.Net Conf 2020 Day 2

 Summary

Here are my notes on the sessions I attended for day 2.  There were many more I did not attend since the conference ran for 24 hours.

My goal for attending these sessions is to get get a high-level overview of the topic and see which ones I want/need to do a deeper drive on.

Day 2 Sessions

1. What's new in Visual Studio 2019

  • Customization
    • Themes
      • CRTL Q
      • Manage Extensions
      • Install Themes
      • After download, Close VS
      • To install
        • Ctrl Q Themes
        • Select the one you want
    • Project Templates
      • Create an existing Project as a Template
      • Export Template Wizard
      • Access New Template
        • File new project
        • Should show in the filter, but not always
    • Exclusive Filters
      • Allows you to filter out projects from your solution based only on the projects you want
      • Check the box on the bottom of the dialog
      • Right-click on only load the projects you want
    • File Nesting
      • Configure your own nesting rules
      • Right-click on section and select file nesting at that level
      • You define a rules file
  • Productivity Tools
    • IntelliCode Team Completions
      • Not shown
    • IntelliCode Suggestions
      • AI-assisted IntelliSense
      • Suggestions based on previous edits
      • Can apply the edit to other places in the file as well
    • Web Live View
      • In preview
      • Allows you to see you see changes live

2. HTTP API development with .Net, Azure, and Open API

  • OpenAPI => Swagger
  • On by default for web API
    • startup.cs
    • David Pine Comos Repro
    • Enable XmlDocComments
      • Includes templates
      • JSON and Ymal
    • Only turn on for Development environment
    • User the Name prop
  • New F5 experience for HTTP APIs
    • Goes to the index of the Swagger page
    • Mage it easier to do a POST
  • HTTPRepl
    • This is a NuGet package => CLI tool
    • Get the Microsoft one
    • You set Repal as the browser
    • Command-line REST client
    • Pretty powerful
    • Helps with API design
  • Azure API management
    • Integrate into Power Platform
    • Publish to API Management
    • Just Export to Power Apps
      • Power App custom connector
    • Connection Services Experience
      • Connects to Open API or gRPC

3. Accelerate .Net to Azure with Github Actions

  • Github Action => Ymal powered workflow linked to GitHub
  • Triggered by webhooks, schedule, or manual
    • Called "runners"
  • Actions generate logs
  • There is a community market place for actions
  • .Net - setup-dotnet
    • specific version
    • can use private packages
    • Have to use GitHub secret
  • Where to deploy
    • App services
      • Include server-side Blazor
      • Slots
    • Functions
      • Event-driven architecture
      • Can create from VS publish
    • Static Web Apps
      • Don't need a server
      • Blazor web assembly
      • Free SSL Certs
      • Add from Azure Portal
    • Kubernetes

4. Real-Time 3D games with .Net and Unity

  • Platform to create video games, 2d, and 3d
    • Support 20+ platforms
  • Big Community
  • A full suite of tools
  • Start in Unity Hub
  • Cool platform but complex
  • Good general overview
  • Does run on Mono
  • There is an asset store
    • Starter packages
    • Sprights
    • code
  • Build server
  • Unity Reflex
  • Microsoft game stack
  • aka.ms/unity101 => best place to start
  • There are multiple games engines available
    • Some written in .Net
      • MonoGame
      • Stride
      • Wave engine

5. Introducing new and improved Azure SDK for .Net

  • aka.ms/RichterCloudApps - Youtube
  • Guidelines
    • aka.ms/azsdk/guide
    • idiomatic
      • March the language of the SDK
    • Consistent
    • Approachable
    • Diagnosable
      • Enable you to self-correct
    • Dependable
  • Clients take endpoint and credentials
  • Clients have async and normal methods
  • The pipeline used to send the request to Azure is extensible
    • Contains client id
    • Clients handle retries
      • Same client id
      • Different logging
    • You can insert your own policies
    • Child clients inherent the options from the parent
    • The pipeline is immutable and thread-safe
  • 6. Secrectless development from local to cloud

  • This was mainly focused on Tye Project and Kerbenatics
  • Azure SDK was covered
    • aka.ms/AZSDK
  • Only keep your secrets Azure Key Vault
  • New Method => ChainedTokenCredential
  • You can even chain your own credentials
  • Look at the Azure SDK Blog for more information
  • Look at the git hub project "Memealyzer"
    • Cool project that crosses boundaries
    • UI is Blazor Web Assembly
  • New tool => AzurIte Table Review

7. Azure Data Studio Notebooks

  • This is a combination of tools
    • .Net Interactive
      • Really cool
      • Run .Net
      • Run SQL
    • Azure Data Studio
    • Vs Code
      • Available with insiders edition
      • Jupyter Notebooks
        • Executable code
        • Rich markup UI
      • Jupyter Views
      • SQL Magic
  • It is not fully completed yet
  • You will be able to turn any SQL file into a notebook
  • Really nice UI with data visualization

8. Secure DevOps with Identity

  • An overview was to stop putting secrets in clear text in-app settings or hardcoded in the app
  • Completely platform-independent or fully integrated into Azure
  • Set of libraries that just work
  • Don't use the settings file to store your configuration values
  • On startup pull your config from Azure key vault
    • You have to either use CLI Azure log in or Service Principle Account
  • You can use Azure Arc to set your local machine to be auth to the key vault
  • You can use a Linux VM as a git hub runner
  • Note that the new .Net 5.0 templates are using new Identity because Identity Server 4 team is going private


9. Get your JAM on

  • Use Blazor web assembly with Azure functions to build web apps
  • Deploy with GitHub actions to Azure static web site
    • Deploys both client and API via functions
  • Blazor template
    • AArronPowell/DotNetConf2020
      • Blazer Static Web site template
  • Downside
    • Only supports 3.1 for now
    • Auth not done yet

10. Setting Up Health Checks

  • Decide 
    • What to monitor
    • How often to monitor
    • Who to tell
    • Public / Private status
  • Adding a Health Check
    • AddHealthCheck in Config in start-up
  • Add SQL Health Check
    • ASP.NetCore.HealthCheck.SQlServer Nuget 
    • There is a package for MongoDB
  • Add Health Check for Azure Storage
    • Add NuGet Package
  • You can use tags to show subsets
  • You have to register your endpoints
    • Include tag if you want a subset
  • You can connect to a service like UptimeRobot or build your own
  • Can add Authentication
Today was a long day of sessions and I faded at the end.  I was hoping to view more today, but I will have to go back and view what I missed later.




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