Geek Learning

Ghost Theme Development Using Visual Studio Code Remote Development With Containers

Earlier, I've introduced Visual Studio Remote Developmen [https://geeklearning.io/introduction-to-visual-studio-code-remote-development/]t and you might be wondering what a practical use case would be. In this post, I'll try to guide you through

vscode

Introduction to Visual Studio Code Remote Development

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft released an extension for Visual Studio Code [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.vscode-remote-extensionpack] which enables Remote development. Remote development, what's that? Is it to develop

React

React with Typescript in 2019

I recently change the main framework I work with from Angular to React. And to be honest I quite enjoy React and I can now understand the popularity of the framework. However there's

Continuous delivery for your Ghost Theme

I've had so many drafts and blog post ideas about ghost. However, they never went through. Why? Most of it was related to me self hosting it and I was wondering if the

ionic4

How to create a Landing Page with a video background in Ionic 4

We've all seen it at least once. You open an app for the first time and you see a beautiful landing page with a catchy phrase, the login button in the center and

tutorial

How to create a reusable Web Component with Stencil and use it in your Ionic 4 application with Angular

Ionic 4 is finally here and ready for production. And I'm sure you've all heard about their heavy use of reusable Web Components to make Ionic framework agnostic (and many other reasons). That's

ionic

How to run your Ionic app on a specific iOS simulator using the CLI

Have you ever wondered how to launch a specific iOS simulator directly using the ionic cli instead of launching XCode and choosing the simulator from the list? I have... many times... But I

tools

Live debug your Cordova/Ionic application with Visual Studio Code

In this article, I will show you how to setup your development environment using VS Code to be able to debug correctly your Ionic app running on iOS or Android. This means: * Live

What the hell!? I can't deploy my dacpac to Azure SQL!

When dealing with databases in the cloud, you have various choices of strategy to update its schema and run data migrations. Most of people will pick some ORM migration tooling. However if the

security

Hardening the security of your Asp.Net Core apps

I recently had to go through a third party penetration testing process. This is something you will eventually have to do as part of you development lifecycle if you have a customer who

aspnetcore

Create Your Own Authorization Requirements In ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core provides a clean and simple model to express the application authorization rules in code: the Policy-based authorization model. This one is based on the following object model structure: * Requirement: provides

monitoring

Application Insights extensibility : tricks worth knowing #2

In my previous post [https://geeklearning.io/application-insights-extensibility-tricks-worth-knowing-1/] about Application insights, I showed how to drop irrelevant dependency telemetry events. In this post we will do quite the opposite. We will enrich existing

monitoring

Application Insights extensibility : tricks worth knowing #1

Application Insights [https://azure.microsoft.com/fr-fr/services/application-insights/] is a great web application monitoring and analytics tool. If you are not familiar with it, you should definitely have a look. You can

azure

Monitor your Angular app with Application Insights

You've built an amazing product or app. Now it's live time but how do you support an application in production? On part of the answer to that question is with a good monitoring

aspnetcore

How To Migrate Your Authentication Middleware To ASP.NET Core 2.0?

Did you give ASP.NET Core 2.0 a try? If no, you should :) because there are a lot of cool stuff there [https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2017/08/14/announcing-asp-net-core-2-0/

ionic

Monitor Your Ionic Application With Microsoft Application Insights

> Application Insights [https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/application-insights/] tells you about your app's performance and usage. You can get data about how many users you have, which pages are most popular, how

Angular AOT / Webpack memory trick

If you're dealing with a growing javascript app, you might reach that point where your build scripts will run out of memory. Wait what? I have 16 GB on my machine, how can

devops

How To Debug A .NET Core Nuget Package?

> Nuget is a package manager for .NET. It provides tools to create and reference packages. The Nuget official packages repository is nuget.org [https://www.nuget.org]. Each Nuget package contains .NET binaries

ionic

Our project template to build awesome Ionic apps using Webpack and Typescript

We've been working on a custom build workflow using Webpack to compile our Ionic apps written in Typescript. After one year using and tweaking it, we decided to release it as a Yeoman

aspnetcore

Testavior: A Happy Solution To Test Your ASP.NET Core Applications

I talked several times about my vision of testing ASP.NET Core applications on this blog. The story has began here: A Different Approach To Test Your ASP.NET Core Application [https://geeklearning.

devops

Generate Your Icons And Splashcreens Or Any Scaled Assets

In this article you'll learn on of our trained monkey trick to handle a boring task such as generating Icons, Splashscreens or any kind of assets you must produce in various sizes. But

aspnetcore

ASP.NET Core Application Testing With SpecFlow

I started a series a few weeks ago about testing ASP.NET Core applications using a different approach: the Behavior Approach. I am very convinced of this method and very excited about presenting

aspnet

How To Deal With Identity When Testing An ASP.NET Core Application

User identity is a collection of security information associated to an authenticated user. It is used to implement authorization mechanisms with the aim of protecting application resources from unauthorized accesses. In ASP.NET

Our story about delivering open source software.

It's been a few months since we launched our first Visual Studio Team Services Extensions. We are thrilled to see you already love them with a bit more than 1 thousand downloads and

aspnet

ASP.NET Core MVC Testing And The Synchronizer Token Pattern

Have you ever try to call directly your ASP.NET MVC Post actions from your code (from a test method for instance)? If yes, according to your action configuration, you may had to