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I am a professional software engineer and technical architect with over twenty years commercial development experience with a strong focus on the design and development of web and mobile applications.

I have experience of architecting scalable, distributed, high volume web applications that are accessible from multiple devices due to their responsive web design, including architecting enterprise service-oriented solutions. I have also developed enterprise mobile applications using Xamarin and Telerik Platform.

I have extensive experience using .NET, ASP.NET, Windows and Web Services, WCF, SQL Server, LINQ and other Microsoft technologies. I am also familiar with HTML, Bootstrap, Javascript (inc. JQuery and Node.js), CSS, XML, JSON, Apache Cordova, KendoUI and many other web and mobile related technologies.

I am enthusiastic about Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Application Life-cycle Management having configured such environments using CruiseControl.NET, TeamCity and Team Foundation Services. I enjoy working in Agile and Test Driven Development (TDD) environments.

Outside of work I have two beautiful daughters. I am also an avid cyclist who enjoys reading, listening to music and travelling.

 

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GeneralSetting up my first build pipeline with Azure DevOps Pin
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GeneralChoosing a mobile application development platform Pin
Dominic Burford4-Sep-18 1:36
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GeneralExecuting an AJAX request from an ASP.NET Core querystring parameter Pin
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GeneralBuilding a Document Manager with ASP.NET Core 2.1 Pin
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GeneralReducing the surface area of the client Pin
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GeneralUnderstanding what you're doing Pin
Dominic Burford26-Jul-18 3:24
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GeneralSetting environments in ASP.NET Core Pin
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GeneralCreating a zipped deployment for an ASP.NET Core web application Pin
Dominic Burford28-Jun-18 23:59
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When I deployed the ASP.NET Web API services to our Azure hosting endpoint, I needed to create a zipped deployment file to do this. Azure then unzips the contents of this file and deploys it into your hosting slot. I needed to do the same thing recently with our ASP.NET Core 2.0 web application.

Just to clarify, I am using Team Foundation Services (TFS) for all our builds and releases. I much prefer using a build server than to deploy straight from Visual Studio. Yes I know this is entirely possible, but I prefer to keep the build and deployment lifecycle separate from the development lifecycle. I find this leads to greater efficiency, particularly when you have a team of developers who need to collaborate on the same code.

When I did this previously with the ASP.NET Web API project, I used an MSBUILD task from TFS and used the argument /t:publish,package to force the creation of the zipped deployment file. However, the /t:package argument does not exist for ASP.NET Core projects. So how do you create the zip file needed to deploy your web application to Azure.

Well it seems that there a couple of ways to achieve this (although they don't seem to be fully documented anywhere that I can find). I had to resort to reading through Stackoverflow to find the answer. You can either use MSBUILD or dotnet build. As the arguments that are passed to dotnet build are ultimately passed into MSBUILD (yes it is good old MSBUILD that sits underneath dotnet build), I decided to opt for using MSBUILD. I am also much more familiar with MSBUILD having used it for many years building many other applications.

The MSBUILD statement that worked for me is the following.
"Path\To\MSBuild\MSBuild.exe" /p:configuration="release";platform="any cpu";WebPublishMethod=Package;PackageFileName="\MyFolder\package.zip";DesktopBuildPackageLocation="\MyFolder\package.zip";PackageAsSingleFile=true;PackageLocation="\MyFolder\package.zip";DeployOnBuild=true;DeployTarget=Package
I have this command in a batch file which I then run under TFS as a build step. This build step is one of the last steps in the build process because it only needs to run prior to the release process.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare

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GeneralI’m turning into a Microsoft fanboy Pin
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GeneralAdding a confirmation dialog to an ASP.NET Core 2.0 form page handler Pin
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GeneralUploading a file in ASP.NET Core 2.0 Pin
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GeneralASP.NET Core 2.0 Razor Page Handlers Pin
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GeneralMocking the HttpContext Session object in ASP.NET Core 2.0 Pin
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GeneralUsing ViewComponents in ASP.NET Core 2.0 Pin
Dominic Burford16-Apr-18 22:49
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GeneralWeb application metrics with Application Insight Part 2 Pin
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GeneralWriting flexible code in ASP.NET Core 2.0 Razor Pages Pin
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GeneralPerforming Code Coverage for .NET Core 2.0 applications Pin
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GeneralRe: Performing Code Coverage for .NET Core 2.0 applications Pin
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GeneralRe: Performing Code Coverage for .NET Core 2.0 applications Pin
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GeneralBuilding ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications Pin
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GeneralObtaining the authentication token returned from Azure AD B2C in ASP.NET Core 2.0 Pin
Dominic Burford16-Mar-18 2:03
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GeneralVersioning a .NET Core 2.0 application Pin
Dominic Burford13-Mar-18 2:34
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GeneralThe next generation technical stack Pin
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GeneralWriting flexible code Pin
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GeneralA cautionary tale of over-confidence in your own opinions Pin
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