George Kosmidis

Secrets management for ASP.NET Core and Azure DevOps

In this post we will discover how to handle appsettings.json secrets (like API keys, passwords etc.) in a .NET app and eventually how to deploy a protected app and let Azure DevOps handle the secret replacement.

Modified 5 months and 1 week ago

My next events!

Create and publish a Blazor Component as Nuget Package

Bernhard-Nocht-Straße 97, D-20359, Hamburg

Web Developer Conference '22

Using Azure DevOps to build and deploy a Docker image to Azure

Nürnberg Convention Center NCC Ost

Developer Week '22

MongoDB Shell or Compass query with a GUID

Just a small one for today. Have you ever tried to query MongoDB with a GUID? Well I did and it can be confusing!

Modified 5 months and 1 week ago

C# 10 – What’s new!

C# 10 is here with new and exciting feature with an opt-in approach. In this guide we will go through some of the most important changes that will make your code cleaner, smaller, faster and will hopefully convince you to upgrade now!

Modified 5 months and 2 weeks ago

.NET 6, A guide for the high impact Breaking Changes

.NET 6 is the first Long-Term-Support (LTS) version since the “one .NET to rule them all” era, which means it’s plan as future-proof. It includes a tone of improvements and changes that are planned to live long, thing that brought with it a few high impact Breaking Changes. Although there are lower impact braking changes too, this guide will help you identify if any of the important ones really affect you, and provide a suggestion at the same time.

Published 1 year ago

Create and use your first component in Blazor!

Blazor, the new client-side UI framework from the ASP.NET team, is definitely making a splash among the developers that were trying to avoid the JavaScript coding experience (or even better the debugging JavaScript experience!).

Published 1 year ago

Migrating to .NET 5 – A few clicks away!

Before you actually start reading this article, I have to be honest with you: Unless your app is a Blazor app, you don’t need to read this; all you need is to download .NET 5, change the target framework in your project properties and that’s it…! Then again, if you need the download links or want to check the process I followed, feel free!

Published 2 years ago

Things you should know about .NET 5

I know many of you are waiting for an LTS to jump in and upgrade your systems, but I think this time things are a bit different! First of all, the next LTS will be .NET 6 which is planned for November 2021, and secondly .NET 5 is already published two months ago as RC1. Actually, two release candidates of .NET 5 were published and tested by many before the actual release:

Published 2 years ago