Lybecker
My software development adventures…
Installing Windows with Secure Boot from USB drive
Once and a while I reinstall my machine. It feels nice with a clean slate as I tend to install all...
Author: Anders Lybecker Date: 07/18/2017
Composing your own Windows Container with a Dockerfile
In the previous blog post Getting Started with Windows Containers I showed how to run containers and...
Author: Anders Lybecker Date: 09/02/2016
Getting started with Windows Containers
Soon Windows Server 2016 will be released and so will the Docker Engine compatible Windows...
Author: Anders Lybecker Date: 08/31/2016
Minimizing the cost of dev/test environments in Azure
I use Windows Azure as my dev/test environment because it is fast and convenient to create new...
Author: Anders Lybecker Date: 03/02/2015
How-to start and stop Azure VMs at a schedule
I use Azure VMs for dev/test and I do not want them to run all night, as I have to pay for it....
Author: Anders Lybecker Date: 02/27/2015
How-to start and stop Azure VMs via PowerShell
With PowerShell it is fast and convenient to manage my development and test servers running on...
Author: Anders Lybecker Date: 02/26/2015
Auto-property initializers
At first auto-property initializers does not sound very interesting at all, but wait…Read...
Author: Anders Lybecker Date: 01/28/2015
Initialize a Dictionary with index initializers
A small but still significant feature in C# 6 is index initializers. Index initializers can be sued...
Author: Anders Lybecker Date: 01/28/2015
Awesome string formatting
Using the versatile string.Format required a lot of typing and keeping the numbed placeholders in...
Author: Anders Lybecker Date: 01/27/2015
Expression-bodied methods
Expression-bodied methods make it possible for methods and properties to be used as expressions...
Author: Anders Lybecker Date: 01/27/2015
The nameof operator
The nameof operator takes a class, method, property, field or variable and returns the string...
Author: Anders Lybecker Date: 01/26/2015
Chained null checks
Null-conditional operators is one of the features in C# 6 that will save the world from a lot of...
Author: Anders Lybecker Date: 01/26/2015