Paul Michaels

I'm a Lead Developer. I've been programming professionally since 1997. I'm interested in finding neat solutions to difficult problems.

Joined on May 8, 2019 https://www.pmichaels.net

Paul Michaels

Jul 16 '20

A Walk Down Memory Lane - How Technology Has Changed (and stayed the same) over the last 23 years.

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Console Games - Snake - Part 1

I'm thinking specifically of things like async / await, tha...

Oct 24 '19

#help has had a makeover

I suppose my only comment would be that there's already a s...

Oct 17 '19

Console Games - Snake - Part 1

Thank you for reading it. I suppose the only problem with ...

Oct 8 '19

Writing a game in a console application - Part 0

Looks interesting. In the following posts, I go into the p...

Oct 2 '19

What's an error message that made you laugh?

There's the old classic: Keyboard error, press F1 to cont...

Sep 28 '19

What would the programming language sorting hat pick for you, and why?

Never said I wasn't weird :-) It's a bit like watching a s...

Sep 23 '19

What would the programming language sorting hat pick for you, and why?

Turbo Pascal is definitely the best language (actually, the...

Sep 22 '19

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Thanks! I never realised there were two versions of the ed...

Sep 21 '19

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Paul Michaels

Jun 28 '20

Configuration and Dependency Injection

#configuration #dependencyinjection #csharp

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Paul Michaels

Jan 26 '20

An ADR Visual Studio Extension – Sub Projects

#extensions #visualstudio

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Paul Michaels

Jan 22 '20

Working out when something broke using Git Bisect and Git Log

#git

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Paul Michaels

Jan 17 '20

Creating a Basic Web Site from an Asp.Net Core Empty Project

#aspnetcore #dotnet #csharp #javascript

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Paul Michaels

Jan 11 '20

An ADR Visual Studio Extension – Dependency Injection

#visualstudio #csharp #extensions

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Paul Michaels

Jan 8 '20

An ADR Visual Studio Extension – Listing and Reading the files

#visualstudio #csharp #extensions

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Paul Michaels

Jan 5 '20

I wrote a book - here's what I learned

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Paul Michaels

Jan 3 '20

An ADR Visual Studio Extension – Refactoring a Visual Studio Extension

#visualstudio #csharp #extensions

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Paul Michaels

Dec 25 '19

Fault Resilience in Web Calls Using Polly

#csharp

4 min read

Paul Michaels

Dec 22 '19

Manually Adding DbContext for an Integration Test

#csharp #testing #entityframeworkcore

2 min read

Paul Michaels

Dec 9 '19

Building a list with Asp.Net Core

#aspnetcore #html #javascript #jquery

3 min read

Paul Michaels

Dec 4 '19

Create and Test an MSix Installation

#desktop #msix

2 min read

Paul Michaels

Nov 27 '19

Running a script as part of an msix package

#help

1 min read

Paul Michaels

Nov 27 '19

A C# Programmer's Guide to Installing, Running and Messaging with RabbitMQ

#csharp #messagequeue #rabbitmq

6 min read

Paul Michaels

Nov 25 '19

Upgrade a .Net Framework WPF Application to .Net Core 3.x

#dotnet #desktop #wpf

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Paul Michaels

Nov 11 '19

MSix Packaging Project

#deployment #desktop #winforms #wpf

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Paul Michaels

Oct 26 '19

Console Games - Snake - Part 5 (Score)

#csharp #gamedev

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Paul Michaels

Oct 19 '19

Console Games - Snake - Part 4 (Collision Detection)

#gamedev #csharp

3 min read

Paul Michaels

Oct 18 '19

Console Games - Snake - Part 3 (Introducing a game timer)

#gamedev #csharp

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Paul Michaels

Oct 13 '19

Console Games - Snake - Part 2

#gamedev #csharp

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Paul Michaels

Oct 8 '19

Console Games - Snake - Part 1

#gamedev #csharp

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Paul Michaels

Oct 2 '19

Writing a game in a console application - Part 0

#gamedev #csharp #visualbasic

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Paul Michaels

Sep 23 '19

Using Blazor Components

#blazor #csharp

2 min read

Paul Michaels

Sep 19 '19

An ADR Visual Studio Extension – Creating a Visual Studio Extension to Scrape the Solution and List all Items

#csharp #extensions #architecture

4 min read

Paul Michaels

Sep 14 '19

Unit Testing With Entity Framework and Entity Framework Core 2.1

#unittesting #entityframework #dotnet

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Paul Michaels

Sep 6 '19

Creating a Car Game in React - Part 6 - Adding High Scores

#gamedev #react #azure #dotnet

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Paul Michaels

Sep 3 '19

Creating a Car Game in React - Part 5 - Levels and Time

#react #gamedev

3 min read

Paul Michaels

Aug 31 '19

Sorry if you've heard this one before

#jokes

1 min read

Paul Michaels

Aug 28 '19

Setting up Entity Framework Core for a Console Application - One Error at a Time

4 min read

Paul Michaels

Aug 25 '19

Creating a Car Game in React - Part 4 - Score

#react #gamedev

3 min read

Paul Michaels

Aug 20 '19

Suggestions for a blogging platform

#discuss #blog

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Paul Michaels

Aug 18 '19

Rules and Tips for Programming and Development

#jokes #tips

3 min read

Paul Michaels

Aug 16 '19

Creating a Car Game in React - Part 3 - Collision

#react #gamedev

4 min read

Paul Michaels

Aug 13 '19

Creating a Car Game in React - Part 2 - Steering and Obstacles

4 min read

Paul Michaels

Aug 8 '19

Creating a Scheduled Azure Function

#azure #function #schedule

3 min read

Paul Michaels

Aug 5 '19

Separating Data Access in Asp.Net Core 2

#aspnetcore20 #identity #dataaccess

3 min read

Paul Michaels

Aug 2 '19

Creating a Car Game in React - Part 1 - Drawing and Moving

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Paul Michaels

Jul 28 '19

Using View Models in Blazor

#blazor #viewmodel #dependencyinjection

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Paul Michaels

Jul 28 '19

React Tips: 2 - Binding an Event Handler

#binding #react #eventhandler #tips

2 min read

Paul Michaels

Jul 24 '19

React Tips: 1 – Starting React on a Different Port

#react #tips

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