Reading Notes #410

Every Monday, I share my reading notes. Those are the articles, blog posts, podcast episodes, and books that catch my interest during the week and that I found interesting. It's a mix of the actuality and what I consumed.

Programming

• 6 Blazor component libraries to speed up your development (Jon Hilton) - Nice list of libraries some are free other not, depending on your needs and requirements.

• Cookies and Consent in ASP .NET Core 3.1 (Shahed C) - This post explains how to implement cookie consent as a professional.

• EF Core Tips: Make sure to call Update when it is needed! (Arthur Vickers) - Good to know.

• Hide Your Secrets in VS Code with Cloak (John Papa) - What a fantastic extension! Areally think it will become a must for anyone doing presentations...

• User Registration with ASP.NET Core Identity - Code Maze (Marinko Spasojevic) - A nice tutorial that explains how to build from scratch our own login (registration).

Databases

• Using ASP.NET Core 3.0 Identity With MySQL (S.Ravi Kumar) - A simple tutorial that provides a step by step explanation to configure or MySql

Podcast

• Myself: It's not weird at all (Hanselminutes - Fresh Talk and Tech for Developers) - I nice episode much longer than the usual, but the guest is also special... It's Scott. During a Live Stream on Twitch it the Live Coders... People suggest making a podcast episode of the interview... I couldn't agree more.

• The Power of Humor in Tech with Chloe Condon (Screaming in the Cloud) - Very refreshing episode with the awesome and very colorful Chloe. Nice show that goes to fast. Very interesting discussion about the non-traditional way to technical work, and its success.

• Gather Your Community or Get Left Behind—Mighty Networks and More (The Smart Passive Income Online Business ) - Nice episode that talks about what comes after blogging... The alternative to Facebook community and different opportunities to answer our graving of community and feeling of appurtenance.

Create and Deploy .NET Core WebApp to Azure from Linux

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The other day, I was glued to my PC, and I had spare time (yah, I know very unusual). Since .Net Core 1.0 was just released few days before, I decide to give it a try. To add an extra layer of fun in the mix, I decided to do it from my Ubuntu VM. In less than 15 minutes, everything was done! I was so impressed I knew I needed to talk about it. That's exactly what this post is about.

The preparation

Before we get started, it's important to know which version of Ubuntu you are using, because some commands will be slightly different. To know the version you are running you simply need to click the gear in the top right of the desktop screen and select About this Computer. In my case, since I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, I will be using command related to this version. If you are using a different version, please refer to .NET Core documentation.



Now we need to install .Net Core. Nothing more easy. Open a Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and type those three commands:

# Setup the apt-get feed adding dotnet as repo
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://apt-mo.trafficmanager.net/repos/dotnet/ trusty main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dotnetdev.list'
apt-key adv --keyserver apt-mo.trafficmanager.net --recv-keys 417A0893

# Get the latest packages
apt-get update

# Install .NET Core SDK
sudo apt-get install dotnet-dev-1.0.0-preview2-003121

Once it's all done you can type dotnet --info and you should see something like that.

Create the Local WebApp

From the same Terminal we will create an empty folder for our solution and move into it. Execute these commands.

mkdir demodotnetweb
cd demodotnetweb

We now want to create our new web project. This is done by the command dotnet new, but we need to specify the type otherwise it will create a console application.

dotnet new -t web

Now to download all the references (nuget packages) of our project required, execute the following command:

dotnet restore

Base on the speed of your Internet connection and how many dependencies are required, this can take from few seconds to more than one minute.
To test if our solution works locally type the command:

dotnet run

That will compile our solution and start an AspNetCore Internal hosting. Launch a web browser and go to http://localhost:5000 to see the App in action.

Deploy to Azure

To deploy our new project to the cloud, we will use the continuous deployment capability of Azure. First, navigate to portal.azure.com and create a Web App.



Once the the application is created, you should see the This web app as been created message when you navigate to the [nameofWebApp].azurewebsites.net



It's now time to add a local Git repository. In the WebApp Settings select Deployment source. Click on the Configure Required Settings, then select the Local Git Repository option.



After setting the user credential for the repository, we can get the URL from the Essential section.



Back to our Ubuntu Terminal, we will have to execute these commands:

# create a git repository
git init
# commit all files
git commit -m "Init"

# Add the remote repository
git remote add azure https://username@demowebcore.scm.azurewebsites.net:443/demowebcore.git

# Push the code to the remote
git push azure master

After a minute or so you should have your WebApp online!




Voila! That was fun!.

Reading Notes #239

Cloud

• Application Map: Filter and pin to a dashboard (Soubhagya Dash) - Aaah! Great, it's time to update our Azure Portal Dashboard, really cool.
  
• Deploying Azure Marketplace VMs via ARM Templates (Alexandre Brisebois) - Nice piece of code to be ready to deploy.
  
• Public preview of the Logic Apps Enteprise Integration Pack (Jon Fancey) - Important release this week from Logic App team they announced many BizTalk functionalities that will now be available in LogicApp and also a great VisualStudio Addon that I'm really looking forward to try.
  
• Use the power and simplicity of containers to tame your IT (James Staten) - Nice post that shares some reason about why containers are so nice.

Programming

• .NET Core 1.0 is now released! (Scott Hanselman) - Wow. Really impress by that new blend... Dotnet core is looking awesome.
  
• VIDEO: How to run Linux and Bash on (Scott Hanselman) - It's really cool, but also very useful ... O scripts will work on Linux and Windows environment...
  
• Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 Available Now (Eric Battalio) - Yep it's time to download and enjoy some great features.
  
• Visual Studio Code vs WebStorm (Radoslaw Rozanski) - Interesting post that compares the new kid in the block with an "older" IDE.
  
• Visual Studio Update 3 - Wahoo! Tons of new awesome features are included in this update.
  
• Why I Built Cycligent Git Tool (Carolyn Sullivan) - Git is a fantastic tool. Great UIs are difficult... Cytriogen is definitely something to look.

Miscellaneous

• How I prepared for the NDC keynote (and other speaker tips) (Troy Hunt) - Interesting post that shows and explains all the great work done to prepare a talk like a key note.
  
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update Available August 2 (Yusuf Mehdi) - Cool, summer is comings and with it the anniversary edition... Learn more about what will be included in this free upgrade for all the Windows 10 users.

Reading Notes #233

Cloud

• Map storage scenarios to services in Microsoft’s cloud (Joe Davies) - Cool gigantic pdf that contain all the information about cloud storage.
  
• How to turn cloud economics to your advantage (James Staten) - Nice post that asked important questions. Did you ask to yourself these?
  
• Announcing collaboration with the Jenkins project (Corey Sanders) - Great news about Jenkins. Now with the Microsoft's teams involved, we can expect only the best.
  
• Detecting threats with Azure Security Center (Tomer Teller) - Interesting post that explains fundamental difference between servers and individual attack and introduces briefly Azure security center.
  
• Troubleshooting Azure Stream Analytics jobs with SELECT INTO (Ken Wang - MSFT) - Fantastic debug session that explains how, with streamanalitics we can debug a query.
  
• HowTo: Purge an Azure CDN endpoint using Azure PowerShell v1.x (Stéphane Lapointe) - Useful piece of script that will save us time.

Programming

• Upgrading from ASPNET Core RC1 to RC2 Guide (Steve Smith) - Nice tutorial that covers all pieces of the puzzle.

Miscellaneous

• Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people - Wow... And we thought using a strong password was safe enough. Great text.