Source code of support available at GitHub

Sometimes assemblies (executables and libraries) are required to be sign and I don’t have a certificate available for test purpose. In this post I pretend to show how to generate a certificate to sign assemblies.

First, we need to install OpenSSL that we can achive following the steps specified in the next link:

Installing OpenSSL on Windows 10 and updating PATH

Second, let’s create a batch script file called: “generateCertificate.cmd” with content:

Source code of support available at GitHub

I a previous post we saw how to: “Create NuGet packages” but the deployment step was still a manual process. Let’s try to automatize this. Figure 1 shows how to generate NuGet package for a .NET Core project (similar to the approach previously shown) using the project’s properties.

Figure 1: “Creating NuGet package”.

This adds a couple of lines into the project file (.csproj) as figure 2 shows:

Lately I have been involved in the creation of several NuGet packages useful for some portals being developed. I want to share my knowledge in this topic.

If we were developing libraries for .NET Core or .NET Standard life would be easy as figure 1 to figure 8 shows.

Figure 1: “Creating a new .NET Core library”.

Figure 2: “Default code”.

Source code of support available at GitHub

Since while ago I wanted to share my experiences automatizing the product releases with Octopus from Visual Studio. Again, let’s do it through an example.

As it could not be otherwise, figure 1 shows the first package you should add to your project in order to create Octopus packages ready to be deployed: “OctoPack”. The latest package version available at the time of this tutorial was the “3.6.1” but we installed the “3.6.0” on purpose in order to show the update process.

A colleague ask me to share my experience coding with ReSharper and once he heard that I’m not use ReSharper he was even more curious about how I write source codes. Who knows me knows I love NuGet packages and be updated constantly, that’s why I found a very useful package that I install in all my projects as soon I start it.

StyleCop.MSBuild

StyleCop used to be a standalone application with integration with Visual Studio but that changed a while ago. I’ll explain through an example. Let’s start creating a console application from scratch.