code Camp is not happening this year. The venue that we use, Chandler-Gilbert Community College is going through some ...
Obsessed With Finding a Better Way
For those that are friends, follow this blog or follow me on Twitter, know that about 9 months ago I started working at Rocket Mortgage as a Software Archite...
My TechEd Video on Community
Back in May at TechEd North America Developer Express interviewed me about INETA, Community and Desert Code Camp. Check out the video.
Party Bus from LA to Chandler for Desert Code Camp
Back in January at SoCal Code Camp Fullerton, Daniel Egan, Woody Pewitt and I were chatting about the different camps and how can we collaborate better. That...
Announcing Desert Code Camp 2011.1
I am pleased to announce the date for Desert Code Camp 2011.1, aka April 2011 code camp. It will take place on Saturday, April, 2nd, 2010.
Desert Code Camp 2010.2 Sessions so far
Here is the list of sessions that have been submitted and approved as of September 17th, 2010. It even includes 3 sessions for our Gangplank Jr. track for ki...
Announcing Desert Code Camp 2010.2
I am pleased to announce the date for Desert Code Camp 2010.2, aka Nov2010 code camp. It will take place Saturday, November, 13th, 2010. There are a few cha...
Code Camp redone
So my family and I have been going camping a lot for the past two years and this got me thinking… Why not have a Code Camp with actual camping? We can still...
Announcing Desert Code Camp 2010.1
It’s time for the 7th iteration of Desert Code Camp (my second one as director). Desert Code Camp will be held on May 15th at DeVry again.
A November to Remember
And no it is not because the Yankees won the World Series (although congrats to them) it is because it has been an awesome month for me personally and profes...
Desert Code Camp – November 2009 Lessons Learned
My first Code Camp is done and I wanted to jot down some of the lessons I learned.
Gangplank Jr Track at Code Camp Jr.
Got a kid interested in Technology? Bring them to the Gankplank Jr track at Code Camp Jr. taking place at Desert Code Camp.
Desert Code Camp is back
The next Desert Code Camp is scheduled for Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at DeVry University. Great sessions, networking, food, and WIFI (yes WIFI) will be p...
Visual Studio
Visual Studio Code File List Sort Order
This morning I was working on a blog post on getting started with Developer Containers. For this, I opened up Visual Studio Code and JetBrains Rider. Once I...
Book Review - Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6
You may have wanted to dabble in Parallel Programing (async/await), the Task Parallel Library (TPL), or other ways to make your application more responsive ...
What’s New with Visual Studio 2022
Note: This post was originally posted on the Telerik blog.
Visual Studio Settings for Presentations
There was a twitter conversation around building an extension to make it easier for presenters/twitchers and others to quickly switch between settings in Vis...
Im Speaking on a Boat
Well, it’s more than a boat is a cruise ship, the Norwegian Cruise Lines Escape. We will be departing from Miami with port stops in Falmouth (Jamaica); Georg...
Book Review: Practical Microsoft Visual Studio 2015
While the title of the book is “Practical Microsoft Visual Studio 2015”, the author, Peter Ritchie, outlines how you can use Microsoft Visual Studio to effec...
Adding Visual Studio Online to an Windows Azure MSDN Benefit Subscription
In my previous post where I talk about the Visual Studio Online with Microsoft Azure MSDN benefits, I talk about why you can not add Visual Studio Online to...
Visual Studio Online with Windows Azure MSDN benefit
I don’t know about you but when I watched the Visual Studio launch earlier this week I was really excited about some of the cool new features added. The firs...
Visual Studio 2012–Update Issues
Yesterday I decided to re-pave my personal development machine because it was acting crazy. Since Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 came out on that day, it was a...
DebuggerDisplay Attribute
Have you ever tried to debug an application and wish the Visual Studio debugger did not display {Namespace.ObjectName} when you wanted to see some of the det...
Visual Studio Theme Generator
I’ve been looking to PIMP my IDE by changing some of the colors to it. I came across this post on DevHammer which pointed https://frickinsweet.com/tools/The...
ASP.NET
Software Architecture with C# 9 and .NET 5 - Book Review
The book’s title should be Software Architecture with Azure, C# 9, and .NET since the book focuses on the Microsoft stack and development tools.
Migrate to ASP.NET Core MVC from ASP.NET Framework MVC
.NET has been around for a while and has had many versions. We started the .NET Framework, moved into .NET Core, and now just .NET, kind of sort of . ...
ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular - Book Review
Overall I enjoyed the outline and flow of this book. The author does an excellent job explaining things and makes no assumptions that the reader “knows it.”...
Using Yarn with ASP.NET Core Projects
Since I got bitten by the CI/CD bug, I’ve been looking at ways to clean up some code-bases and make it easier to deploy and store less unneeded files in my r...
Im Speaking on a Boat
Well, it’s more than a boat is a cruise ship, the Norwegian Cruise Lines Escape. We will be departing from Miami with port stops in Falmouth (Jamaica); Georg...
ASP.NET FriendlyUrls ViewSwitcher and jQuery Mobile
Sometime ago, September of 2012, Scott Hanselman blogged about a cool new library written for ASP.NET WebForms called ASP.NET Friendly URLs. The ASP.NET Frie...
New Sitefinity tool created
As some of you know, I have the Southeast Valley .NET User Group web site running on Telerik’s Sitefinity product. The product itself is awesome but needs a...
Creating a new Sitefinity generic content module
So, I heard that the Sitefinity application had this generic content module that was pretty easy to use to create your own module with. Why do you need to cr...
How do I format my GridView bound column differently?
Replace the ColumnName value with the name of your column. Replace DataFormatString property with the format string of your choosing. A good reference for ....
Technology
My Presentation and Travel Equipment
This month in a chat with the speakers of ESPC one of the United States based speakers asked about some travel gear recommendations. I shared my travel gear ...
What It Means to be a Software Engineer
There has been much talk on social media about being a Software Engineer/Developer/Programmer in the last week or so, probably because we are all being safe ...
New Type of Identity Theft
A few days ago, I got an email with the subject of Inquiry from a Michael Fleming at michaeltfleming6@gmail.com. Initially, I didn’t think anything of it. ...
ASP.NET FriendlyUrls ViewSwitcher and jQuery Mobile
Sometime ago, September of 2012, Scott Hanselman blogged about a cool new library written for ASP.NET WebForms called ASP.NET Friendly URLs. The ASP.NET Frie...
Desert Code Camp 2010.2 Sessions so far
Here is the list of sessions that have been submitted and approved as of September 17th, 2010. It even includes 3 sessions for our Gangplank Jr. track for ki...
Announcing Desert Code Camp 2010.2
I am pleased to announce the date for Desert Code Camp 2010.2, aka Nov2010 code camp. It will take place Saturday, November, 13th, 2010. There are a few cha...
Announcing Desert Code Camp 2010.1
It’s time for the 7th iteration of Desert Code Camp (my second one as director). Desert Code Camp will be held on May 15th at DeVry again.
Another Phoenix area meet up
Phoenix Geek Tag was a minor success so I decided to put together another Geek outing in October. Most likely October 20th starting around 6pm. I have narrow...
T-Mobile WiFi Calling
A month or so ago I signed up for this new T-Mobile plan that allows you to use your cell/mobile phone to make unlimited calls from almost any WiFi connectio...
Huge Collection of Technology Posters
A blog post from Chris Bowen has been making the rounds. It contains quite a few technology posters available. Here is a short sampling…
.NET Core
I’m Running for the Board of the Directors of the DotNet Foundation - 2022 Edition
I am a Microsoft Developer Service MVP, running for a Board of Directors position on the .NET Foundation. I have been an MVP since 2008. I have spoken at mul...
Book Review - Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6
You may have wanted to dabble in Parallel Programing (async/await), the Task Parallel Library (TPL), or other ways to make your application more responsive ...
Clean up some .NET Clutter
As some of you know, I do a lot of public speaking and blogging,
although the blogging seems to have taken a vacation lately .
One of the side effect...
Build, Sign, and Deploy NuGet Packages with Azure Pipeline
Let’s take a look how you can build an Azure pipeline that will build your NuGet package, sign it, then deploy it to Azure Artifacts
Setup an Azure Application with Permissions to Enable Certificate Signing
In a previous post, I walked through how to upload a code signing certificate to Azure Key Vault. This post will walk you through setting up the Azure “appl...
Setup Azure Artifacts to Host Your NuGet Packages
Let’s take a look how you can build an Azure pipeline that will build your NuGet package, sign it, then deploy it to Azure Artifacts
Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Vault
Let’s take a look at how you can set up and configure Azure Key Vault to store Code Signing Certificates
Im Speaking on a Boat
Well, it’s more than a boat is a cruise ship, the Norwegian Cruise Lines Escape. We will be departing from Miami with port stops in Falmouth (Jamaica); Georg...
Twitch
Coding with JoeG - Reboot
Tomorrow, August 11th, 2023, I will kick off my Coding with JoeG stream again and I’ll be joined by Richard Dudley. We’ll start the stream at 1pm MST/PST, 4p...
Coding with JoeG - Streaming Software Configuration - December 2020 Update
In a previous post, I covered the hardware I use for the stream. In this post, I’ll cover the software and settings to ‘produce’ the stream and artifacts. P...
Coding with JoeG - Streaming Hardware Configuration - December 2020 Update
Since the original ‘Stream Hardware Configuration post, I’ve changed my hardware configuration a bit. This post contains the most current hardware configura...
Coding with JoeG - Streaming Software Configuration
NOTE Since I have a new hardware configuration as outlined in ‘Stream Hardware Configuration - December 2020, I’ve updated the software configuration in the ...
Getting Started Streaming
As I posted about a month ago, I starting live coding sessions, aka streaming, on Twitch. This post is a ‘getting started guide’ for streaming, with a couple...
Coding with JoeG - Streaming Hardware Configuration
NOTE I have a new hardware configuration as outlined in ‘Stream Hardware Configuration - December 2020. Check it out!
Branding Your Stream
As you start streaming more or recording videos for the future, there are few things you may want to consider to tidy things up. Here are a few things you s...
Coding with JoeG - Stream Plugins
Plugins are an easy (in most cases) way to add additional functionality to your stream. Here is a collection of plugins that I use or are considering on usi...
Coding with JoeG - I’m Streaming
I’m joining many other technology leaders and public speakers and starting to live code on Twitch… maybe soon to YouTube!
Stream
Coding with JoeG - Reboot
Tomorrow, August 11th, 2023, I will kick off my Coding with JoeG stream again and I’ll be joined by Richard Dudley. We’ll start the stream at 1pm MST/PST, 4p...
Coding with JoeG - Streaming Software Configuration - December 2020 Update
In a previous post, I covered the hardware I use for the stream. In this post, I’ll cover the software and settings to ‘produce’ the stream and artifacts. P...
Coding with JoeG - Streaming Hardware Configuration - December 2020 Update
Since the original ‘Stream Hardware Configuration post, I’ve changed my hardware configuration a bit. This post contains the most current hardware configura...
Coding with JoeG - Streaming Software Configuration
NOTE Since I have a new hardware configuration as outlined in ‘Stream Hardware Configuration - December 2020, I’ve updated the software configuration in the ...
Getting Started Streaming
As I posted about a month ago, I starting live coding sessions, aka streaming, on Twitch. This post is a ‘getting started guide’ for streaming, with a couple...
Coding with JoeG - Streaming Hardware Configuration
NOTE I have a new hardware configuration as outlined in ‘Stream Hardware Configuration - December 2020. Check it out!
Branding Your Stream
As you start streaming more or recording videos for the future, there are few things you may want to consider to tidy things up. Here are a few things you s...
Coding with JoeG - Stream Plugins
Plugins are an easy (in most cases) way to add additional functionality to your stream. Here is a collection of plugins that I use or are considering on usi...
Coding with JoeG - I’m Streaming
I’m joining many other technology leaders and public speakers and starting to live code on Twitch… maybe soon to YouTube!
CodingWithJoeG
Coding with JoeG - Reboot
Tomorrow, August 11th, 2023, I will kick off my Coding with JoeG stream again and I’ll be joined by Richard Dudley. We’ll start the stream at 1pm MST/PST, 4p...
Coding with JoeG - Streaming Software Configuration - December 2020 Update
In a previous post, I covered the hardware I use for the stream. In this post, I’ll cover the software and settings to ‘produce’ the stream and artifacts. P...
Coding with JoeG - Streaming Hardware Configuration - December 2020 Update
Since the original ‘Stream Hardware Configuration post, I’ve changed my hardware configuration a bit. This post contains the most current hardware configura...
Coding with JoeG - Streaming Software Configuration
NOTE Since I have a new hardware configuration as outlined in ‘Stream Hardware Configuration - December 2020, I’ve updated the software configuration in the ...
Getting Started Streaming
As I posted about a month ago, I starting live coding sessions, aka streaming, on Twitch. This post is a ‘getting started guide’ for streaming, with a couple...
Coding with JoeG - Streaming Hardware Configuration
NOTE I have a new hardware configuration as outlined in ‘Stream Hardware Configuration - December 2020. Check it out!
Branding Your Stream
As you start streaming more or recording videos for the future, there are few things you may want to consider to tidy things up. Here are a few things you s...
Coding with JoeG - Stream Plugins
Plugins are an easy (in most cases) way to add additional functionality to your stream. Here is a collection of plugins that I use or are considering on usi...
Coding with JoeG - I’m Streaming
I’m joining many other technology leaders and public speakers and starting to live code on Twitch… maybe soon to YouTube!
Identity
Enabling user authentication in Swagger using Microsoft Identity
I’ve been working on a personal project of mine called “JosephGuadagno.NET Broadcasting”. I know a terrible name, but I’ll work on a better name when it’s re...
Working with Microsoft Identity - React Native Client
In this post, I’m going to walk through how you authenticate and use an API that is secured with Azure Active Directory using React Native and the Microsoft ...
Working with Microsoft Identity - Registering an Application
Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I d...
Working with Microsoft Identity - Configure Local Development
Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I d...
Working with Microsoft Identity - Assigning a Role
Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I d...
Securing Azure Containers and Blobs with Managed Identities
I’ve been streaming ‘Coding with JoeG’ on Twitch for a few months now. The general theme of the stream is teaching software development with C#. We’ve been b...
Connecting to a Protected API with Microsoft Identity Platform
In a previous post, I demonstrated how you can protect an ASP.NET Core Web API using the Microsoft Identity Platform. In this post, we are going to look at w...
Protecting an ASP.NET Core Web API with Microsoft Identity Platform
Microsoft Identity Web is a library which contains a set of reusable classes used in conjunction with ASP.NET Core for integrating with the Microsoft identit...
Hello Microsoft Identity Platform
Hello, Microsoft identity platform!
Personal
Thanksgiving and Silver Linings
While I am grateful for the old man bladder that woke me up at 2 am (AZ time) only to realize that my daughter was not home yet which kept me up (thank you p...
Priorities
A year ago, yesterday, I went to the Emergency Room because I was getting cold sweats, and something did not feel right with my body. Well, after a few tests...
15 Years Ago, I Witnessed Something That I Will Never Forget
There is an expression in the US and part of the world that goes ‘9/11 Never Forget’. I will never forget 9/11! I remember virtually every detail of those d...
Obsessed With Finding a Better Way
For those that are friends, follow this blog or follow me on Twitter, know that about 9 months ago I started working at Rocket Mortgage as a Software Archite...
Motivation
According to the Bing Dictionary, motivation is defined as follows:
40+
So this blog post has been pending for over 4 months. I originally had the idea on June 1st, the day after I turned 40. It was to be titled 40 + 1. The inten...
I Love Chandler…
No not Chandler Bing from Friends, although maybe Monica … it’s living in Chandler, Arizona.
A November to Remember
And no it is not because the Yankees won the World Series (although congrats to them) it is because it has been an awesome month for me personally and profes...
Microsoft Azure
Extended Validation (EV) Code Signing Certificates with Azure Key Vault and digicert
In a previous post, I showed you how to Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Vault. In this post, I will show you how to create an Extended Validati...
Adding Visual Studio Online to an Windows Azure MSDN Benefit Subscription
In my previous post where I talk about the Visual Studio Online with Microsoft Azure MSDN benefits, I talk about why you can not add Visual Studio Online to...
Visual Studio Online with Windows Azure MSDN benefit
I don’t know about you but when I watched the Visual Studio launch earlier this week I was really excited about some of the cool new features added. The firs...
Windows Azure Experience–Part 4: Customizing the Web Site
This Part 4 of a series of posts about my “upgrade” to Windows Azure. Next up in the series is customizing the Windows Azure Web Site.
Windows Azure Experience–Part 3: Creating the Web Site
This Part 3 of a series of posts about my “upgrade” to Windows Azure. Next up in the series is creating the Windows Azure Web Site.
Windows Azure Experience–Part 2: Management Portal
This Part 2 of a series of posts about my “upgrade” to Windows Azure. Next up in this series is the Windows Azure Management Portal. It can be accessed dire...
Windows Azure Experience–Part 1: Creating the Account
This Part 1 of a series of posts about my “upgrade” to Windows Azure.
The Windows Azure Experience
A few weeks ago, I embarked on a task to move one of my sites from a traditional hosting provider to Windows Azure Web Sites. I did this for a few reasons an...
dotnet
Encryption Is Now Required for SQL Server Connection Strings
While I was presenting my workshop Building and Deploying a New Cloud App from Scratch at DEVIntersections yesterday the connection to the database kept fai...
Book Review — Software Architecture for Web Developers
This book is broken up into three parts. In the first part, the author defines what software architecture is and what makes a good architecture. The seco...
I’m Running for the Board of the Directors of the DotNet Foundation - 2022 Edition
I am a Microsoft Developer Service MVP, running for a Board of Directors position on the .NET Foundation. I have been an MVP since 2008. I have spoken at mul...
Book Review - Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6
You may have wanted to dabble in Parallel Programing (async/await), the Task Parallel Library (TPL), or other ways to make your application more responsive ...
Clean up some .NET Clutter
As some of you know, I do a lot of public speaking and blogging,
although the blogging seems to have taken a vacation lately .
One of the side effect...
What’s New with Visual Studio 2022
Note: This post was originally posted on the Telerik blog.
What Was Added To C# 10
Note: This post was originally posted on the Telerik blog
MSAL
Enabling user authentication in Swagger using Microsoft Identity
I’ve been working on a personal project of mine called “JosephGuadagno.NET Broadcasting”. I know a terrible name, but I’ll work on a better name when it’s re...
Working with Microsoft Identity - React Native Client
In this post, I’m going to walk through how you authenticate and use an API that is secured with Azure Active Directory using React Native and the Microsoft ...
Working with Microsoft Identity - Registering an Application
Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I d...
Working with Microsoft Identity - Configure Local Development
Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I d...
Working with Microsoft Identity - Assigning a Role
Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I d...
Securing Azure Containers and Blobs with Managed Identities
I’ve been streaming ‘Coding with JoeG’ on Twitch for a few months now. The general theme of the stream is teaching software development with C#. We’ve been b...
Protecting an ASP.NET Core Web API with Microsoft Identity Platform
Microsoft Identity Web is a library which contains a set of reusable classes used in conjunction with ASP.NET Core for integrating with the Microsoft identit...
Hello Microsoft Identity Platform
Hello, Microsoft identity platform!
Managed Identity
Enabling user authentication in Swagger using Microsoft Identity
I’ve been working on a personal project of mine called “JosephGuadagno.NET Broadcasting”. I know a terrible name, but I’ll work on a better name when it’s re...
Working with Microsoft Identity - React Native Client
In this post, I’m going to walk through how you authenticate and use an API that is secured with Azure Active Directory using React Native and the Microsoft ...
Working with Microsoft Identity - Registering an Application
Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I d...
Working with Microsoft Identity - Configure Local Development
Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I d...
Working with Microsoft Identity - Assigning a Role
Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I d...
Securing Azure Containers and Blobs with Managed Identities
I’ve been streaming ‘Coding with JoeG’ on Twitch for a few months now. The general theme of the stream is teaching software development with C#. We’ve been b...
Protecting an ASP.NET Core Web API with Microsoft Identity Platform
Microsoft Identity Web is a library which contains a set of reusable classes used in conjunction with ASP.NET Core for integrating with the Microsoft identit...
Hello Microsoft Identity Platform
Hello, Microsoft identity platform!
jQuery
jQuery Twitter Bootstrap Flickr Carousel
A few months ago I built a jQuery plugin that uses the Twitter Bootstrap Carousel to cycle through images on Flickr. In order to use this plugin you need to ...
Bootstrap Theme Switcher jQuery plugin
A few months ago a published an article on a Bootstrap Theme Switcher. I’ve since approved this post and the JavaScript and turned it into a jQuery plugin. T...
Bootstrap Theme Switcher
UPDATE: This is now a jQuery Plugin. See the post Bootstrap Theme Switcher jQuery Plugin. While creating a Proof of Concept design for a web site I was worki...
Foursquare Autocomplete jQuery Plugin
This post will go over implementing the foursquare Autocomplete jQuery plugin. In the upcoming days (weeks) I will have a few blog posts on using the foursqu...
Using an ASP.NET DataRepeater ItemTemplate to create a jQuery Mobile Nested List with List Dividers
The jQuery Mobile framework has a list view widget that displays unordered lists in several different ways. In the process of converting the Microsoft Global...
Converting an ASP.NET “Mobile” site to use jQuery Mobile
Building upon my previous post Introduction to jQuery Mobile, I wanted to share how I converted the Microsoft Global MVP Summit mobile site to use jQuery Mob...
Introduction to jQuery Mobile
Back in November, I sat in on a session by Scott Hanselman on creating a mobile site on ASP.NET using jQuery Mobile. While I was watching this session I cou...
Windows Azure
Adding Visual Studio Online to an Windows Azure MSDN Benefit Subscription
In my previous post where I talk about the Visual Studio Online with Microsoft Azure MSDN benefits, I talk about why you can not add Visual Studio Online to...
Visual Studio Online with Windows Azure MSDN benefit
I don’t know about you but when I watched the Visual Studio launch earlier this week I was really excited about some of the cool new features added. The firs...
Windows Azure Experience–Part 4: Customizing the Web Site
This Part 4 of a series of posts about my “upgrade” to Windows Azure. Next up in the series is customizing the Windows Azure Web Site.
Windows Azure Experience–Part 3: Creating the Web Site
This Part 3 of a series of posts about my “upgrade” to Windows Azure. Next up in the series is creating the Windows Azure Web Site.
Windows Azure Experience–Part 2: Management Portal
This Part 2 of a series of posts about my “upgrade” to Windows Azure. Next up in this series is the Windows Azure Management Portal. It can be accessed dire...
Windows Azure Experience–Part 1: Creating the Account
This Part 1 of a series of posts about my “upgrade” to Windows Azure.
The Windows Azure Experience
A few weeks ago, I embarked on a task to move one of my sites from a traditional hosting provider to Windows Azure Web Sites. I did this for a few reasons an...
Key Vault
Extended Validation (EV) Code Signing Certificates with Azure Key Vault and digicert
In a previous post, I showed you how to Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Vault. In this post, I will show you how to create an Extended Validati...
Azure Key Vault - Update a Secret and its Properties Programmatically
When you use the Azure Key Vault SDK, you can create, read, update, and delete secrets. In this post, you will learn how to update a secret and its properti...
Securing Azure Function Settings with Azure Key Vault
In this post, we’ll walk through how you can use Azure Key Vault to secure sensitive settings in Azure Functions. If you don’t have a Key Vault setup, I cove...
Build, Sign, and Deploy NuGet Packages with Azure Pipeline
Let’s take a look how you can build an Azure pipeline that will build your NuGet package, sign it, then deploy it to Azure Artifacts
Setup an Azure Application with Permissions to Enable Certificate Signing
In a previous post, I walked through how to upload a code signing certificate to Azure Key Vault. This post will walk you through setting up the Azure “appl...
Setup Azure Artifacts to Host Your NuGet Packages
Let’s take a look how you can build an Azure pipeline that will build your NuGet package, sign it, then deploy it to Azure Artifacts
Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Vault
Let’s take a look at how you can set up and configure Azure Key Vault to store Code Signing Certificates
Entra
Enabling user authentication in Swagger using Microsoft Identity
I’ve been working on a personal project of mine called “JosephGuadagno.NET Broadcasting”. I know a terrible name, but I’ll work on a better name when it’s re...
Working with Microsoft Identity - React Native Client
In this post, I’m going to walk through how you authenticate and use an API that is secured with Azure Active Directory using React Native and the Microsoft ...
Working with Microsoft Identity - Registering an Application
Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I d...
Working with Microsoft Identity - Configure Local Development
Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I d...
Working with Microsoft Identity - Assigning a Role
Securing our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I d...
Protecting an ASP.NET Core Web API with Microsoft Identity Platform
Microsoft Identity Web is a library which contains a set of reusable classes used in conjunction with ASP.NET Core for integrating with the Microsoft identit...
Hello Microsoft Identity Platform
Hello, Microsoft identity platform!
Sitefinity
Add an iCal feed to Sitefinity
{:target=”_blank”}feeds let you share your and/or import your events that are stored in Sitefinity. Here is a library that will let you generate an iCal fee...
Sitefinity: Random Generic Content Control
Download RandomGCContent
New Sitefinity tool created
As some of you know, I have the Southeast Valley .NET User Group web site running on Telerik’s Sitefinity product. The product itself is awesome but needs a...
Creating a new Sitefinity generic content module
So, I heard that the Sitefinity application had this generic content module that was pretty easy to use to create your own module with. Why do you need to cr...
How to create a Sitefinity custom module
Download this document: How to create a Sitefinity custom module
Telerik.Events
This module is responsible for adding, removing, deleting events from the Sitefinity system. This guide is meant to supplement the documentation that is avai...
User Group
Thinking of starting a User Group
A while ago I was asked by a friend of mine in SoCal (Southern California) about how to start a user group. After answering his email I decided it would be n...
SEVDNUG: February Social Mixer
Join us for our 2nd social mixer of the year at Brunswick Zone in Gilbert for two hours of bowling and socializing taking place on Monday 2/22 at 6:00 PM.
Two Free Developer Events in Phoenix
MSDN Events: Take Your Applications Sky High with Cloud Computing and the Windows Azure Platform
Call for speakers for 2010
The Southeast Valley .NET User Group is looking for some speakers for 2010. The meetings are held monthly typically on the fourth Thursday of the month, alth...
Events for 2010
I recently sat down with some other community evangelists in the Chandler / Phoenix area to talk about some of the events that I plan to put on in the coming...
Southeast Valley .NET User Group site relaunched
Come check out the new site https://www.sevdnug.org
Speaking
2022 Fall Speaking Events
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at the following events this fall:
Using git tag for Presentations or Workshops
While we hope it never happens, demo failures happen when presenting talks or doing workshops. I do not know of a speaker that has not had a demo go bad whil...
Im Speaking on a Boat
Well, it’s more than a boat is a cruise ship, the Norwegian Cruise Lines Escape. We will be departing from Miami with port stops in Falmouth (Jamaica); Georg...
Why I Organize Desert Code Camp
While I was mingling at the Desert Code Camp after party, I was talking to a long time attendee, Liz. Liz makes the drive up from Tucson every year to attend...
Speakers are not Idols
I’ve noticed that at a lot of conferences I attend conference attendees are afraid to approach the conference speakers. It would appear that some attendees t...
Community Speaking and Cost
At the beginning of 2011, I set a goal for myself to speak at least twice at a community event that was outside of my area, the Phoenix metro area. There ar...
Plugin
My JetBrains Rider Plugins — July 2024 Edition
I’ve been using JetBrains Rider for quite some time now.
My JetBrains Rider Plugins—June 2022 Edition
I’ve updated my plugins list for JetBrains Rider. You can find the updated list in the post My JetBrains Rider Plugins — July 2024 Edition.
jQuery Twitter Bootstrap Flickr Carousel
A few months ago I built a jQuery plugin that uses the Twitter Bootstrap Carousel to cycle through images on Flickr. In order to use this plugin you need to ...
Bootstrap Theme Switcher jQuery plugin
A few months ago a published an article on a Bootstrap Theme Switcher. I’ve since approved this post and the JavaScript and turned it into a jQuery plugin. T...
Bootstrap Theme Switcher
UPDATE: This is now a jQuery Plugin. See the post Bootstrap Theme Switcher jQuery Plugin. While creating a Proof of Concept design for a web site I was worki...
Foursquare Autocomplete jQuery Plugin
This post will go over implementing the foursquare Autocomplete jQuery plugin. In the upcoming days (weeks) I will have a few blog posts on using the foursqu...
ASP.NET Core
Testing Web APIs or Services with JetBrains Rider
For the last week or so I’ve been working on modernizing the Desert Code Camp site which meant that I am basically rewriting it. Part of the rewrite...
Migrate to ASP.NET Core MVC from ASP.NET Framework MVC
.NET has been around for a while and has had many versions. We started the .NET Framework, moved into .NET Core, and now just .NET, kind of sort of . ...
ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular - Book Review
Overall I enjoyed the outline and flow of this book. The author does an excellent job explaining things and makes no assumptions that the reader “knows it.”...
Using Yarn with ASP.NET Core Projects
Since I got bitten by the CI/CD bug, I’ve been looking at ways to clean up some code-bases and make it easier to deploy and store less unneeded files in my r...
No route matches the supplied values
No route matches the supplied values
Connecting to a Protected API with Microsoft Identity Platform
In a previous post, I demonstrated how you can protect an ASP.NET Core Web API using the Microsoft Identity Platform. In this post, we are going to look at w...
ASP.NET Core MVC
Software Architecture with C# 9 and .NET 5 - Book Review
The book’s title should be Software Architecture with Azure, C# 9, and .NET since the book focuses on the Microsoft stack and development tools.
Migrate to ASP.NET Core MVC from ASP.NET Framework MVC
.NET has been around for a while and has had many versions. We started the .NET Framework, moved into .NET Core, and now just .NET, kind of sort of . ...
ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular - Book Review
Overall I enjoyed the outline and flow of this book. The author does an excellent job explaining things and makes no assumptions that the reader “knows it.”...
Using Yarn with ASP.NET Core Projects
Since I got bitten by the CI/CD bug, I’ve been looking at ways to clean up some code-bases and make it easier to deploy and store less unneeded files in my r...
No route matches the supplied values
No route matches the supplied values
Connecting to a Protected API with Microsoft Identity Platform
In a previous post, I demonstrated how you can protect an ASP.NET Core Web API using the Microsoft Identity Platform. In this post, we are going to look at w...
Microsoft
MVP Summit Events Site Relaunched
Are you going to Microsoft 2011 Global MVP Summit in February? If so, you might want to check out the updated site I launched called MVP Summit Events. MVP S...
Announcing PDCEvents.info
Back a while ago, I created a site to track events at the Microsoft MVP Global Summit. I did this because there are so many after parties or events that happ...
Announcing PDCEvents.info
One thing that I have noticed of the past few years when it comes to conference or “Summits” is that there are a lot of after parties, tweets, etc. that happ...
Mix 10 Events Site Launched
Are you going to Mix10 in March? If so, you might want to check out the new site I launched call Mix 10 Events. Mix 10 Events will be you one stop shop for ...
MVP Summit Events Launched
One thing that I have noticed of the past few years when it comes to conference or “Summits” is that there are a lot of after parties, tweets, etc. that happ...
Presentations
My Presentation and Travel Equipment
This month in a chat with the speakers of ESPC one of the United States based speakers asked about some travel gear recommendations. I shared my travel gear ...
2022 Fall Speaking Events
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at the following events this fall:
Using git tag for Presentations or Workshops
While we hope it never happens, demo failures happen when presenting talks or doing workshops. I do not know of a speaker that has not had a demo go bad whil...
Visual Studio Settings for Presentations
There was a twitter conversation around building an extension to make it easier for presenters/twitchers and others to quickly switch between settings in Vis...
Community Speaking and Cost
At the beginning of 2011, I set a goal for myself to speak at least twice at a community event that was outside of my area, the Phoenix metro area. There ar...
Bootstrap
Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC Review
Starts off with a good introduction to using Bootstrap in your ASP.NET applications. It covers the default “File | New” experience, manually added files and ...
jQuery Twitter Bootstrap Flickr Carousel
A few months ago I built a jQuery plugin that uses the Twitter Bootstrap Carousel to cycle through images on Flickr. In order to use this plugin you need to ...
Bootstrap Theme Switcher jQuery plugin
A few months ago a published an article on a Bootstrap Theme Switcher. I’ve since approved this post and the JavaScript and turned it into a jQuery plugin. T...
Bootstrap Theme Switcher
UPDATE: This is now a jQuery Plugin. See the post Bootstrap Theme Switcher jQuery Plugin. While creating a Proof of Concept design for a web site I was worki...
Twitter Bootstrap Resources
This does Over the past few months, I have built quite a few sites using Twitter Bootstrap. I think it is an awesome framework for styling websites and abstr...
Twitter Bootstrap
Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC Review
Starts off with a good introduction to using Bootstrap in your ASP.NET applications. It covers the default “File | New” experience, manually added files and ...
jQuery Twitter Bootstrap Flickr Carousel
A few months ago I built a jQuery plugin that uses the Twitter Bootstrap Carousel to cycle through images on Flickr. In order to use this plugin you need to ...
Bootstrap Theme Switcher jQuery plugin
A few months ago a published an article on a Bootstrap Theme Switcher. I’ve since approved this post and the JavaScript and turned it into a jQuery plugin. T...
Bootstrap Theme Switcher
UPDATE: This is now a jQuery Plugin. See the post Bootstrap Theme Switcher jQuery Plugin. While creating a Proof of Concept design for a web site I was worki...
Twitter Bootstrap Resources
This does Over the past few months, I have built quite a few sites using Twitter Bootstrap. I think it is an awesome framework for styling websites and abstr...
NuGet
Build, Sign, and Deploy NuGet Packages with Azure Pipeline
Let’s take a look how you can build an Azure pipeline that will build your NuGet package, sign it, then deploy it to Azure Artifacts
Setup an Azure Application with Permissions to Enable Certificate Signing
In a previous post, I walked through how to upload a code signing certificate to Azure Key Vault. This post will walk you through setting up the Azure “appl...
Setup Azure Artifacts to Host Your NuGet Packages
Let’s take a look how you can build an Azure pipeline that will build your NuGet package, sign it, then deploy it to Azure Artifacts
Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Vault
Let’s take a look at how you can set up and configure Azure Key Vault to store Code Signing Certificates
Pro NuGet Book Review
First off, I love the subtitle “Your Salvation from Dependency Hell’, although NuGet does offer its own Dependency Hell sometimes.
Jekyll
Migrate to GitHub Actions from Pages Legacy Worker
GitHub Pages has deprecated the legacy worker and will be removed by the end of June 2024. The legacy worker was used to build and deploy Jekyll sites on Git...
Getting Started with Dev Containers
Recently, I attended a session at DEVIntersections on Dev Containers presented by Burke Holland. Prior to attending the session, I knew of Development Contai...
Embedding OneDrive Hosted PowerPoint slides in Jekyll Posts
I was chatting with Dave Brock (@daveabrock) about our .NET 5 presentations today (.NET 5 - What is it?). He mentioned that he wanted to “steal” my PowerPoin...
Dynamic Blog Posts with Jekyll
Well “dynamic-ish”. The Speaking Engagements page on this site uses data files to generate the list of upcoming and previous speaking engagements. Which gene...
Welcome to Jekyll!
TODO: I need to write this
presenting
My Presentation and Travel Equipment
This month in a chat with the speakers of ESPC one of the United States based speakers asked about some travel gear recommendations. I shared my travel gear ...
My JetBrains Rider Plugins — July 2024 Edition
I’ve been using JetBrains Rider for quite some time now.
2022 Fall Speaking Events
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at the following events this fall:
My JetBrains Rider Plugins—June 2022 Edition
I’ve updated my plugins list for JetBrains Rider. You can find the updated list in the post My JetBrains Rider Plugins — July 2024 Edition.
Visual Studio Settings for Presentations
There was a twitter conversation around building an extension to make it easier for presenters/twitchers and others to quickly switch between settings in Vis...
WebAPI
Testing Web APIs or Services with JetBrains Rider
For the last week or so I’ve been working on modernizing the Desert Code Camp site which meant that I am basically rewriting it. Part of the rewrite...
No route matches the supplied values
No route matches the supplied values
Connecting to a Protected API with Microsoft Identity Platform
In a previous post, I demonstrated how you can protect an ASP.NET Core Web API using the Microsoft Identity Platform. In this post, we are going to look at w...
Protecting an ASP.NET Core Web API with Microsoft Identity Platform
Microsoft Identity Web is a library which contains a set of reusable classes used in conjunction with ASP.NET Core for integrating with the Microsoft identit...
Hello Microsoft Identity Platform
Hello, Microsoft identity platform!
Rider
My JetBrains Rider Plugins — July 2024 Edition
I’ve been using JetBrains Rider for quite some time now.
My JetBrains Rider Plugins—June 2022 Edition
I’ve updated my plugins list for JetBrains Rider. You can find the updated list in the post My JetBrains Rider Plugins — July 2024 Edition.
Testing Web APIs or Services with JetBrains Rider
For the last week or so I’ve been working on modernizing the Desert Code Camp site which meant that I am basically rewriting it. Part of the rewrite...
Debugging Azure Function Event Grid Triggers Locally with JetBrains Rider
If you’ve done much with Azure Functions and the Event Grid triggers, you’ve probably come across the post ‘Azure Function Event Grid Trigger Local Debugging...
Speed up Creating Code with Live Templates in JetBrains Rider or ReSharper
For the past few weekends, I’ve been working rebuilding a library I wrote to make it easier to use Azure Storage. I started this library about 4 or 5 years a...
INETA
2 Year Retrospective
At around 6:30am PST on 3/19/2013, I hung up the phone from my last INETA North America Board meeting in which I was the President. I actually did not hit me...
My TechEd Video on Community
Back in May at TechEd North America Developer Express interviewed me about INETA, Community and Desert Code Camp. Check out the video.
INETA and TechEd
Since being elected the President of INETA North America in April, I have heard some good and bad things about INETA from several people. I want to make INE...
A November to Remember
And no it is not because the Yankees won the World Series (although congrats to them) it is because it has been an awesome month for me personally and profes...
jQuery Plugin
jQuery Twitter Bootstrap Flickr Carousel
A few months ago I built a jQuery plugin that uses the Twitter Bootstrap Carousel to cycle through images on Flickr. In order to use this plugin you need to ...
Bootstrap Theme Switcher jQuery plugin
A few months ago a published an article on a Bootstrap Theme Switcher. I’ve since approved this post and the JavaScript and turned it into a jQuery plugin. T...
Bootstrap Theme Switcher
UPDATE: This is now a jQuery Plugin. See the post Bootstrap Theme Switcher jQuery Plugin. While creating a Proof of Concept design for a web site I was worki...
Foursquare Autocomplete jQuery Plugin
This post will go over implementing the foursquare Autocomplete jQuery plugin. In the upcoming days (weeks) I will have a few blog posts on using the foursqu...
Productivity
My Presentation and Travel Equipment
This month in a chat with the speakers of ESPC one of the United States based speakers asked about some travel gear recommendations. I shared my travel gear ...
Power Prompt with Windows Terminal and Oh My Posh
In this post, I’ll show you how you can “power-up” your PowerShell shell prompt terminal window with Windows Terminal, PowerShell Core, and Oh-My-Posh to imp...
Speed up Creating Code with Live Templates in JetBrains Rider or ReSharper
For the past few weekends, I’ve been working rebuilding a library I wrote to make it easier to use Azure Storage. I started this library about 4 or 5 years a...
Being More Productive with @Todoist
It’s not unusual nowadays for the typical person to be overwhelmed with tasks that we need to get accomplished on a day to day, week to week or just plain ne...
Certificate
Extended Validation (EV) Code Signing Certificates with Azure Key Vault and digicert
In a previous post, I showed you how to Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Vault. In this post, I will show you how to create an Extended Validati...
Build, Sign, and Deploy NuGet Packages with Azure Pipeline
Let’s take a look how you can build an Azure pipeline that will build your NuGet package, sign it, then deploy it to Azure Artifacts
Setup an Azure Application with Permissions to Enable Certificate Signing
In a previous post, I walked through how to upload a code signing certificate to Azure Key Vault. This post will walk you through setting up the Azure “appl...
Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Vault
Let’s take a look at how you can set up and configure Azure Key Vault to store Code Signing Certificates
JetBrains
My JetBrains Rider Plugins — July 2024 Edition
I’ve been using JetBrains Rider for quite some time now.
My JetBrains Rider Plugins—June 2022 Edition
I’ve updated my plugins list for JetBrains Rider. You can find the updated list in the post My JetBrains Rider Plugins — July 2024 Edition.
Testing Web APIs or Services with JetBrains Rider
For the last week or so I’ve been working on modernizing the Desert Code Camp site which meant that I am basically rewriting it. Part of the rewrite...
Speed up Creating Code with Live Templates in JetBrains Rider or ReSharper
For the past few weekends, I’ve been working rebuilding a library I wrote to make it easier to use Azure Storage. I started this library about 4 or 5 years a...
MVC
Migrate to ASP.NET Core MVC from ASP.NET Framework MVC
.NET has been around for a while and has had many versions. We started the .NET Framework, moved into .NET Core, and now just .NET, kind of sort of . ...
Using Yarn with ASP.NET Core Projects
Since I got bitten by the CI/CD bug, I’ve been looking at ways to clean up some code-bases and make it easier to deploy and store less unneeded files in my r...
No route matches the supplied values
No route matches the supplied values
Connecting to a Protected API with Microsoft Identity Platform
In a previous post, I demonstrated how you can protect an ASP.NET Core Web API using the Microsoft Identity Platform. In this post, we are going to look at w...
csharp
Working with the LinkedIn API with C#
The last day few days, I have been experimenting with the LinkedIn API to send my blog posts, YouTube videos, and community updates automatically to my Linke...
Book Review - Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6
You may have wanted to dabble in Parallel Programing (async/await), the Task Parallel Library (TPL), or other ways to make your application more responsive ...
Clean up some .NET Clutter
As some of you know, I do a lot of public speaking and blogging,
although the blogging seems to have taken a vacation lately .
One of the side effect...
What Was Added To C# 10
Note: This post was originally posted on the Telerik blog
MVP
The Power of Community
This blog post has been a long time coming. As a matter of fact, it has been on my Todo list for about two years. I know I am behind . While parts of ...
So you want to be a Microsoft MVP
It’s very common for myself and other Microsoft MVPs to get asked “What does it take to become a Microsoft MVP” or “I want to be a Microsoft MVP, please tell...
MVP Summit Events Site Relaunched
Are you going to Microsoft 2011 Global MVP Summit in February? If so, you might want to check out the updated site I launched called MVP Summit Events. MVP S...
Presentation
2022 Fall Speaking Events
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at the following events this fall:
Using git tag for Presentations or Workshops
While we hope it never happens, demo failures happen when presenting talks or doing workshops. I do not know of a speaker that has not had a demo go bad whil...
Visual Studio Settings for Presentations
There was a twitter conversation around building an extension to make it easier for presenters/twitchers and others to quickly switch between settings in Vis...
Pipeline
Build, Sign, and Deploy NuGet Packages with Azure Pipeline
Let’s take a look how you can build an Azure pipeline that will build your NuGet package, sign it, then deploy it to Azure Artifacts
Setup an Azure Application with Permissions to Enable Certificate Signing
In a previous post, I walked through how to upload a code signing certificate to Azure Key Vault. This post will walk you through setting up the Azure “appl...
Setup Azure Artifacts to Host Your NuGet Packages
Let’s take a look how you can build an Azure pipeline that will build your NuGet package, sign it, then deploy it to Azure Artifacts
Azure Artifacts
Build, Sign, and Deploy NuGet Packages with Azure Pipeline
Let’s take a look how you can build an Azure pipeline that will build your NuGet package, sign it, then deploy it to Azure Artifacts
Setup an Azure Application with Permissions to Enable Certificate Signing
In a previous post, I walked through how to upload a code signing certificate to Azure Key Vault. This post will walk you through setting up the Azure “appl...
Setup Azure Artifacts to Host Your NuGet Packages
Let’s take a look how you can build an Azure pipeline that will build your NuGet package, sign it, then deploy it to Azure Artifacts
Functions
Dependency Injection with Azure Functions
I got bit by the dependency injection bug a few months ago and want to use it when I can, and it makes sense. Within a month or so of writing this post, Azur...
Debugging Azure Function Event Grid Triggers Locally with JetBrains Rider
If you’ve done much with Azure Functions and the Event Grid triggers, you’ve probably come across the post ‘Azure Function Event Grid Trigger Local Debugging...
Securing Azure Function Settings with Azure Key Vault
In this post, we’ll walk through how you can use Azure Key Vault to secure sensitive settings in Azure Functions. If you don’t have a Key Vault setup, I cove...
Containers
Docker Volume Location on Windows
Like a lot of engineers nowadays, I use Docker for my development environment. I have a Windows 11 machine with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and I use ...
Getting Started with Dev Containers
Recently, I attended a session at DEVIntersections on Dev Containers presented by Burke Holland. Prior to attending the session, I knew of Development Contai...
Securing Azure Containers and Blobs with Managed Identities
I’ve been streaming ‘Coding with JoeG’ on Twitch for a few months now. The general theme of the stream is teaching software development with C#. We’ve been b...
Windows11
Docker Volume Location on Windows
Like a lot of engineers nowadays, I use Docker for my development environment. I have a Windows 11 machine with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and I use ...
7 Windows 11 Tips
It’s July 11th, or 7/11/21 (in the U.S.), so I am bringing you 7 Windows 11 tips. See what I did there. I know, it’s corny, and really only applicabl...
Windows 11 - A First Look
Windows 11 or I am calling it right now, the Who Moved My Cheese Edition, was announced and shown to the world a few days ago. Why do you call it the Who Mov...
Miscellaneous
Huge Collection of Technology Posters
A blog post from Chris Bowen has been making the rounds. It contains quite a few technology posters available. Here is a short sampling…
Desert Code Camp: Using AjaxPro.Net
Download the PowerPoint® slide at Desert Code Camp.ppt
Telerik
Creating a Search Suggestion widget using Azure Maps Search Service and KendoUI Autocomplete.
When using Google or Bing Maps to lookup an address or point of interest, both display address suggestions in a user-friendly way. In the example below, I ty...
Telerik.Events
This module is responsible for adding, removing, deleting events from the Sitefinity system. This guide is meant to supplement the documentation that is avai...
Bing
Using Bing Maps Web Services Imagery Service
In my previous post, Using the Bing Maps Web Services for Geocoding Addresses, I talk about geocoding addresses using the Bing Maps Web Services. Now it is t...
Using the Bing Maps Web Services for Geocoding Addresses
For the MVPSummitEvents and Mix10Events site, I wanted to create a map of all of the events listed on the site. In order to do that I needed to Geocode all o...
jQuery Mobile
ASP.NET FriendlyUrls ViewSwitcher and jQuery Mobile
Sometime ago, September of 2012, Scott Hanselman blogged about a cool new library written for ASP.NET WebForms called ASP.NET Friendly URLs. The ASP.NET Frie...
Using an ASP.NET DataRepeater ItemTemplate to create a jQuery Mobile Nested List with List Dividers
The jQuery Mobile framework has a list view widget that displays unordered lists in several different ways. In the process of converting the Microsoft Global...
Visual Studio Online
Adding Visual Studio Online to an Windows Azure MSDN Benefit Subscription
In my previous post where I talk about the Visual Studio Online with Microsoft Azure MSDN benefits, I talk about why you can not add Visual Studio Online to...
Visual Studio Online with Windows Azure MSDN benefit
I don’t know about you but when I watched the Visual Studio launch earlier this week I was really excited about some of the cool new features added. The firs...
Microsoft MVP
The Power of Community
This blog post has been a long time coming. As a matter of fact, it has been on my Todo list for about two years. I know I am behind . While parts of ...
So you want to be a Microsoft MVP
It’s very common for myself and other Microsoft MVPs to get asked “What does it take to become a Microsoft MVP” or “I want to be a Microsoft MVP, please tell...
testing
How to simplify your C# unit testing with a mocking framework
It’s time to take your unit testing to the next level. You’ve implemented either NUnit, or xUnit, or MSTest in your projects. You’ve gotten your code covera...
A Tester and/or Unit Tests Should Be Your Friend
A little bit over three years when I started at Rocket Mortgage as a Software Architect I did not know/understand how valuable the Quality Analyst (QA) or te...
git
Power Prompt with Windows Terminal and Oh My Posh
In this post, I’ll show you how you can “power-up” your PowerShell shell prompt terminal window with Windows Terminal, PowerShell Core, and Oh-My-Posh to imp...
Using git tag for Presentations or Workshops
While we hope it never happens, demo failures happen when presenting talks or doing workshops. I do not know of a speaker that has not had a demo go bad whil...
Code Signing
Extended Validation (EV) Code Signing Certificates with Azure Key Vault and digicert
In a previous post, I showed you how to Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Vault. In this post, I will show you how to create an Extended Validati...
Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Vault
Let’s take a look at how you can set up and configure Azure Key Vault to store Code Signing Certificates
Unit Tests
How to simplify your C# unit testing with a mocking framework
It’s time to take your unit testing to the next level. You’ve implemented either NUnit, or xUnit, or MSTest in your projects. You’ve gotten your code covera...
Speed up Creating Code with Live Templates in JetBrains Rider or ReSharper
For the past few weekends, I’ve been working rebuilding a library I wrote to make it easier to use Azure Storage. I started this library about 4 or 5 years a...
Dependency Injection
NLog, Dependency Injection, and Azure Functions, Oh My!
Update November 5th, 2020 Thanks to Rolf Kristensen, one of the NLog maintainers, and some debugging, I came up with another solution!
Dependency Injection with Azure Functions
I got bit by the dependency injection bug a few months ago and want to use it when I can, and it makes sense. Within a month or so of writing this post, Azur...
Razor
Migrate to ASP.NET Core MVC from ASP.NET Framework MVC
.NET has been around for a while and has had many versions. We started the .NET Framework, moved into .NET Core, and now just .NET, kind of sort of . ...
Using Yarn with ASP.NET Core Projects
Since I got bitten by the CI/CD bug, I’ve been looking at ways to clean up some code-bases and make it easier to deploy and store less unneeded files in my r...
Architecture
Book Review — Software Architecture for Web Developers
This book is broken up into three parts. In the first part, the author defines what software architecture is and what makes a good architecture. The seco...
Software Architecture with C# 9 and .NET 5 - Book Review
The book’s title should be Software Architecture with Azure, C# 9, and .NET since the book focuses on the Microsoft stack and development tools.
GitHub
Migrate to GitHub Actions from Pages Legacy Worker
GitHub Pages has deprecated the legacy worker and will be removed by the end of June 2024. The legacy worker was used to build and deploy Jekyll sites on Git...
This post was written with GitHub Copilot
In this post, I will be writing about how I used GitHub Copilot to write this post. You might be thinking that GitHub Copilot is a for writing code and you w...
Docker
Docker Volume Location on Windows
Like a lot of engineers nowadays, I use Docker for my development environment. I have a Windows 11 machine with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and I use ...
Getting Started with Dev Containers
Recently, I attended a session at DEVIntersections on Dev Containers presented by Burke Holland. Prior to attending the session, I knew of Development Contai...
Working with the LinkedIn API with C#
The last day few days, I have been experimenting with the LinkedIn API to send my blog posts, YouTube videos, and community updates automatically to my Linke...
LinkedIn has an AI Assisted Editor for Post
With me on the hunt for a new job, at the time of this post being authored, I have been pretty active on LinkedIn. The last day or so, I have been experiment...
ADO.NET
Back to Top ↑Oracle
Back to Top ↑MySQL
Back to Top ↑SQLite
Back to Top ↑NHibernate
Back to Top ↑Database
Back to Top ↑GridView
How do I format my GridView bound column differently?
Replace the ColumnName value with the name of your column. Replace DataFormatString property with the format string of your choosing. A good reference for ....
How to use the Google AJAX Search API on your website.
The Google AJAX Search API
Sitemap
Back to Top ↑Search
Back to Top ↑SEO
Back to Top ↑MVP Summit
MVP Summit Events Launched
One thing that I have noticed of the past few years when it comes to conference or “Summits” is that there are a lot of after parties, tweets, etc. that happ...
Mix10
Mix 10 Events Site Launched
Are you going to Mix10 in March? If so, you might want to check out the new site I launched call Mix 10 Events. Mix 10 Events will be you one stop shop for ...
Bing Maps
Using the Bing Maps Web Services for Geocoding Addresses
For the MVPSummitEvents and Mix10Events site, I wanted to create a map of all of the events listed on the site. In order to do that I needed to Geocode all o...
TechEd
My TechEd Video on Community
Back in May at TechEd North America Developer Express interviewed me about INETA, Community and Desert Code Camp. Check out the video.
DataRepeater
Using an ASP.NET DataRepeater ItemTemplate to create a jQuery Mobile Nested List with List Dividers
The jQuery Mobile framework has a list view widget that displays unordered lists in several different ways. In the process of converting the Microsoft Global...
Foursquare
Foursquare Autocomplete jQuery Plugin
This post will go over implementing the foursquare Autocomplete jQuery plugin. In the upcoming days (weeks) I will have a few blog posts on using the foursqu...
hosting
Taking the “Leap” to Everleap
For the past 5+ years, I’ve had a few different sites hosted at Discount ASP.NET, this site being one of them. Recently, Discount ASP.NET released a new prod...
Theme
Bootstrap Theme Switcher jQuery plugin
A few months ago a published an article on a Bootstrap Theme Switcher. I’ve since approved this post and the JavaScript and turned it into a jQuery plugin. T...
Carousel
jQuery Twitter Bootstrap Flickr Carousel
A few months ago I built a jQuery plugin that uses the Twitter Bootstrap Carousel to cycle through images on Flickr. In order to use this plugin you need to ...
Flickr
jQuery Twitter Bootstrap Flickr Carousel
A few months ago I built a jQuery plugin that uses the Twitter Bootstrap Carousel to cycle through images on Flickr. In order to use this plugin you need to ...
qa
A Tester and/or Unit Tests Should Be Your Friend
A little bit over three years when I started at Rocket Mortgage as a Software Architect I did not know/understand how valuable the Quality Analyst (QA) or te...
uat
A Tester and/or Unit Tests Should Be Your Friend
A little bit over three years when I started at Rocket Mortgage as a Software Architect I did not know/understand how valuable the Quality Analyst (QA) or te...
gmail.com
Using SendGrid and emails are not being delivered to Hotmail/Outlook/Live/MSN.com recipients?
Me too, or at least I was… While the problem I was having might not be related to SendGrid exclusively, I am going to talk about the solution.
Hotmail.com
Using SendGrid and emails are not being delivered to Hotmail/Outlook/Live/MSN.com recipients?
Me too, or at least I was… While the problem I was having might not be related to SendGrid exclusively, I am going to talk about the solution.
Live.com
Using SendGrid and emails are not being delivered to Hotmail/Outlook/Live/MSN.com recipients?
Me too, or at least I was… While the problem I was having might not be related to SendGrid exclusively, I am going to talk about the solution.
msn.com
Using SendGrid and emails are not being delivered to Hotmail/Outlook/Live/MSN.com recipients?
Me too, or at least I was… While the problem I was having might not be related to SendGrid exclusively, I am going to talk about the solution.
Outlook.com
Using SendGrid and emails are not being delivered to Hotmail/Outlook/Live/MSN.com recipients?
Me too, or at least I was… While the problem I was having might not be related to SendGrid exclusively, I am going to talk about the solution.
SendGrid
Using SendGrid and emails are not being delivered to Hotmail/Outlook/Live/MSN.com recipients?
Me too, or at least I was… While the problem I was having might not be related to SendGrid exclusively, I am going to talk about the solution.
yahoo.com
Using SendGrid and emails are not being delivered to Hotmail/Outlook/Live/MSN.com recipients?
Me too, or at least I was… While the problem I was having might not be related to SendGrid exclusively, I am going to talk about the solution.
stem
Congressional App Challenge
I was proud to participate in the Congressional App Challenge last year even though it was just to help promote it in Arizona. The Congressional App Challeng...
government
Congressional App Challenge
I was proud to participate in the Congressional App Challenge last year even though it was just to help promote it in Arizona. The Congressional App Challeng...
Identity Theft
New Type of Identity Theft
A few days ago, I got an email with the subject of Inquiry from a Michael Fleming at michaeltfleming6@gmail.com. Initially, I didn’t think anything of it. ...
Security
New Type of Identity Theft
A few days ago, I got an email with the subject of Inquiry from a Michael Fleming at michaeltfleming6@gmail.com. Initially, I didn’t think anything of it. ...
Settings
Visual Studio Settings for Presentations
There was a twitter conversation around building an extension to make it easier for presenters/twitchers and others to quickly switch between settings in Vis...
workshop
Using git tag for Presentations or Workshops
While we hope it never happens, demo failures happen when presenting talks or doing workshops. I do not know of a speaker that has not had a demo go bad whil...
Api
Hello Microsoft Identity Platform
Hello, Microsoft identity platform!
OAuth
Hello Microsoft Identity Platform
Hello, Microsoft identity platform!
ReSharper
Speed up Creating Code with Live Templates in JetBrains Rider or ReSharper
For the past few weekends, I’ve been working rebuilding a library I wrote to make it easier to use Azure Storage. I started this library about 4 or 5 years a...
Event Grid
Debugging Azure Function Event Grid Triggers Locally with JetBrains Rider
If you’ve done much with Azure Functions and the Event Grid triggers, you’ve probably come across the post ‘Azure Function Event Grid Trigger Local Debugging...
Blob
Securing Azure Containers and Blobs with Managed Identities
I’ve been streaming ‘Coding with JoeG’ on Twitch for a few months now. The general theme of the stream is teaching software development with C#. We’ve been b...
React Native
Working with Microsoft Identity - React Native Client
In this post, I’m going to walk through how you authenticate and use an API that is secured with Azure Active Directory using React Native and the Microsoft ...
Azure Functions
NLog, Dependency Injection, and Azure Functions, Oh My!
Update November 5th, 2020 Thanks to Rolf Kristensen, one of the NLog maintainers, and some debugging, I came up with another solution!
NLog
NLog, Dependency Injection, and Azure Functions, Oh My!
Update November 5th, 2020 Thanks to Rolf Kristensen, one of the NLog maintainers, and some debugging, I came up with another solution!
OneDrive
Embedding OneDrive Hosted PowerPoint slides in Jekyll Posts
I was chatting with Dave Brock (@daveabrock) about our .NET 5 presentations today (.NET 5 - What is it?). He mentioned that he wanted to “steal” my PowerPoin...
PowerPoint
Embedding OneDrive Hosted PowerPoint slides in Jekyll Posts
I was chatting with Dave Brock (@daveabrock) about our .NET 5 presentations today (.NET 5 - What is it?). He mentioned that he wanted to “steal” my PowerPoin...
App Service
Adding .NET 5 Support to Azure App Service
Yesterday I updated the Contacts to .NET 5. Now the process was pretty easy, you can watch the video here, however once published to Azure App Service I got...
.NET 5
Adding .NET 5 Support to Azure App Service
Yesterday I updated the Contacts to .NET 5. Now the process was pretty easy, you can watch the video here, however once published to Azure App Service I got...
MoCa
Hard Wire your Home without Ethernet using MoCA
There are so many devices that are connected to our home networks nowadays. I have multiple Amazon Fire Sticks, computers, smart TVs, mobile phones, smart ap...
Networking
Hard Wire your Home without Ethernet using MoCA
There are so many devices that are connected to our home networks nowadays. I have multiple Amazon Fire Sticks, computers, smart TVs, mobile phones, smart ap...
Yarn
Using Yarn with ASP.NET Core Projects
Since I got bitten by the CI/CD bug, I’ve been looking at ways to clean up some code-bases and make it easier to deploy and store less unneeded files in my r...
Azure Maps
Creating a Search Suggestion widget using Azure Maps Search Service and KendoUI Autocomplete.
When using Google or Bing Maps to lookup an address or point of interest, both display address suggestions in a user-friendly way. In the example below, I ty...
Azure Maps Search
Creating a Search Suggestion widget using Azure Maps Search Service and KendoUI Autocomplete.
When using Google or Bing Maps to lookup an address or point of interest, both display address suggestions in a user-friendly way. In the example below, I ty...
Kendo UI
Creating a Search Suggestion widget using Azure Maps Search Service and KendoUI Autocomplete.
When using Google or Bing Maps to lookup an address or point of interest, both display address suggestions in a user-friendly way. In the example below, I ty...
Autocomplete
Creating a Search Suggestion widget using Azure Maps Search Service and KendoUI Autocomplete.
When using Google or Bing Maps to lookup an address or point of interest, both display address suggestions in a user-friendly way. In the example below, I ty...
Angular
ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular - Book Review
Overall I enjoyed the outline and flow of this book. The author does an excellent job explaining things and makes no assumptions that the reader “knows it.”...
.NET Framework
Migrate to ASP.NET Core MVC from ASP.NET Framework MVC
.NET has been around for a while and has had many versions. We started the .NET Framework, moved into .NET Core, and now just .NET, kind of sort of . ...
Record
What I Like About C# 9
Note: This post was originally posted on the Telerik blog.
Init
What I Like About C# 9
Note: This post was originally posted on the Telerik blog.
Namespaces
What Was Added To C# 10
Note: This post was originally posted on the Telerik blog
Interpolation
What Was Added To C# 10
Note: This post was originally posted on the Telerik blog
CallerArgumentExpression
What Was Added To C# 10
Note: This post was originally posted on the Telerik blog
Pattern Matching
What Was Added To C# 10
Note: This post was originally posted on the Telerik blog
Visual Studio 2022
What’s New with Visual Studio 2022
Note: This post was originally posted on the Telerik blog.
CoPilot
This post was written with GitHub Copilot
In this post, I will be writing about how I used GitHub Copilot to write this post. You might be thinking that GitHub Copilot is a for writing code and you w...
blog
This post was written with GitHub Copilot
In this post, I will be writing about how I used GitHub Copilot to write this post. You might be thinking that GitHub Copilot is a for writing code and you w...
swagger
Enabling user authentication in Swagger using Microsoft Identity
I’ve been working on a personal project of mine called “JosephGuadagno.NET Broadcasting”. I know a terrible name, but I’ll work on a better name when it’s re...
sdk
Clean up some .NET Clutter
As some of you know, I do a lot of public speaking and blogging,
although the blogging seems to have taken a vacation lately .
One of the side effect...
runtime
Clean up some .NET Clutter
As some of you know, I do a lot of public speaking and blogging,
although the blogging seems to have taken a vacation lately .
One of the side effect...
vb
Clean up some .NET Clutter
As some of you know, I do a lot of public speaking and blogging,
although the blogging seems to have taken a vacation lately .
One of the side effect...
visualbasic
Clean up some .NET Clutter
As some of you know, I do a lot of public speaking and blogging,
although the blogging seems to have taken a vacation lately .
One of the side effect...
Mock
How to simplify your C# unit testing with a mocking framework
It’s time to take your unit testing to the next level. You’ve implemented either NUnit, or xUnit, or MSTest in your projects. You’ve gotten your code covera...
SQL Server
Encryption Is Now Required for SQL Server Connection Strings
While I was presenting my workshop Building and Deploying a New Cloud App from Scratch at DEVIntersections yesterday the connection to the database kept fai...
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code File List Sort Order
This morning I was working on a blog post on getting started with Developer Containers. For this, I opened up Visual Studio Code and JetBrains Rider. Once I...
VSCode
Visual Studio Code File List Sort Order
This morning I was working on a blog post on getting started with Developer Containers. For this, I opened up Visual Studio Code and JetBrains Rider. Once I...
AI
LinkedIn has an AI Assisted Editor for Post
With me on the hunt for a new job, at the time of this post being authored, I have been pretty active on LinkedIn. The last day or so, I have been experiment...
Generative AI
LinkedIn has an AI Assisted Editor for Post
With me on the hunt for a new job, at the time of this post being authored, I have been pretty active on LinkedIn. The last day or so, I have been experiment...
API
Working with the LinkedIn API with C#
The last day few days, I have been experimenting with the LinkedIn API to send my blog posts, YouTube videos, and community updates automatically to my Linke...
GitHub Actions
Migrate to GitHub Actions from Pages Legacy Worker
GitHub Pages has deprecated the legacy worker and will be removed by the end of June 2024. The legacy worker was used to build and deploy Jekyll sites on Git...
digicert
Extended Validation (EV) Code Signing Certificates with Azure Key Vault and digicert
In a previous post, I showed you how to Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Vault. In this post, I will show you how to create an Extended Validati...
Terminal
Power Prompt with Windows Terminal and Oh My Posh
In this post, I’ll show you how you can “power-up” your PowerShell shell prompt terminal window with Windows Terminal, PowerShell Core, and Oh-My-Posh to imp...
PowerShell
Power Prompt with Windows Terminal and Oh My Posh
In this post, I’ll show you how you can “power-up” your PowerShell shell prompt terminal window with Windows Terminal, PowerShell Core, and Oh-My-Posh to imp...
oh-my-posh
Power Prompt with Windows Terminal and Oh My Posh
In this post, I’ll show you how you can “power-up” your PowerShell shell prompt terminal window with Windows Terminal, PowerShell Core, and Oh-My-Posh to imp...