Author Archives: Jesse Liberty
Mads K (Microsoft) on Visual Studio and VSCode
Mads K of Microsoft talks about the targeting of Visual Studio and VSCode. Towards the end, I ask him about a few of his favorite plugins. View this podcast on YouTube
Jeff Fritz on .NET Aspire and CoPilot Agents
Jeff Fritz (Microsoft) joins me to talk about .NET Aspire, CoPilot Agents and Vibe programming. This is a show not to miss; his enthusiasm is catching and his knowledge is astonishing.
Richie Bonilla and Forage AI Email
Forage is an AI email assistant that sorts your mail into categories, provides a summary once or twice a day (your choice) and summarizes newsletters into bullet points. I talk with Richie Bonilla (CEO and co-founder)* about his startup, what … Continue reading
CoPilot Agents
Prepare to have your mind blown. Copilot Agents are powerful AI tools for Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. Used to CoPilot? — you ain’t seen nothing yet! James Montemagno and Burke Holland of Microsoft discuss how to get it, … Continue reading
Mike Kistler (Microsoft) on OpenAPI
OpenAPI is the framework of choice for documenting APIs OpenAPI support in ASP.NET Core API appshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/overview?view=aspnetcore-9.0 Generate OpenAPI documents at build-timehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/aspnetcore-openapi?view=aspnetcore-9.0&tabs=visual-studio%2Cvisual-studio-code#generate-openapi-documents-at-build-time The project file property to set the directory where the OpenAPI should be saved is “OpenApiDocumentsDirectory” and it is documented here:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/aspnetcore-openapi?view=aspnetcore-9.0&tabs=visual-studio%2Cvisual-studio-code#modifying-the-output-directory-of-the-generated-open-api-file This section contains … Continue reading
Claude
There’s a new AI kid on the block (https://claude.ai) and he is very powerful for programming and many other things. At the risk of being obnoxious, here is what he said about me:Jesse Liberty is a well-known software developer, author, … Continue reading
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APIs with C# – Part 4 Options
NET provides support for passing options via environment variables, appsettings.json, and XML files. as well as command line arguments. In short, each higher level overrides the settings in lower levels. To add options: Create a public class and name it … Continue reading
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144,000 users
My site says we just crossed 144,000 users. I’m stunned.
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Turn the tables: 2016
Episode 50: The Technical Journey of Jesse Liberty Episode 51: The Technical Wisdom of Jesse Liberty
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API – Functions Part 3: Routing
In the previous part of this series, we looked at creating our first API. But how do you determine which API is being invoked? This is accomplished with routing. If you have a Products class your entry (end point) might look … Continue reading
API Part 2 – Creating An Azure Function
This is part 2 in our series on .NET APIs with C# – Functions. Find Part 1 here. In this part we’ll talk about how you build an Azure Function. Functions are another way of interacting with an API. Here … Continue reading
