In C# version 10, support for file scoped namespaces was added. This allows us to eliminate more boilerplate from our classes and also get rid of some extra unneeded identation. Unfortunately, when you create a new C# class in Visual Studio 2022, the template still uses the old namespace declaration style. I don’t like that, and if you found this blogpost, neither do you!

Thankfully, changing this is not hard.

Azure DevOps seems to be getting quite popular. All .NET projects I have worked on last couple of years use it, which is quite understandable since it is made and maintained by Microsoft. But also in the world of Java/Kotlin, Azure DevOps is becoming an excellent choice. Maybe Microsoft loves Java after all! A DevOps service isn’t a DevOps service without some solid CI/CD tooling. Azure DevOps’s CI/CD tooling is called Azure Pipelines. So how do you set up an Azure Pipeline for your Kotlin project? Fortunately, its quite simple.