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How to 22 August 2025

How to set up Aspire

A step-by-step procedure to set up Aspire

Nunit 29 December 2024

How to extend the NUnit constraints

NUnit has a very rich and readable constraint set. Normally you don’t need to do anything. But, there are some cases where it would be nice to be able to tweak these constraints. You can always wrap them and extend them that way, but then you lose all the other good stuff, like chaining. What is not so well known is that you can extend the existing constraints, they are **designed** to be extendable! In this post I will show how you can do that easily.

Posts 29 December 2024

Setting up Visual Studio Code

C# extension

Add the standard C# extension

Solution extension

Add the solution extension

This goes together with organizing your code with a parent folder, called solution root, and then having each C# project in a corresponding subfolder. Add these projects to your solution using the solution extension.

Debugger

The C# debugger comes with the standard C# extension

Set up the debugger as shown in this post

If debugger won’t start, and saying things like Omnisharp server not running, then run the command (from the command palette) Omniserver restart and then Generate assets for debug.

Principles 01 July 2024

The Type-Safe-Boundary, what it is and how to use it to prevent bugs

Background

I’ve been writing code for some decades now. Over that time there is one thing I have learned through projects that have failed, projects that have been successes, legacy projects, greenfield projects, projects with dedicated experienced teams, projects with fresh new developers, distributed projects, closed source and open source, and all other kinds, being a consultant working with a multitude of companies and open source enthusiast, and that is - strongly typed code prevails.

The concept I am describing below is something I have been using for well over 20 years now, but never got around writing about. So, here it is!!