In the previous two posts, we tackled the way to start with Dapr and how to call services. In this one, we will see how we can leverage the Dapr .NET SDK to handle service to service calls.

• Getting started with Dapr for .NET Developers
• Using Service Invocation from Dapr .NET SDK

In the previous post “Getting started with Dapr for .NET Developers“ we have seen how easy it was to expose a web API written in .NET and the power of exposing it through Dapr sidecar. In this post, we are looking at the different possible ways to invoke that service.

Dapr for .NET Developers is a great book, read in a weekend, to start gaining an understanding of what Dapr is and especially for .NET Developers. In this post, we will see how you can use .NET to create a service and run it with Dapr and what does this provides.

In my humble opinion it is definitely not a good idea! Why?

1. It is brittle test because it depends to the CPU load of the machine running the test. Maybe it runs fine on your development machine, and will for sure from time to time fail on your build server because of the load on the server. Continue reading

I previously talked about “Running Github Hubot on a Windows machine”, “Using Github hubot and Appharbor service hook to get deployment status in Campfire/HipChat rooms” or even “Starting TeamCity builds from HipChat using Github Hubot”.

All those solution rely on an external chat service either Altassian HipChat or 37signals Campfire.

After several issues using Windows XP with ATI Drivers I decided to update to Vista my new professional notebook, a great HP nw 8440 with 4Gb memory :-). The update went as I thought, I was not able to reboot on Vista, after trying to fix it till 2AM with the tools on Vista DVD, it was without any luck and as I am not a real fan about updating OS, I decided to do a full install of Vista. So my dear friends of ecenter solutions, or what ever ;-), you will have to try yourself the update or to do another full installation. I see your face Bojan ;-)

To restore needed files from the old notebook installation I used Acronis True Image Workstation (offered by Acronis, Thanks). And I have to say that I really liked the way to mount an image and browse the file as read only. A great tool.

After mono session I have been interviewed in French by Patrice from Wygwam. You might find the interview on the following page. And all the video they have recorded al Wygwam TV.

This morning I had a strange crash of ASP.NET Development Server, it is the first time that it happens and I was really stressed about it.

With debugger I got: “An unhandled exception of type ‘System.StackOverflowException’ occurred in Unknown Module.”

I just made my first checkins on CodePlex for the project Tech Head Brothers Authoring.

CodePlex is REALLY COOL, having an access to a Team Server from Visual Studio 2005 is just great. I like it very much.