Robert Green - Adventures in DeveloperLand https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/robertgreen/feed.xml Robert Green is a Sr Program Manager Evangelism for Visual Studio and .NET. Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:14:13 GMT en-US hourly 1 Visual Studio Toolbox: UX Design and Code Generation for Angular Apps https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/robertgreen/visual-studio-toolbox-ux-design-and-code-generation-for-angular-apps Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:14:13 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/robertgreen/?p=3705 this episode, I am joined by Jason Beres of Infragistics, who walks us through indigo.design, a platform for the visual design, UX prototyping and code generation of Angular apps. He shows how you can create designs in Sketch using a variety of pre-built UI components and patterns, share them with others on any device and then generate your app's code.

]]> Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Bots Part 2 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/robertgreen/visual-studio-toolbox-building-bots-part-2 Wed, 19 Dec 2018 18:06:46 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/robertgreen/?p=3685 This is the second of a two part series where Sam Basu shows us how to build bots. In this episode, Sam gives the bots he built in Part 1 a modern UI by using Telerik Conversational UI user controls.

]]> Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Bots Part 1 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/robertgreen/visual-studio-toolbox-building-bots-part-1 Thu, 13 Dec 2018 16:35:18 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/robertgreen/?p=3665 This is the first of a two part series where Sam Basu shows us how to build bots. What are the tools we use and how do they work? Once you understand that, you can think about how you can use them in ways that help your customers.

]]> Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Web APIs Part 3 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/robertgreen/visual-studio-toolbox-building-web-apis-part-3 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:22:24 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/robertgreen/?p=3635 Chris Woodruff who shows how to build ASP.NET Core Web APIs. In this episode, Chris goes deep into what developers should know when building real-world APIs. This episode expands on the first episode to discuss what best practices developers should think about before, during and after their API project. We look at how and why you should decouple your API from the domain and data logic in your solutions and why we should not use our Entity Framework Core entity models at the API endpoints. Resources Episodes:

]]> Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Web APIs Part 2 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/robertgreen/visual-studio-toolbox-building-web-apis-part-2 Wed, 05 Dec 2018 18:19:13 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/robertgreen/?p=3625 Chris Woodruff who shows how to build ASP.NET Core Web APIs. In this episode, Chris discusses what to do after building your APIs. He shows Integration Testing, a new testing framework from the ASP.NET Core team that will allow you and your team to test your APIs externally. Integration Testing uses our knowledge of unit testing but takes it to the next level. Resources Episodes:

]]> Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Web APIs Part 1 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/robertgreen/visual-studio-toolbox-building-web-apis-part-1 Wed, 28 Nov 2018 01:32:57 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/robertgreen/?p=3595 Chris Woodruff who shows how to build ASP.NET Core Web APIs. In this episode, Chris shows how to kick off your first project and what ASP.NET Core 2.1 offers that makes our developer lives better! He looks at Dependency Injection, Entity Framework Core and other .NET Core goodies to make your APIs the best for all platforms. Resources

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]]> Visual Studio Toolbox: Unit Testing: Existing Code https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/robertgreen/visual-studio-toolbox-unit-testing-existing-code Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:19:50 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/robertgreen/?p=3575 Phil Japikse to discuss unit testing. This series expands on the 2017 Unit Testing episode. In this final episode, we tie it all together. How do you add Unit Testing into existing code? When should you, as well as when should you not? Links: Episodes in this series:

]]> Visual Studio Toolbox: Unit Testing: Moq Framework https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/robertgreen/visual-studio-toolbox-unit-testing-moq-framework Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:17:57 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/robertgreen/?p=3545 Phil Japikse to discuss unit testing. This series expands on the 2017 Unit Testing episode. In this episode, we cover the Moq framework. Mocking provides the ability to simulate an object. For example, you can test a call to a database without having to actually talk to it. The Moq framework is an open source unit testing framework that works very well with .NET code and Phil shows us how to use it. Links: Episodes in this series:

]]> Visual Studio Toolbox: A History of .NET https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/robertgreen/visual-studio-toolbox-a-history-of-net Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:30:33 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/robertgreen/?p=3505 this episode, I am joined by Richard Campbell, co-host of .NET Rocks. We spend orr time together reviewing the history of .NET, the subject of a book Richard is working on. We start with why .NET was created and end with .NET Core and we cover lots of milestones in between. Just an informal chat between two guys who have been there for it all.

]]> Visual Studio Toolbox: Blazor Part 2 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/robertgreen/visual-studio-toolbox-blazor-part-2 Thu, 08 Nov 2018 15:35:30 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/robertgreen/?p=3485 This is the second of a two part episode recorded in August. Special guest hosts Sam Basu and Ed Charbeneau take us on a tour of Blazor, an experimental .NET web framework using C# and HTML that runs in the browser using a relatively new standardized web technology called WebAssembly. Sam and Ed show how easy it is to get started building apps with Blazor. Part 1 is here.

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