Solving Developer Challenges with Azure, .NET, and AI
Sometimes when we develop unit tests it’s convenient to check if the tested code wrote something to the log. Is it a good practice to assert that some particular message appeared in the logs? I think there are pros and cons. On the pros side, we can make general assertions like “no errors were written … Read more
I have recently observed that my Visual Studio Code synchronization no longer seemed to work. The configuration which I carefully changed at home was still not synced on my workplace machine. If you have a similar problem and found this blogpost in Google, read on 🙂 Diagnosing it turned out to be easy once you … Read more
This is a short note showing my fix to an error I encountered when migrating application from .NET Framework to the most recent (at the moment) .NET 6. I’m just pasting the rough code example of how this can be migrated, because: Custom console logger using old Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Console 2.1.1 Equivalent custom console logger using newer Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Console 6.0.0 … Read more
A typical reference to a NuGet package in your project might look like In the above example, we can see that we reference a package Newtonsoft.Json in a specific version, 11.0.1. We don’t specify any constraints for a person or a tool that would like to update the version in reference. Now, let’s take a … Read more
Which of the following lines, in your opinion, is a better choice for logging a trace to Azure App Insights? I must admit that for a long time, I used the string interpolation (option A). It is concise, has no characters that would be redundant, and does the job. But it turns out, that the … Read more
I like to maintain a zero-warning policy in a project. In the case of false-alarm warnings, I think it’s better to suppress them than to leave them active. When we suppress a warning, it will not draw our attention every time we look at logs. So, how can we suppress a warning like the example … Read more
New releases of .NET often come with features that I really like to use in my daily developer work. Therefore, I like to keep projects I work on at the most recent stable version of .NET. Soon we’ll officially have stable versions .NET 6, released along with C# 10 and Visual Studio 2022. I like … Read more
Update: the code example in this article uses an API that is now deprecated. It will only be useful if you are stuck using old NuGet library to query Application Insights. For new code, you should use https://www.nuget.org/packages/Azure.Monitor.Query/ instead. This article does not provide code example on how to use that newer API. Application Insights … Read more