Aspire from Microsoft is pretty tantalizing for local development, however all the instructions for how to add a dotnet web app to your new dotnet aspire AppHost tell you to add a direct reference to …

My personal experience of coding with AI has not yet lived up to the promises and hype I am seeing online. While the initial contact with LLM code generation was certainly impressive, and I would not …

There has been a bout of "commercialization" of nuget packages in the dotnet world lately. There are now so many going that way I struggle to remember what's useable and what isn't. I used to be able …

How and why I created sln-items-sync - a dotnet tool to generate SolutionItems from filesystem folders. If you want to skip the backstory head over: https://github.com/timabell/sln-items-sync 15 year…

Having lived in the world of technology for two to three decades now, I've come to a fundamental truth: text formats are the ultimate format. "text formats are the ultimate format" ~ Me, just now It…

Update - transitive pinning It seems microsoft have produced a solution to this problem, along with the long awaited solution-level package management. Read all about it here: https://devblogs.microso…

Options Built-in EF Core migrations FluentMigrator DbUp RedGate Deploy RedGate SQL Change Automation Flyway by RedGate SqlHawk (I wrote this years ago, forked from the excellent SchemaSpy) ? hit me u…