Azure, DevOps and .NET articles

When practicing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), optimizing build, test, and deploy times becomes crucial. GitLab, a popular platform for managing CI/CD pipelines, offers several strategies to speed up your workflows. Let’s explore some tricks you can use to accelerate the entire process.

The scenario of calling your API from another part of your application is widely needed. This article explains how to call a .NET Core API from your UI, which in this case is a .NET Core MVC application. We’ll create a client for our API methods using Swagger, make it available via a NuGet package to the MVC application, and call the API with the help of the IHttpClientFactory.

In this tutorial we are going to see how to set up your .NET code as a Nuget Package and host this package on a private Azure DevOps Feed. You can then use the Package on other .NET projects.

For my latest article I wanted to create a matrix of photos and the grid layout option of CSS came into the rescue. With only two CSS classes, one for the grid itself and one for the grid cells you can create a beautiful image gallery for your website.

We are also going to see how to apply the grid on Markdown code and how to change the way the grid is presented on mobile devices.

Mapping objects with AutoMapper can save you a lot of time and repeated code. However, some mappings are more tricky than others. Consider the example where we want to map two lists of objects and moreover, a specific property of each of these list-objects should contain the value of a property from a parent object.

Let us see this scenario with a concrete example: