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The options for pushing your .NET Core application to the cloud are not lacking depending on what IDE or editor you have in front of you. Visual Studio has a rich GUI interface with choices to pick pursuant to the architecture of your app - Web, Containers, SQL Server, Registries, etc.; and for years has excelled at delivering a full experience. VS Code offers a great Azure extension pack and in its own fashion delivers an experience to publish your web application directly to an AppService, Container and/or Registry too. If the command line experience is more your "thing", the Azure CLI is available and any resource publish option can be had through the az command. But what if...

Many years ago I wanted to jump into a project in open source but had no idea where to start. I had worked with node.js, .NET and some other web-based technology but wasn't sure where to start and GitHub was new to me. Ironically, I fell onto Omnisharp and the .NET Core yo aspnet projects through my Microsoft MVP Summit meetings that year. Flicking through Twitter, as one does, I came across an announcement from a friend Tierny (@bitandbang) where he had started a CLI tool for node.js projects called "good-first-issue" to find random GitHub Issues for projects submitted to his tool. There are a ton of open source projects asking for help on issues that have a...