Tagged articles - CLI

Since December 2021 when Log4Shell vulnerabilty caused by popular package for logging in Log4j for Java was discovered here is raised certain level of awareness of using OpenSource packages in application. Because of these cases it is critical that you have indicator whether you are using a dependency with reported vulnerability before you make your application available for wide audience, practically before you do the production release...read more

Once .NET Core 2.1 SDK introduced support for global tools I wrote a brief article on how to create a simple global CLI tool in .NET Core Building advanced .NET Core Global Tool using CommandLineUtils package. While this is fair enough informations to kick-start you project and create a simple global tool to use from the command line, I found out there is more to it in order to have the tool built, published, distributed and used especially when you are dealing with real-life applications that need to have a CLI as a part of the solution. ...read more

As much as it is important for testing the functionality of the application, data seeding can also be used to pre-load some values like lookups not only to development and test environment but also to populate these values in production as well. Seeding of data can be done in several ways and in this article I will go through two ways of seeding data. Both of them have their pros and cons and it is up to you to pick the way you want to have your data pre-seeded in your application database. ...read more

Microsoft introduced a new feature called Global Tool with the new .NET Core release 2.1. Essentially, global tools are simple console applications which can be invoked from the console...read more