Visual Studio on Chris Reddington

Microsoft Build 2022

Wed, 25 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Tech Roundup - March 2022

Sat, 26 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Overwhelmed at keeping up to date with Azure? Or how about keeping a pulse on the Latest GitHub news, Azure DevOps and more? In this episode, Chris provides a summary of updates on the latest Azure DevOps News, GitHub updates and new announcements in Azure.

And if that wasn’t enough, he also gives a roundup of the latest on Cloud With Chris - including episodes, blog posts, open source projects and community work! Let Chris do the hard work keeping you on top of everything! Grab some snacks. Grab a drink. Come along and tune in for a relaxed and informative learning session!

ToolUp Tuesday - #3

Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Chris and Matt tackle the world events engine, opening the project in Visual Studio for its stronger .NET development experience compared to VS Code. They connect the engine to the Player State models using .NET project references — acknowledging it as a pragmatic but temporary shortcut that will need refactoring into proper NuGet packages later.

The episode dives into game design architecture, conceptualizing the engine as a state machine that loads current world state, applies player inputs and world events, and produces updated state. They design an action points system where players spend points to make decisions each turn, with costs varying by action type. The discussion also covers github.dev for browser-based editing, and they plan to build the player decisions API in Go for the next episode.

36 - Application Insights: The Tool You Never Knew You Needed

Fri, 21 May 2021 15:30:00 +0000

Production issues, performance bottlenecks, and silent failures are every developer’s nightmare. Azure Application Insights — part of the Azure Monitor family — gives you the visibility to detect, diagnose, and resolve problems before they escalate. In this session, Chris is joined by Isaac Levins (self-described Application Insights superfan) to explore how Application Insights fits into the full DevOps lifecycle.

Topics covered in this session include:

What Application Insights is and how it sits within the broader Azure Monitor ecosystem
Instrumenting a .NET 5 application via Visual Studio in seconds, using the eShopOnWeb reference app
Codeless instrumentation for IIS-hosted apps using a PowerShell commandlet — no codebase access required
Live exception tracking and root-cause analysis for production incidents
User flow and funnel analysis to understand how customers navigate your application
Business-level custom event tracking to inform product investment decisions
How telemetry closes the DevOps loop — feeding insights back into the next development sprint

Whether you are a developer triaging exceptions, an architect evaluating observability tooling, or a product owner trying to understand real user behaviour, Application Insights delivers actionable data at every level.

32 - Accelerate .NET to Azure with GitHub Actions

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:30:00 +0000

GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate your entire .NET software delivery pipeline — from build and test through to deployment on Azure. In this episode, Chris Reddington is joined by Isaac Levin, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft and a lifelong .NET developer, to walk through how GitHub Actions YAML workflows streamline deploying .NET and ASP.NET Core applications to Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and Azure Static Web Apps (including Blazor WebAssembly). Isaac traces the evolution of CI/CD tooling from FTP and CruiseControl.NET through to modern GitHub Actions, demonstrates how Azure and Visual Studio integrate to auto-generate workflows, and shares practical tips for getting started quickly.