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    Accessing a PowerShell function from a separate repository in your Azure pipelines

    When working with multiple repositories in an Azure pipeline, you might need to access a PowerShell (.ps1) function from one repository while running your pipeline in another. Here’s a straightforward guide to make that happen:

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    Tips and tricks for accelerating your pipelines on GitLab

    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.

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    Call your .NET Core Api from your .NET MVC Application with Swagger and the HttpClientFactory class

    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.

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    How to create a Nuget Package of your .NET code and host it in a private Azure DevOps Feed

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

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    How to create an image gallery with Grid and only two CSS classes

    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.

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