Anduin Xue

27

MAY

Build a package that can be used in browser and node with TypeScript

Sometimes I may need to share some of my logic\algorithm with other developers. In this case I might need to build a library. That library might be used in the customer's browser, or might be referenced by other front-end projects, may be based on Angular or React. So how can we build a package with TypeScript that benefits from strong type while can be installed\reference\used by others? After …

21

MAY

Use Azure Key Vault to store connection strings for App Service.

Sometimes, we need to provide key-values as environment variables for Azure app service, like database connection strings. In some cases, we might need someone to collaborate managing the app service. However, with app service environment variables access, he will also be able to connect to the database manually and do custom database operations, like drop database. That is not what we expected. …

Azure App Service Azure Security Key vault

20

MAY

Programmatically connect to the remote server via SSH and execute remote command.

Recently I was trying to build a server management tool. That I need to connect to my server (Ubuntu) programmatically. I usually access my server via SSH, as a normal human. So I wanna do it with the same approach. First, create a new .NET Core project with: dotnet new console After creating the new project, install the latest SSH.NET library. Reference: NuGet Gallery | SSH.NET 2020.0.1 And …

C# .NET Core bash Linux SSH

01

APR

Use JetBrains code quality analyzer to prevent checking-in bad C# code

When we are using Azure DevOps to review PR, it's simple and easy to use. Usually, we only run tests and build tasks, like this: In my previous blog, I mentioned how to run test and generate code coverage for CI pipelines: Display code coverage information for .NET Core project using Azure DevOps. - Anduin Xue (aiursoft.com) -------------- JetBrains ReSharper and Rider are impressive C# grammar …

C# Azure DevOps JetBrains Resharper Code Quality Pipelines

28

DEC

FFmpeg 用法概览

背景最近买了个4K，144Hz的 HDR 显示器。新的显示器很不错，于是我想先进行测试一下。于是我下载了非常多 4K 视频，准备观赏观赏。但是很快发现，怎么得到最优质的播放体验还是一个深坑。而衡量视频质量，除了看分辨率，还要看编码格式，码率，色彩，HDR等信息。显然，现在折腾视频，最方便的工具就是 ffmpeg 了。FFmpeg 是一个开放源代码的自由软件，可以执行音频和视频多种格式的录影、转换、串流功能，非常适合快速、批量的修改视频。开始之前安装ffmpeg ffmpeg 的最新版下载地址始终都是： https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/ffmpeg-git-full.7z 直接将其下载，解压，放到一个地方，将 exe 文件所在路径加入环境变量 PATH 即可。了解视频的编码格式开始之前，需要先了解平时经常使用的编码格式和平台支持情况，以及什 …

bash FFmpeg

22

DEC

C# run tasks in a threads pool with fixed size

Imagine I have 100 tasks to run. But my machine has only 16 core. So I expect that every core will run one task in parallel. And once a core is idle, assign a new task to it. That will be very easy for C# with Task. But before starting, we gonna create a thread-safe queue for saving our tasks. public class SafeQueue<T> { private readonly Queue<T> queue = new Queue& …

C# Async Task Multi-Threading

09

DEC

Display code coverage information for .NET Core project using Azure DevOps.

Target. Display code coverage information on your own .NET Core project. First, create a build pipeline in your Azure DevOps. If you are using the classic designer, you need to add new .NET Core command line step. Make sure you publish the test result. As for the Arguments input, insert: --configuration $(buildConfiguration) --collect "Code coverage" Or if you are using YAML: Add …

.NET Core Azure DevOps .NET Test MSTest Integration Test Code coverage GitHub

07

DEC

ASP.NET Core Integration Test using MSTest

In the official document, there is only an example of the ASP.NET Core integration test using xunit. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/test/integration-tests But what if you don't like xunit? Can we replace that with MSTest? Yes. We can. Brief steps Uninstall xunit. Install MSTest instead. First, clear the project structure. Install MSTest for your test project. Start your …

ASP.NET Core C# .NET Core Test MSTest Functional Test Integration Test

14

OCT

Fire and forget in ASP.NET Core with dependency alive

C# fire and forget might not be suitable in ASP.NET Core To fire and forget in C#, it is really simple: Task.Run(() => FireAway()); But the same approach might not be suitable in ASP.NET Core Controller. Consider the following example: public class MyController : Controller { private readonly MyHeavyDependency _hd; public MyController(MyHeavyDependency hd) { _hd …

ASP.NET Core C# Async Fire and forget

13

OCT

How to serialize JSON object in C# without Newtonsoft Json

In many cases, we may not be able to access Newtonsoft.Json package. Like sometime there might be different packages using different versions of it, which may cause version conflict via build. That usually happens in some projects really large. So how can we play with JSON as while without it? In pure C#? First, copy the following class to your project: public static class MyJsonConverter { …

C# JSON .NET Newtonsoft.Json

12

SEP

Enable PowerShell remoting for Windows Server machines

Like you can use SSH to execute remote command on a remote Linux machine and you can also execute remote PowerShell on a target Windows Server. To enable it with a self-signed certificate, execute the following command: (Execute it on your server) > Get-ChildItem WSMan:\Localhost\listener | Remove-Item -Recurse # Remove old listeners > Cert = New-SelfSignedCertificate -CertstoreLocation …

PowerShell Windows Server Remote Management WMI

26

JUL

Best-practice for authentication after creating a new Linux server

This article helps you change the following items if your cloud provider didn't do that for you. Create your own account instead of root. Disable password login and force to use SSH key to log in. Disable root account. Enable sudo without password. Before starting the process, make sure you have a valid SSH key-pair locally. Fist, connect to the server. (With root password). you@local …

bash Linux Ubuntu SSH

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