Github Actions with Jon Galloway

This time we have a special guest at Active Solution Stockholm office: Jon Galloway.

Jon is a Program Manager on the .NET team. He’s been developing software professionally since the late 1990’s, and over the years has written several books, popular .NET tutorials and samples, a top speaker on Microsoft Virtual Academy, and worked behind the scenes on large Microsoft keynote demonstrations. He’s helped run the Herding Code podcast for 10 years, and tweets as @jongalloway Blog: weblogs.asp.net/jongalloway

GitHub Actions is a powerful tool for automating workflows and building custom software development tools. We use them a lot on the .NET team at Microsoft, including validation and automation for pull requests on the .NET blog. In this presentation, we will explore how to write a useful GitHub Action using .NET, Copilot and the brand new Octokit SDK (built with Kiota). We'll live code an action, using Copilot to get around some of the quirks of both GitHub Actions and Octokit. I'll share some lessons I learned the hard way and show you how you can start automating your pull request workflow with C# code.