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I’ve been working on a small AWS Lambda that has needed many iterations, I quickly got tired of building it, zipping by hand from Windows UI, uploading from the AWS console UI, and executing a test from there. Here is a simple batch file that does it all.

Working with Json directly in C# has always been a problem, but as Json becomes more common the problems mount. I was using AWS Step Functions recently and wanted to pass the Json string output from a Lambda running .NET Core 3.1. As with all things C# Json string related, it was not easy.

It is strangely difficult to zip files from the command line with Windows 10. I spent an hour going round in circles between what you should be able to and what you can actually do. Here is a simple solution…

Want to see how easy it is to use a SQL Server Docker container with Entity Framework for .NET 6?

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.