Patrick Christensen BuriedStPatrick

Seldom will you get worse documentation than trying to use the Azure ServiceBus emulator in a real-world scenario. To spare you the frustrations, here's how I translated their docker-compose.yaml reference implementation to something you can actually use as a test fixture in a .NET project.

1. Set up

First, we need 2 containers, one for MSSQL, one for the ServiceBus emulator. ServiceBus emulator uses MSSQL as a backing storage solution. To make things neater, we'll also follow the example docker-compose.yaml file and add an internal network between the two so they don't need to communicate directly over the host's network.

ServiceBus emulator's official docker-compose.yaml example file uses azure-sqledge, but it makes no sense to use since it is deprecated and is being phased out. The MSSQL server image works just fine.

1a. Build a network

This guide is mostly for my own sanity and help me troubleshoot down-the-line. Feel free to read along, though. Some things may be misconceptions, I'm just trying as best I can.

Introduction

Pre-requisites:

This is Arch, btw.
SystemD-based system. You wouldn't be reading this if you knew how to run anything else.

The goals for my system:

Installing .NET & PowerShell properly on Linux by ignoring Microsoft's bad suggestions

Set the following variables:

export DOTNET_ROOT=$HOME/.dotnet
export PATH=$HOME/.dotnet/:$PATH
export PATH=$HOME/.dotnet/tools/:$PATH

Install Install Cogin QueueExplorer on Arch Linux

The guide on Cogin's website for installing on "Linux" actually means installing on a Debian-based system. This guide Arch-ifies the process. This could be made into an AUR package, but I don't have the knowledge or time to maintain such a package, so here's the (hopefully) not outdated way of installing it.

1. Install the pre-requisite software.

sudo pacman -S wine cabextract

Controlling Philips Hue with DMX via QLC+

Should work on Windows, Linux and MacOS. I've only tested Windows so far.

Pre-requisites

[NodeJS][1].
[Philips Hue Bridge][4].
One or more Philips Hue products connected to the Hue Bridge.
Your computer should be running on the same network as your Hue devices.

Forwarding CLI commands to APX run tools

VanillaOS's APX tool is quite neat since you can export desktop-entries with apx export <program>. However, if you like to run CLI tools on your host system without apx enter it's a bit trickier. Here's a little guide on how you can get around this using she-bang scripts.

Steps

Create a folder somewhere in your home-directory structure that you'd like to contain shebang scripts. I'm just going to use ~/scripts as a starting point.
Add the folder to your shell's PATH environment variable:

Installing QueueExplorer using Flatpak

Installing QueueExplorer on Linux can be a pain. I've found the official guide inadequate as it assumes you're using the apt package manager to install Wine and so on. It's just a bad install script.

Instead, let's install using a universal approach with Flatpak and Bottles. This guide assumes you already have Flatpak installed on your system.

Install Bottles using flatpak

flatpak install com.usebottles.bottles

Best Practices

Enable nullable

There's really no reason not to enable Nullable. It's enabled by default on .NET 6.0 projects for a reason. It gently pushes you into taking into account times where your input or output could be null by warning you of potential dangers.

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">
...

	echo "------------------------"
	echo "--- Loading autoexec ---"
	echo "------------------------"

	// -- Viewmodel
	viewmodel_offset_x 2
	viewmodel_offset_y -2
	viewmodel_offset_z -2
	viewmodel_fov 68
	// cl_bob_lower_amt 30

	# Get all PackageReferences from a project or solution
	# Does NOT include transient dependencies
	# Example A: Get-PackageReference ./MySolution.sln
	# Example B: Get-ChildItem -Recursive *.csproj \| Get-PackageReference
	function Get-PackageReference {
	[CmdletBinding()]
	param (
	[Parameter(
	Mandatory = $true,
	ValueFromPipeline = $true,