Development

Exploring the Latest SwiftUI Animation Updates: Challenges and Triumphs

In 2023, SwiftUI has been updated to let you create even more captivating app experiences. Let's explore some of the successes and challenges from the dev side!

Best Practices

Play in Your Sandbox Again

Growing up, sandboxes were a great place to play. Microsoft built Windows Sandbox to do the same types of things in our new digital playground of computers and Windows.

ChatGPT

What are LLMs Bad At? And Why?

Why can't ChatGPT recite lyrics perfectly, or tell you the contents of books it knows? Let's discuss what LLMs are bad at...and why.

React

Supercharge Your React and React Native Project Initiation with These Must Have VS Code Plugins

Exploring some essential VS Code plugins that can significantly improve your React and React Native (R&RN) project initiation process.

Cloud

Accessing Azure SQL Server with a User-Assigned Managed Identity

Designing a secure application on the Microsoft Cloud is not trivial, but it is much simpler if we adhere to best practices. This post will enforce the "Minimize the use of password-based authentication for users" on a simple web application deployed to the Microsoft Azure cloud.

Azure

How To Decrease ABP's Azure Costs by An Order of Magnitude

The Azure SQL Serverless SKU can save you a lot of money, but only if you know how to take advantage of it. This post will show you how to minimize costs, particularly if you use the ABP Framework.

Android

So, You Want to Build a Video Game

In 2017, InfernoRed Technology Dev Jesse Douglas and his friend decided to take on the Holy Grail of software development: a video game. Here's what they learned.

DevOps

How To Deploy EF Database Migrations

How to deploy Entity Framework Database Migrations across multiple environments, revert migrations, and support complex migrations, all while avoiding security flags.

Best Practices

How to Work with Gmail Features in Big Systems

Help with tackling small - but frustrating - Gmail features in large software systems.

AI

Master ChatGPT Today or Risk Obsolescence Tomorrow

I tried ChatGPT for a week instead of search engines, official docs, and Stack Overflow. Here's what I learned.

.NET

MAUI Sounds Amazing. Is It?

You're ready for .NET MAUI, but is it ready for you? In this post, I share my real-world experience with Microsoft's latest write-once deploy-anywhere solution.

Best Practices

Whiteboard Tools to Collab Remotely

I'm always looking for better ways to collaborate with my fellow software and mobile developers here at InfernoRed. Recently, I got into exploring the best online whiteboard tools. Here's my list - can't wait to hear your favorites!

Best Practices

How to Improve Both Speed and Code Quality with GitHub Copilot

The new AI coding assistant from GitHub can help increase your speed, quality, and efficiency. Here's 5 tips to get you started.

Community

Seven Lessons I’ve Learned Building a Successful Software Consulting Company

Here's what I've learned after 10 years of building awesome software.

Productivity

6 Ways I'm Improving Mental Health in 2022

I hope you'll find inspiration among these 6 Ways in which I plan to make my 2022 better than 2021. I'm temporarily veering away from my traditional topics of .NET, OSS, and Maker content. This article includes a personal story related to mental health.

Community

ElectionGuard is One Of Fast Company's Next Big Things in Tech!

Congratulations to the Microsoft Defending Democracy team and the awesome team from InfernoRed for being named one of FastCompany's Next Big Things in Tech.

Community Featured

Join Us for Hacktoberfest 2021!

Hit pause on the corn mazes and the PSLs. The real highlight of fall is here – Hacktoberfest. We are excited to celebrate the open-source community and invite you to help us improve Microsoft's ElectionGuard. Whether you are an experienced dev or brand new at this, there are opportunities for all!

.NET

Stop Saving to Disk with C# Asynchronous Streams

My journey to solve a hard performance problem with a new-ish language feature: asynchronous streams. This post explains what asynchrnous streams are, and shows a real-world problem they can solve.

ASP.NET Core

2 Ways to Log the Current User in ASP.Net Core

How to automatically add current user info to logs in ASP.Net Core. First shown in ASP.Net Boilerplate with log4net. Next shown in ABP Framework with the Microsoft Logging Framework and Serilog.

DevOps

Cake Frosting: More Maintainable C# DevOps

How to write more maintainable DevOps code in C# with better tooling via the Frosting Cake Runner.

DevOps

The One Thing I Wish I'd Known Before Using Cake

Set yourself up for success on your next DevOps project by avoiding this gnarly Cake mistake

Xamarin.Forms

Using .NET Extensions to do Dependency Injection in Xamarin.Forms

.NET Extensions aren't just for ASP.NET Core. They actually provide many things that can be very useful in a Xamarin.Forms app including app configuration and dependency injection. In this post we will explore how to use the .NET Extensions dependency injection services in a Xamarin.Forms app.

Best Practices

Upgrade Your Mac Terminal: A Quick Guide to Make It Beautiful and Functional

Want to take control of your Mac terminal? Here's a quick guide with everything you need to get started.

Blazor

Add Superpowers to Your Next ASP.NET Project with the ABP Framework

ABP Framework is the next next generation of ASP.Net Boilerplate and can supercharge your next ASP.Net project.

Community

Six Lessons Learned and a New Tool Published After Organizing My 1st Virtual CodeCamp

6 lessons learned while moving the NoVA Code Camp online, and announcing Sessionized, a new open source app for Code Camp organizers