Author: William Forney

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Update on .NET Packages for Shared Code

Hello all, it’s been a while. I have fixed the build for my shared code NuGet packages and pushed a new package update targeting .NET 9 primarily. It should still work with .NET 8 as well. I dropped support for 6 and 7 since they are also out of support from Microsoft at this point. The .NET Core releases are…
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…and back to WordPress again…

A while ago I swapped my blog to BlogEngine.NET, then to MiniBlog, then to Ghost, then back to MiniBlog. Now I’m going back to WordPress again after a decade or so. The other platforms were nice, and some were integrated well, but nobody has kept them up, or they were just side demo projects for people. At this point I…
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Update to ASP.NET Core

Recently I updated the blog to MiniBlog.Core on ASP.NET Core. So far it seems pretty fast. I’m working on a new engine for it in my spare time using Azure Functions and blob storage. More to come when I find some time to update this. Technorati Tags: ASP.NET Core,MiniBlog.Core,update
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Aurelia with TypeScript on ASP.NET Core

I’ve been tracking the ASP.NET betas and release candidates over the past year or more and it’s coming along nicely. I like the separation of client side and server side in the new folder structure and the unification of the MVC and WebAPI controllers. For the past few years I’ve used jsViews, Kendo UI, Angular, Durandal, Knockout, and Aurelia for…
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Something different, something new, something blue

Amusingly today I’m looking at new cars, hence the blue and new, but that’s not all that’s going on. Today I am starting something new that will change hopefully not just my perception of the world, but others as well. It’s time for change. Let’s do this. Technorati Tags: different,new window,blue,change,winds of change,world,perception
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How to open a “new window” in a Windows 10 Universal App

I had to dig a little bit to find this. Since not all form factors support multiple windows and tablet mode generally discourages floating windows this is probably buried for a reason, but I wanted to do it anyway so here it is: var viewId = 0; var newView = CoreApplication.CreateNewView(); await newView.Dispatcher.RunAsync( CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal, () => { var frame =…

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