Mar 15

M1 Macs and the SSD issue (March 2022)

Remember SSD SwapGate ? — Turns out, the hysteria around it was exaggerated, Apple addressed the issue in a later update to Big Sur. For reference, I’ve been using this MacBook Air M1 for over a year now, I’ve basically transferred all of my Development workflow onto it and these are my stats:

M 1 Chip

2 min read

Nov 29, 2021

With .NET 6, comes Prise 6 🎉

We’re excited to announce that Prise has been successfully ported to .NET 6, thanks to https://github.com/tartanlegrand for the Pull Request! In this version, the framework has been upgraded to net6.0, at this point, we’re not planning to add any additional features to Prise. We are planning to release an update…

Dotnet

2 min read

Nov 11, 2021

.Net Development on the M1 Mac

I switched to a MacBook about 2 years ago, I’m a Software Engineer in .NET and Angular. Since .NET (Core) is cross-platform, I decided to switch things up a bit, and once Apple introduced their new in-house ARM-based silicon, I was eager to try it out. This is how I…

Dotnet

7 min read

Published in Geek Culture

·May 4, 2021

Apple M1 + VS Code: ARM Template and Template Language Service

Azure Bicep is increasing popularity presently, we started adopting this new DSL for Azure ARM some months ago and we have now completely switched over to using Bicep in favour of ARM-based templates. After installing the Azure ARM and Bicep extensions on an M1 Mac you might see the following…

Apple M 1 Chip

3 min read

Apple M1 + VS Code: ARM Template and Template Language Service

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·Apr 7, 2021

Docker Express: Running a Local SQL Server on Your M1 Mac

About 2 years ago, I wrote on how to run SQL Express in a Docker container using the Microsoft SQL Server for Linux Docker image. Now, I find myself in need for the same on my M1 Mac. The original SQL Server for Linux image has not yet been ported…

Docker

3 min read

Published in Geek Culture

·Apr 2, 2021

Quickly Convert a Console App Into a Single-Point Web App in C#

I found myself in need of quickly converting my C# Console application into a Web application, primarily, I was asked to expose our Console app’s logic through an API with very little time to manage it. This article will cover on how I eventually exposed our Console app on port…

C Sharp Programming

4 min read

Quickly Convert a Console App Into a Single-Point Web App in C#

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·Mar 30, 2021

C#: Interfaces to Functions, With FuncR

I find myself often in need of extracting a certain method into an entirely new service. This new service now has the sole purpose of housing that method. This is mostly the case when working with code that communicates with infrastructure (logging, files, network, API’s). This code is mostly static…

C Sharp Programming

3 min read

Jan 19, 2021

Installing .NET 6 on your M1 Mac (manually)

In this short article, I’ll show you how to uninstall any previous dotnet versions on your M1 Mac and install the latest .NET 6.0.200 Preview release to date. Microsoft released the official ARM64 macOS installer, please refer to this installer to install the .NET 6 Preview 3. You can continue…

Apple M 1 Chip

4 min read

Installing .NET 6 (alpha) on your M1 Mac

Jan 19, 2021

Debugging .NET 5 apps on your M1 Mac

In this short article, I’ll show you how to install .NET 5 on your M1 Mac and demonstrate how to debug your apps using VS Code and VS For Mac. With macOS Big Sur 11.2 Beta 2, Apple fixed some of the bugs related to debugging your .NET 5 apps…

Mac

2 min read

Nov 2, 2020

🎉 Prise 2.0 is here 🎉

Over the past year, I’ve been working on maturing Prise. I can proudly say that the day has come to announce version 2.0 of Prise, A .NET Plugin Framework. This time around, I’ve heard the community loud and clear 📢, Prise comes with the following new features: More tests! Support for testing plugins using the Prise.Testing package Rename of the PluginBridge to ReverseProxy Support for loading plugins from NuGet Packages!

Net Core

1 min read

🎉 Prise 2.0 is here 🎉

Over the past year, I’ve been working on maturing Prise. I can proudly say that the day has come to announce version 2.0 of Prise, A .NET Plugin Framework.

This time around, I’ve heard the community loud and clear 📢, Prise comes with the following new features:

More tests!
Support for testing plugins using the Prise.Testing package
Rename of the PluginBridge to ReverseProxy
Support for loading plugins from NuGet Packages!
More examples!
A fresh new documentation page: https://merken.github.io/Prise/

Whilst still working on supporting .NET 5, Prise can presently be used in any .NET Core 2.1, 3.1 or NET 5 preview project.

M1 Macs and the SSD issue (March 2022)

With .NET 6, comes Prise 6 🎉

.Net Development on the M1 Mac

Apple M1 + VS Code: ARM Template and Template Language Service

Docker Express: Running a Local SQL Server on Your M1 Mac

Quickly Convert a Console App Into a Single-Point Web App in C#

C#: Interfaces to Functions, With FuncR

Installing .NET 6 on your M1 Mac (manually)

Debugging .NET 5 apps on your M1 Mac

🎉 Prise 2.0 is here 🎉

🎉 Prise 2.0 is here 🎉

Maarten Merken