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My Experience Starting a User Group

I’ve always thought about starting a user group but after toying with the idea for years, I finally decided to do it.  So a few months back I decide to start WENetDevelopers a .NET Developer Group in for my surrounding area of Windsor & Essex County in Ontario, Canada. Experience so far… A friend of mine, Shawn Rakowski, asked me to put a blog post together about the experience of starting a user group as he was thinking of doing the same in his area.  I figured It was probably a good idea to document my experience along the way. I do… Read More »My Experience Starting a User Group

Migrate from Katana to ASP.NET Core

It is possible to migrate from Katana (Microsoft’s OWIN implementation)  to ASP.NET Core.  The secret is in still using the full .NET Framework. Full Framework? I recently spoke at the Windsor-Essex .NET Developers group and was explaining to some developers that ASP.NET Core could run on the full .NET Framework. The reaction I got was slight confusion.  Based on this, I assume there are others that were unaware of this. The other issue is the term “Full Framework”.  I’m not sure if this is the common term, but I have heard it from many as reference to the .NET Framework that comes… Read More »Migrate from Katana to ASP.NET Core

Linking to Nancy Routes

I’ve previously blogged about Nancy.Linker, the URI Builder for NancyFX.  However, I wanted to take it a step further and give an actual example of how I handle linking to Nancy routes through my application. Organize by Feature I organize my application by features.   Features are generally commands or queries.  They are either returning data (queries) or actions that represent behaviors (commands). This means that I generally only have one route per feature.  Since I organize by feature, this means that I put the Nancy module with the single route and then all subsequent code (commands or queries, handlers, models) in that… Read More »Linking to Nancy Routes