The week in .NET – Nuke, Warden.NET, .NET in Bangalore, and links!

Bertrand

August 1st, 2017

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Tool of the week: Nuke

Nuke is a cross-platform build automation system with C# DSL, much like Cake. It features auto-completion, refactoring, and navigation in all IDEs. Nuke avoids complexity, and integrates as a normal project.

[Parameter] string MyGetApiKey; Target Publish => _ => _ .Requires(() => MyGetApiKey) .OnlyWhen(() => IsServerBuild) .DependsOn(Pack) .Executes(() => GlobFiles(OutputDirectory / "packages", "*.nupkg") .ForEach(x => NuGetPush(s => s .SetTargetPath(x) .SetVerbosity(NuGetVerbosity.Detailed) .SetApiKey(MyGetApiKey) .SetSource("https://www.myget.org/F/nukebuild/api/v2/package"))));

Package of the week: Warden.NET

The System.Diagnostics.Process class while useful does not have a concept for parent applications; while Windows itself does track parents, it does not track grandparents and processes can quickly become orphaned. Which is where Warden comes in. Warden.NET is a simple to use library for managing processes and their states.

WardenManager.Initialize(); var wardenTest = await WardenProcess.Start("notepad.exe", string.Empty, ProcessTypes.Win32); if (wardenTest != null) { wardenTest.OnStateChange += delegate (object sender, StateEventArgs args) { Console.WriteLine($"---

Name: {wardenTest.Name}

Id: {wardenTest.Id}

state changed to {args.State}

---"); }; }

User group meeting of the week: .NET day in Bangalore

The .NET Bangalore user group has a full day event on Saturday, August 5 with a great agenda: ES6 for .NET developers, .NET Core WebAPI, ASP.NET Core, and AI with .NET.

.NET

ASP.NET

C#

F#

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Xamarin

Azure

UWP

And this is it for this week!

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