Joseph Guadagno

Joseph Guadagno

@jguadagno.com

Microsoft Developer Services MVP, Open for Work, International Speaker and Keynoter, and Desert Code Camp organizer

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Joseph Guadagno
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ICYMI: (03/03/2025): "Backing Up Your Laptop Applications, Packages, and Configuration." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/3QG3OGD #Articles #git #GitHub #Settings #Technology

josephguadagno.netBacking Up Your Laptop Applications, Packages, and ConfigurationI’ve been thinking about purchasing a new laptop for travel. This got me thinking about the trauma of setting up a new laptop. In the past, I would spend some time on my existing laptop ‘writing down’ all the applications, settings, and configurations for my current laptop. This was a tedious process and I would always forget something. I would then spend the next few weeks remembering what I had forgotten and making the changes. This was a very inefficient process.
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ICYMI: (02/16/2026): "JetBrains Rider Settings for Presentations." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/4qJXc9I #Articles #JetBrains #Plugin #Presentation #Presentations #presenting #Rider #Settings

josephguadagno.netJetBrains Rider Settings for PresentationsI have been using JetBrains Rider for a while now and I have been really happy with it. I have also been using it for presentations and demos. I thought I would share how I set it up for presentations.
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ICYMI: (05/19/2021): "Migrate to ASP.NET Core MVC from ASP.NET Framework MVC." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/2S5mMv5 #.NET #.NET Framework #Articles #ASP.NET #ASP.NET Core #ASP.NET Core MVC #MVC #Razor #Web

josephguadagno.netMigrate to ASP.NET Core MVC from ASP.NET Framework MVC.NET has been around for a while and has had many versions. We started the .NET Framework, moved into .NET Core, and now just .NET, kind of sort of :smile:. Keeping your application up with the latest version of .NET can be challenging. There are budgets to consider, time to learn the differences, and time to “fit in the migration.” Migrating or “upgrading” an ASP.NET MVC from .NET Framework to ASP.NET Core can be easy at times. Other times it can be just hard. There are no silver bullets to the migration as each project and solution is different. I’m going to walk you through one of the ways you can have a successful migration from ASP.NET MVC to ASP.NET Core MVC. At the end of the post, I’ll show you some gotchas that I have run across migrating applications.
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ICYMI: (09/24/2019): "New Type of Identity Theft." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/2kY9KPW #Articles #Identity Theft #Security #Technology

josephguadagno.netNew Type of Identity TheftA few days ago, I got an email with the subject of Inquiry from a Michael Fleming at michaeltfleming6@gmail.com. Initially, I didn’t think anything of it. This time of the year I get a lot of emails with random subjects because of Desert Code Camp. So I opened it and here is what it said.
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ICYMI: (06/14/2020): "Speed up Creating Code with Live Templates in JetBrains Rider or ReSharper." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/2B7m1cq #Articles #JetBrains #Productivity #ReSharper #Rider #Unit Tests

josephguadagno.netSpeed up Creating Code with Live Templates in JetBrains Rider or ReSharperFor the past few weekends, I’ve been working rebuilding a library I wrote to make it easier to use Azure Storage. I started this library about 4 or 5 years ago, and it did not have ‘true’ unit tests. I’m not going to talk about what makes a good unit test and what doesn’t. There are plenty of posts around that! I decided to rewrite all of the tests and move to xUnit. After creating about the 50th test or so, I noticed a pattern in the initial shell of the tests. Most of the tests looked like this.
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ICYMI: (04/07/2020): "Setup an Azure Application with Permissions to Enable Certificate Signing." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/2VcDtTl #.NET Core #Articles #Azure #Azure Artifacts #Certificate #Key Vault #NuGet #Pipeline

josephguadagno.netSetup an Azure Application with Permissions to Enable Certificate SigningIn a previous post, I walked through how to upload a code signing certificate to Azure Key Vault. This post will walk you through setting up the Azure “application” so that our Azure Pipeline (future post) will be able to sign our NuGet package without having to download the package. Thanks to Claire for the advice.
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ICYMI: (12/06/2022): "Encryption Is Now Required for SQL Server Connection Strings." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/3H9Trap #.NET #Articles #dotnet #SQL Server

josephguadagno.netEncryption Is Now Required for SQL Server Connection StringsWhile I was presenting my workshop Building and Deploying a New Cloud App from Scratch at DEVIntersections yesterday the connection to the database kept failing. Which was weird because I’ve gone through the code quite a few times to make sure everything worked. The good thing is that it failed during the creation of the integration tests which demonstrated the benefit of creating them. However, that did not help me on stage. I was getting the following error:
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ICYMI: (09/24/2019): "New Type of Identity Theft." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/2kY9KPW #Articles #Identity Theft #Security #Technology

josephguadagno.netNew Type of Identity TheftA few days ago, I got an email with the subject of Inquiry from a Michael Fleming at michaeltfleming6@gmail.com. Initially, I didn’t think anything of it. This time of the year I get a lot of emails with random subjects because of Desert Code Camp. So I opened it and here is what it said.
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ICYMI: (06/03/2022): "Enabling user authentication in Swagger using Microsoft Identity." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/3m9Ar02 #Articles #Entra #Identity #Managed Identity #MSAL #swagger

josephguadagno.netEnabling user authentication in Swagger using Microsoft IdentityI’ve been working on a personal project of mine called “JosephGuadagno.NET Broadcasting”. I know a terrible name, but I’ll work on a better name when it’s ready to be launched. :smile: This application is a web application that allows users to broadcast their content to their followers. One of the components of the application is an API that allows users to create and schedule their content in the application. The application is built using ASP.NET Core, Azure, Swagger, and other components. I recently secured the application using Microsoft’s MSAL library. Now, I’m going to show you how to enable user authentication in Swagger using Microsoft Identity.
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ICYMI: (07/20/2020): "Debugging Azure Function Event Grid Triggers Locally with JetBrains Rider." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/2WEWWxs #Articles #Azure #Event Grid #Functions #Rider

josephguadagno.netDebugging Azure Function Event Grid Triggers Locally with JetBrains RiderIf you’ve done much with Azure Functions and the Event Grid triggers, you’ve probably come across the post ‘Azure Function Event Grid Trigger Local Debugging’. Even searching for ‘Azure Function Event Grid Trigger’ on Bing and it’s the first result that comes up, at least for me. :smile: The post itself, at the time of me writing this, is almost two years old. While most of the post is still valid, some of Azure has changed, and the post is based on using Visual Studio. So this post is meant to be a modernized version of that post using JetBrains Rider.
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ICYMI: (08/16/2023): "Working with the LinkedIn API with C#." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/3KLmxOh #.NET #API #Articles #csharp #LinkedIn

josephguadagno.netWorking with the LinkedIn API with C#The last day few days, I have been experimenting with the LinkedIn API to send my blog posts, YouTube videos, and community updates automatically to my LinkedIn profile from my open-source project JosephGuadagnoNet.Broadcasting. It’s been quite a challenge to get it to work. I ran into authentication issues, permission issues, and serialization issues. So what did I decide to do? You guessed, solve the issues and blog about it so you don’t have to.
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ICYMI: (09/07/2020): "Dependency Injection with Azure Functions." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/2QWZOCG #Articles #Azure #Dependency Injection #Functions

josephguadagno.netDependency Injection with Azure FunctionsI got bit by the dependency injection bug a few months ago and want to use it when I can, and it makes sense. Within a month or so of writing this post, Azure Functions started to support dependency injection in functions. It uses the .NET Core Dependency Injection system, so if you are used to that, this should mostly look familiar to you, except for what you have to do to wire up the Azure Functions SDK.
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ICYMI: (04/07/2020): "Setup an Azure Application with Permissions to Enable Certificate Signing." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/2VcDtTl #.NET Core #Articles #Azure #Azure Artifacts #Certificate #Key Vault #NuGet #Pipeline

josephguadagno.netSetup an Azure Application with Permissions to Enable Certificate SigningIn a previous post, I walked through how to upload a code signing certificate to Azure Key Vault. This post will walk you through setting up the Azure “application” so that our Azure Pipeline (future post) will be able to sign our NuGet package without having to download the package. Thanks to Claire for the advice.
Joseph Guadagno
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ICYMI: (12/27/2020): "Hard Wire your Home without Ethernet using MoCA." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/3hwP9v3 #Articles #MoCa #Networking

josephguadagno.netHard Wire your Home without Ethernet using MoCAThere are so many devices that are connected to our home networks nowadays. I have multiple Amazon Fire Sticks, computers, smart TVs, mobile phones, smart appliances, and so much more. At any given time, there are around forty devices connected to my home network. Since working from home, I have three to four machines that are constantly ‘on the internet’. The main house TV, my work computer, my son’s computer or Xbox, and the daughter’s Fire Stick/YouTube. These devices are typically streaming in some way, shape, or form. All of these devices, plus the other 30 or so on, were taxing my router. I currently don’t have any CAT5/6/7 wiring in my house, so I tried extending my wireless network a few different ways.
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ICYMI: (09/24/2019): "New Type of Identity Theft." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/2kY9KPW #Articles #Identity Theft #Security #Technology

josephguadagno.netNew Type of Identity TheftA few days ago, I got an email with the subject of Inquiry from a Michael Fleming at michaeltfleming6@gmail.com. Initially, I didn’t think anything of it. This time of the year I get a lot of emails with random subjects because of Desert Code Camp. So I opened it and here is what it said.
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ICYMI: (01/18/2021): "Using Yarn with ASP.NET Core Projects." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/3iocHCB #Articles #ASP.NET #ASP.NET Core #ASP.NET Core MVC #MVC #Razor #Web #Yarn

josephguadagno.netUsing Yarn with ASP.NET Core ProjectsSince I got bitten by the CI/CD bug, I’ve been looking at ways to clean up some code-bases and make it easier to deploy and store less unneeded files in my repositories. This time around it got me looking into Yarn
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ICYMI: (08/29/2020): "Working with Microsoft Identity - Assigning a Role." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/3lr217v #Articles #Azure #Entra #Identity #Managed Identity #MSAL

josephguadagno.netWorking with Microsoft Identity - Assigning a RoleSecuring our applications and data is critical in this day and age. I’ve been working a lot with the new Microsoft identity platform (MSAL) library, so I decided to create a series of blog posts around working with it.
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ICYMI: (05/13/2020): "What It Means to be a Software Engineer." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/2Arl4eN #Articles #Technology

josephguadagno.netWhat It Means to be a Software EngineerThere has been much talk on social media about being a Software Engineer/Developer/Programmer in the last week or so, probably because we are all being safe and staying in our houses with not much else to do. Conversations have included what it takes to be an engineer, how to get started in engineering, and explaining what a ‘Software Engineer’ does.
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ICYMI: (09/20/2020): "Priorities." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/3hQuCzL #Articles #Personal

josephguadagno.netPrioritiesA year ago, yesterday, I went to the Emergency Room because I was getting cold sweats, and something did not feel right with my body. Well, after a few tests and a few doctors later, a cardiologist came in and told me I had 90% blockage in the left anterior descending artery, better known as the Widow Maker. It’s known as the widow maker because you tend to have minutes left to live when it is blocked. I am glad I listened to my body and my wife and went into the Emergency Room.
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ICYMI: (03/27/2021): "Creating a Search Suggestion widget using Azure Maps Search Service and KendoUI Autocomplete.." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/4g5YgA5 #Articles #Autocomplete #Azure #Azure Maps #Azure Maps Search #Kendo UI #Telerik

josephguadagno.netCreating a Search Suggestion widget using Azure Maps Search Service and KendoUI Autocomplete.When using Google or Bing Maps to lookup an address or point of interest, both display address suggestions in a user-friendly way. In the example below, I type “Time Square”, and Bing suggests a few addresses/places.
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ICYMI: (03/10/2020): "Using git tag for Presentations or Workshops." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/3laiRGU #Articles #git #Presentation #Presentations #Speaking #workshop

josephguadagno.netUsing git tag for Presentations or WorkshopsWhile we hope it never happens, demo failures happen when presenting talks or doing workshops. I do not know of a speaker that has not had a demo go bad while up on stage or live streams. Many of us have a back up plan… After searching around for solutions for this, I decided to use git tagging to solve this for me.
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ICYMI: (09/07/2020): "Dependency Injection with Azure Functions." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/2QWZOCG #Articles #Azure #Dependency Injection #Functions

josephguadagno.netDependency Injection with Azure FunctionsI got bit by the dependency injection bug a few months ago and want to use it when I can, and it makes sense. Within a month or so of writing this post, Azure Functions started to support dependency injection in functions. It uses the .NET Core Dependency Injection system, so if you are used to that, this should mostly look familiar to you, except for what you have to do to wire up the Azure Functions SDK.
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ICYMI: (11/05/2020): "Embedding OneDrive Hosted PowerPoint slides in Jekyll Posts." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/2GueVlr #Articles #Jekyll #OneDrive #PowerPoint

josephguadagno.netEmbedding OneDrive Hosted PowerPoint slides in Jekyll PostsI was chatting with Dave Brock (@daveabrock) about our .NET 5 presentations today (.NET 5 - What is it?). He mentioned that he wanted to “steal” my PowerPoint embed feature. Dave’s a nice guy and all but is it really stealing if you ask for it? :smile:
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ICYMI: (06/03/2022): "Enabling user authentication in Swagger using Microsoft Identity." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/3m9Ar02 #Articles #Entra #Identity #Managed Identity #MSAL #swagger

josephguadagno.netEnabling user authentication in Swagger using Microsoft IdentityI’ve been working on a personal project of mine called “JosephGuadagno.NET Broadcasting”. I know a terrible name, but I’ll work on a better name when it’s ready to be launched. :smile: This application is a web application that allows users to broadcast their content to their followers. One of the components of the application is an API that allows users to create and schedule their content in the application. The application is built using ASP.NET Core, Azure, Swagger, and other components. I recently secured the application using Microsoft’s MSAL library. Now, I’m going to show you how to enable user authentication in Swagger using Microsoft Identity.

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ICYMI: (08/16/2023): "Working with the LinkedIn API with C#." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/3KLmxOh #.NET #API #Articles #csharp #LinkedIn

josephguadagno.netWorking with the LinkedIn API with C#The last day few days, I have been experimenting with the LinkedIn API to send my blog posts, YouTube videos, and community updates automatically to my LinkedIn profile from my open-source project JosephGuadagnoNet.Broadcasting. It’s been quite a challenge to get it to work. I ran into authentication issues, permission issues, and serialization issues. So what did I decide to do? You guessed, solve the issues and blog about it so you don’t have to.
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ICYMI: (12/10/2022): "Visual Studio Code File List Sort Order." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/3UG1ejm #Articles #Visual Studio #Visual Studio Code #VSCode

josephguadagno.netVisual Studio Code File List Sort OrderThis morning I was working on a blog post on getting started with Developer Containers. For this, I opened up Visual Studio Code and JetBrains Rider. Once I opened them side by side, I noticed that the files on the file list in their “Explorers’” were in a different sort order. This confused me because, at least I think, they have always been in the same order, dotted (.) folders first, then underscored (_) folders, then “regular”, then files. That was not the case for Visual Studio Code it was sorted with underscored (_) folders first, then dotted (.) folders, then “regular”, then files.
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ICYMI: (07/19/2022): "How to simplify your C# unit testing with a mocking framework." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/3aSrm9F #Articles #Mock #testing #Unit Tests

josephguadagno.netHow to simplify your C# unit testing with a mocking frameworkIt’s time to take your unit testing to the next level. You’ve implemented either NUnit, or xUnit, or MSTest in your projects. You’ve gotten your code coverage to 80+%. But the are just some things that are hard to test or validate in your project. How do you test the “business logic” in your repository class? How do you test your dependent web service or database? Yeah, you can write special unit test and create fake objects to mimic these dependencies but why waste your time writing code that does not ship with the end product. Or write a lot of code with the ExcludeFromCoverage attribute :smile:. Well this is mocking comes in.
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ICYMI: (12/27/2020): "Hard Wire your Home without Ethernet using MoCA." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/3hwP9v3 #Articles #MoCa #Networking

josephguadagno.netHard Wire your Home without Ethernet using MoCAThere are so many devices that are connected to our home networks nowadays. I have multiple Amazon Fire Sticks, computers, smart TVs, mobile phones, smart appliances, and so much more. At any given time, there are around forty devices connected to my home network. Since working from home, I have three to four machines that are constantly ‘on the internet’. The main house TV, my work computer, my son’s computer or Xbox, and the daughter’s Fire Stick/YouTube. These devices are typically streaming in some way, shape, or form. All of these devices, plus the other 30 or so on, were taxing my router. I currently don’t have any CAT5/6/7 wiring in my house, so I tried extending my wireless network a few different ways.
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ICYMI: (06/15/2022): "Clean up some .NET Clutter." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/3MX3EWK #.NET #.NET Core #Articles #csharp #dotnet #runtime #sdk #vb #visualbasic

josephguadagno.netClean up some .NET ClutterAs some of you know, I do a lot of public speaking and blogging, although the blogging seems to have taken a vacation lately :smile:. One of the side effects of blogging and speaking is that I have a lot of versions of .NET on my machine, along with other software. Today, after installing the latest version of .NET, I took a look at what versions of the SDK and runtime I have on my machine. I was a bit surprised to see that as to how many versions of .NET were on my machine.
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ICYMI: (09/24/2019): "New Type of Identity Theft." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/2kY9KPW #Articles #Identity Theft #Security #Technology

josephguadagno.netNew Type of Identity TheftA few days ago, I got an email with the subject of Inquiry from a Michael Fleming at michaeltfleming6@gmail.com. Initially, I didn’t think anything of it. This time of the year I get a lot of emails with random subjects because of Desert Code Camp. So I opened it and here is what it said.
Joseph Guadagno
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ICYMI: (03/10/2020): "Using git tag for Presentations or Workshops." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/3laiRGU #Articles #git #Presentation #Presentations #Speaking #workshop

josephguadagno.netUsing git tag for Presentations or WorkshopsWhile we hope it never happens, demo failures happen when presenting talks or doing workshops. I do not know of a speaker that has not had a demo go bad while up on stage or live streams. Many of us have a back up plan… After searching around for solutions for this, I decided to use git tagging to solve this for me.
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ICYMI: (11/24/2020): "Thanksgiving and Silver Linings." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/36058NN #Articles #Personal

josephguadagno.netThanksgiving and Silver LiningsWhile I am grateful for the old man bladder that woke me up at 2 am (AZ time) only to realize that my daughter was not home yet which kept me up (thank you parenting gene) which gave me all the energy in the world to wake up for the day, it did provide me with the energy to write this blog post. The Silver Lining. This time of the year in the U.S. we celebrate Thanksgiving, a holiday where we reflect and give thanks for the things we have. While 2020, and the pandemic has thrown a curve ball for many of us…

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Heads up! The Update Conference Krakow 2027 call for speakers is open! It's an amazing event. I'd love to submit, but it overlaps with my daughter's graduation this time. buff.ly/ZfL8QI3 #uck2027 #cfp #callforpapers #callforspeakers #devconference

buff.lyUpdate Conference Krakow 2027: Call for SpeakersAfter a successful Update Conference Krakow 2026 & 2025, we are now looking for speakers for Update Conference Krakow 2027.The main topics of Update C...
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ICYMI: (12/27/2020): "Hard Wire your Home without Ethernet using MoCA." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/3hwP9v3 #Articles #MoCa #Networking

josephguadagno.netHard Wire your Home without Ethernet using MoCAThere are so many devices that are connected to our home networks nowadays. I have multiple Amazon Fire Sticks, computers, smart TVs, mobile phones, smart appliances, and so much more. At any given time, there are around forty devices connected to my home network. Since working from home, I have three to four machines that are constantly ‘on the internet’. The main house TV, my work computer, my son’s computer or Xbox, and the daughter’s Fire Stick/YouTube. These devices are typically streaming in some way, shape, or form. All of these devices, plus the other 30 or so on, were taxing my router. I currently don’t have any CAT5/6/7 wiring in my house, so I tried extending my wireless network a few different ways.