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Over the years I’ve hesitated to add SQL Server to my laptop because of its size, but now it’s easy to run in inside a container with a single command.

This is a follow-up to a post I wrote a few days ago about varying the delay between retries based on the exception. This time I’m going to show how to vary the delay based on the result.

I often follow the src, test directory structure for my .NET projects. But if you open Visual Studio Code to the parent of these directories, you can’t use the build and test tasks without some modifications to the tasks.json file.

Polly’s Wait and Retry lets you decide how long it should pause based on the exception thrown in the invoked code. This is very useful when you know what problems can occur and how long you need to wait for them to resolve.

I thought it would be simple to add a task to run tests from the VS Code command palette, but it was not as straightforward as I hoped. Here’s how to do it.

When practicing a presentation on a single screen it is helpful to see the notes, next slide, time information, etc., that you normally get with multiple monitors. This can be done with the Presenter View.

There are at least two ways to count the number of times a mocked method is called with Moq. The first is with the Verify method, the second is with the Callback method.

For the sheer fun of doing a little silly programming…

Discards can now be used with Lambdas in C# 9. Here is a simple example.

AWS Step Functions are a very easy way to orchestrate many things. But they can also be used to run a Lambda at an exact time (down to a tenth of a second, or less), up to a year in the future.