Snapshot Testing with Verify
This post is part of two awesome advent calendar initiatives - the .NET Advent Calendar 2021, and the C# Advent Calendar 2021. Check out both links fo...
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Comparing .NET Mocking Libraries
There are quite a few different mocking libraries in .NET. Moq and NSubstitute seem to be by far the main ones I hear that developers use. I've used b...
Read moreCleaner tests with XUnit's IAsyncLifetime and expression-bodied members
When writing tests, sometimes it can be tempting to dump a bunch of asserts into the same test to avoid duplication across multiple tests... public cl...
Read moreWriting More Succinct C#
When looking at a lot of C# code nowadays, I find myself thinking "wow, that code could be made SO MUCH SMALLER!". C# is a very flexible lan...
Read moreNew Wyam-based .NET Oxford website
I recently wrote a blog post saying that I've decided to stop all the in-depth write-ups for each and every .NET Oxford meetup that we have. This was ...
Read moreKubernetes and .NET running on a Raspberry Pi Cluster
I'm starting writing this blog post on the train ride home from yet another amazing DDD event! This variant being DDD South West in Bristol! For those...
Read more.NET Oxford Feb Meetup: Inside the CLR with Chris Bacon
For this month's .NET Oxford, we were joined by Chris Bacon from Google for a fascinating talk about how to build a .NET runtime in C! Chris's talk wa...
Read more.NET Oxford Survey Results
Earlier this month we sent out survey for .NET Oxford to get a little bit of feedback. Are our members happy? Or should we be banned from ever gracing...
Read more.NET Oxford January Meetup: NGINX with Ian Cooper
This month was our first .NET Oxford of 2019, and we were very pleased to welcome back Ian Cooper, who was this time talking about NGINX! For more det...
Read moreLINQPad Tips and Tricks - Part 3
This is the 3rd blog post in my LINQPad Tips and Tricks series. The first two posts can be found below. If you haven't read them already, I'd highly r...
Read more.NET Oxford December Meetup: Lightning Talks
This month was our last .NET Oxford of 2018, and this time we had another lightning talk event! I always really enjoy these lightning talk events, as ...
Read more.NET Oxford November Meetup: Performance in the Javascript Era
This month at .NET Oxford, we had Benjamin Howarth joining us to talk about Performance in the Javascript Era! Yes, I know - we're a ".NET" ...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup: Jon Skeet: C#8, The Story So Far
This month, we had our biggest meetup yet, as we welcomed Jon Skeet himself to .NET Oxford to tell us about some of the upcoming C#8 features. And as ...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup XVIII: Bots, Chimps, and Critical Pilot Making
For this month's .NET Oxford meetup we had two talks - one from .NET Oxford co-founder Matt Nield, speaking about Bots; and the other from Clifford Ag...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup XVII: CosmosDB
Our .NET Oxford meetup this month was all about Microsoft's globally-distributed database, Cosmos DB - and we were very pleased to welcome James Broom...
Read moreSwitching to Multi-Stage Dockerfiles
I'm now using Docker for quite a few projects, but up until now, my build workflow had tended to involve building the application outside of Docker. T...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup XVI: Getting Entangled in Q#
Last week was our July .NET Oxford meetup, and this time it was all about Quantum computing and Microsoft's new Q# programming language! Joining us th...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup XV: Lightning Talks
Earlier this week we had our 15th .NET Oxford meetup. This time it was another lightning talk event, making it our 3rd one to date. For normal events,...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup XIV: Entity Framework Core
Last week, we had our May meetup with guest speaker Jon P Smith, telling us all about Entity Framework Core! And Jon did not only one, but two EF pack...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup XIII: Azure Security and Infosec Fails
Last week we had our 13th .NET Oxford, with a Security double-bill from Robin Minto talking about lessons learnt from past infosec failures, and Frans...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup XII: 12 Factor Apps
Last week we had our 12th .NET Oxford, and this time, our guest speaker was Ian Cooper - Lead Application Architect at Huddle, owner of the open-sourc...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup XI: A Piece of Cake
For our February .NET Oxford meetup, we definitely had a bit of a food theme going on! With Gary Ewan Park talking about the Cake build system; our pr...
Read moreVisiting .NET South East: Codeathon and Meetup with Richard Campbell!
Last week, I finally managed to get down to visit fellow .NET User Group .NET South East in Brighton. I'd chatted with organiser Steve Gordon quite a ...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup X: Deep Diving into Razor and Async
Last week, was our first .NET Oxford of 2018, which now marks our second year! Our first one being January last year, meaning that we've now had over ...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup IX: ELK, Docker, and Kubernetes
On Tuesday, it was our last .NET Oxford of the year! And given that our first ever meetup was in January, this now marks our first whole year! We're u...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup VIII: Lightning Does Strike Twice!
After the success of our last lightning talk event in July - we decided that it was about time for another one - proving that lightning most certainly...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup VII: Serverless in Azure
It feels like lately you can't turn around without hearing the term 'serverless'. It seems to have become the latest architectural buzzword. So we wer...
Read moreA piece of Cake!
This is something that's been on my "to blog about" list for quite a while - so I thought it was about time! I've been using the Cake Build ...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup VI: Reactive Bots!
Reactive Bots? What's that all about? Well the title for this month's .NET Oxford actually refers to two different talks ... 'The fuss about Bots?' wi...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup V: Rider - Taking ReSharper out of Process!
This week we had our 5th .NET Oxford, and this time we had Matt Ellis from Jetbrains talking about their new cross platform .NET IDE - Rider! Except, ...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup IV: Lightning Talks!
On Tuesday it was our fourth .NET Oxford, and this time we had a slightly different format ... In order to give more people the opportunity to get up ...
Read moreELK Stack with .NET and Docker
I was recently investigating issues in some scheduling and dispatching code, which was actually quite difficult to visualize what was happening over t...
Read moreLINQPad Tips and Tricks - Part 2
This is my second LINQPad Tips and Tricks post. If you haven't read my first post, I'd definitely recommended reading that one first, and then coming ...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup III: Xamarin!
On Tuesday evening we had our third .NET Oxford, and even despite the heat it was yet another great event! Whilst not quite our usual turnout due to t...
Read moreMindful Parallelism in Async/Await
At our most recent .NET Oxford event, we had Frans Lytzen, founder and CTO of New Orbit talking about Async/Await in .NET. Rather than just your typic...
Read more.NET Oxford - Machine Learning with a Sprinkle of Async!
Once again, the .NET community in Oxford has amazed us with how awesome they are, with another almost full-house at our second meetup last week! Again...
Read moreOur First .NET Oxford Meetup!!
It was our very first .NET Oxford event on Tuesday night - and wow, what an incredible turnout! Before the event, we were amazed by how many people RS...
Read moreLINQPad Tips and Tricks
(Also see LINQPad Tips and Tricks - Part 2, and Part 3) Whilst pretty much all .NET developers have heard of LINQPad - from my experience, a much smal...
Read moreWelcome to .NET Oxford!!
Well, what a great time to be a .NET developer! With all the changes that have been happening over the last year or so - with the new cross platform ....
Read morePlaying with a Dockerised ASP.NET Core
Whilst I've used Docker in the past, it has only really been for development and prototyping - mainly to host 3rd party software - eg. MongoDB, Neo4j,...
Read moreAll about Inversion of Control Containers!
Following on from my previous post about dependency injection, the topic of IoC containers feels like a nice continuation. I wanted to keep the two po...
Read moreWriting Testable Code - It's all about dependencies
Following on from my post about why you should write automated tests, I wanted to talk about how to write code that is testable. Unfortunately, unless...
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