Logging with output in Unit Tests in .Net Core 2.0
If you use logging in your application code (and you should) then it would be nice if all that logging info appeared in your unit tests. If you use dotnet core and the default Microsoft.…
Keeping Visual Studio 2017 build tools up to date
If you have to maintain a farm of build servers it can be a pain to keep them updated will the latest versions of all the tools needed, and if you have a few servers…
Stubbing your way to automated end to end testing in an API first world
Building high quality end to end acceptance tests suites is hard, and creating API stubs (aka mock servers) can be surprisingly time consuming. WireMock.net can help speed this up. E2E testing is hard End…
How to find latest version of MsBuild in powershell
Build scripts for .net are always a bit painful, and Microsoft has not made it easy over the years as every release they change the paths. For 2017 it is even worse and it depends…
Microsoft.WebApplication.targets was not found (again)
Every time Microsoft releases some build tooling it feels like they forget lots of us use it to build websites. And we do this on build servers that do not have Visual Studio installed using…