Essential Tools to find bugs... before they get to production

Developers now have access to free and inexpensive developer tools that can help find and fix many common application problems. These new APM tools are now an essential part of every developer’s tool set. Show me the tools!

More than one order matters

Order matters. In real life when you’re in a library or a city or in your kitchen. And in software development. Order, the right order, helps understanding. Where there is order orientation is easier. ...

Create Node Task for Visual Studio Code

I love the new Visual Studio Code editor/IDE. It’s fast, simple, lightweight, and an overall pleasure to work with. I love being able to just “open a folder” and work with files directly – all while getting ...

Bins...

Many thanks for all of your feedback. I’ve listened. We now have - http://binaryrefinery.com/b... a really nice web-implementation (if I say so myself) of the collection app. X platform :-) ...

Review: Chicago Coder Conference

On May 14th and 15th, 2015 the Chicago Coder Conference was held at the UBS building in downtown Chicago. PSC Group was a sponsor of the event and had a fair sized contingency in attendance. This post ...

Wpf TreeView MVVM view model

You can find my implementation of an MVVM TreeView model for WPF on github. Link: https://github.com/rob-blac... ...

Lightweight Linq style enumerators for Java

I have written a lightweight linq style enumerator for java. You can find it on github. Link: https://github.com/rob-blac... ...

Indexing a one dimensional array by n dimensions

There's an example on how to index a 1-dimensional array by n-dimensions on github. Link: https://github.com/rob-blac... ...

Network programming with reactive extensions

I've written some examples of using reactive extensions for network communication. You can find the project on github. Link: https://github.com/rob-blac... ...

Monads in C#

I've written some example moands with practical examples. Checkout the github project. Link: https://github.com/rob-blac... ...

Application Insights

Data is a concept that no longer needs an extensive introduction to portray its glory. While each business takes advantage of it in their own way, I have come to know it from an E-Commerce point of view. ...

Advice For Speakers: Know Your Point

It has happened to all of us. You go to a conference and sit down in a session that has a great title and abstract only to sit through a long winded talk that has nothing to do what you were sold. As a ...

Synology DS215j update results in read only access

Saturday morning I received a mail from my parents NAS (Synology DS215j) about a reboot after a system update. A few hours later my father called me, mentioning that he cannot write to the NAS anymore. ...

I am a Developer Turned Marketer

Hello everyone! I hope you have been doing well. Over the past few years since Matt and his amazing team has taken over Geekwithblogs.net, I have had a few changes in my day-to-day activities. About one ...

Joined the 100K Recognition Points Club in the ASP.NET Forums Hall of Fame

I can't believed I will reach this boundary. Despite all the busy stuff that's going on in my life and at work, I still manage to contribute to the ASP.NET community and helped thousands of people resolving ...

Dave’s Guitar String Log

A couple of years ago I bought a new guitar (a 6 string Gibson Songwriter) and wanted to find out what strings I really liked.. So I started a log and began buying a variety of strings.. Some on sale, ...

How do I set a trace in SQL Server?

Think of this as a lightweight alternative to SQL profiler. Under the hood of SQL profiler, there exists SQL Trace -- which provides a collection of stored procedures to generate trace info. Cut and paste ...

Undiscovereddev.com

Becky's Blog has moved to http://www.undiscovereddev.com.

SSAS Tabular–per table LastProcessed dates

I saw a question yesterday on the MSDN forums ask how to go about exposing the LastProcessed datetime per table. Marco has a great post here (https://www.sqlbi.com/arti... ...

SQL Server 2014 Standard and Enterprise Licensing

Sometimes customer is confused about the latest core based license for SQL Server 2014 Enterprise or Standard Version because previously it was Processor based license till SQL Server 2008. Many queries ...

Actors in a IODA Architecture by Example

The IODA Architecture is supposed to make software design easier and improve code readability for about any problem domain. I’ve tried to show an example of that in my previous article. It was a larger ...

Microsoft Ignite 2015–Microsoft’s Message

I was in Chicago last week for Microsoft Ignite, the second major Microsoft conference in as many weeks (Build was the week before). I had a fantastic time and wanted to share some thoughts on the conference ...

Mastering Elasticsearch - Second Edition by Rafał Kuć and Marek Rogoziński Packt Publishing Book Review

It is hard to underestimate the importance of the search nowadays. It probably even occurs without being noticed, but try to count how many times a day you tried to search for a product online, search ...

Microsoft Ignite 2015–What’s Its Purpose?

I was in Chicago last week for Microsoft Ignite, the second major Microsoft conference in as many weeks (Build was the week before). I had a fantastic time and wanted to share some thoughts on the conference ...

Treat technology like your 401k!

What is the first thing every financial advisor usually tells you? Diversification of your funds is key to success!!! I look at technology the same way. Why have all your eggs in one basket?Statistics ...

ObjectSharp’s At the Movies Event

It’s that time of year again! ObjectSharp’s At the Movies event is right around the corner, and we can’t wait to share all of the good things coming up in our industry this year! I really enjoy being a ...

Microsoft Ignite

This past week I had the opportunity to attend my very first Microsoft conference, Microsoft Ignite in Chicago, IL. Aside for the intimidating size of McCormick Place which played host to 23,000 attendees ...

Different ways to get Distinct Values from a List<T> using LINQ

This article talks about the different scenarios regarding filtering distinct values from the List<T>. One practical example is if you have a list of products and wanted to get the distinct values ...

Serializers in .NET. v.2

[v.2.9.0 2015-08-19] I've decided to keep live the first version of this post. It is interesting how tests evolve and how results change. V.1.0.10 see here. The v.2 was inspired by OniBait, thanks a lot! ...

Understanding $q in Angular.js

When I'm working in my project, as well as development "sx.wizard" toolkit, I need to deal with asynchronous operation. For example, in "sx.wizard", template for each steps are loaded in parallel asynchronously. ...

Standards for developing flexible, durable and sustainable HTML and CSS

Code developed by teams in particular, needs to be consistent. This applies equally to individual developers if maintenance in the future is to be as efficient as possible. The CodeGuide outlines standards ...

Reflections on INETA

It was announced this week that INETA, the International .NET Association, was shutting down operations. While some of us knew it would come to this eventually, its given many of us pause to reflect on ...

Attending Build 2015–What It Meant To Me

Being able to attend //build/ last week was a dream come true. In the 18 years that I have worked in the industry, this was the first time I was able to attend a major Microsoft conference. In the past, ...

Programming Problems and Finding Solutions

It’s been years (8 years to be exact as of this writing) since I am involved in various forums such as (forums.asp.net), (codeasp.net/forums), (aspsnippets.com/forums), (msforums.ph), (aspforums.net/forums), ...

Dynamically Adding and Deleting Rows in GridView and Saving All Rows at Once

Few years back I wrote a series of blog posts demonstrating how to add dynamic TextBox, dynamic DropDownList and a combination of both controls in GridView control. I’ve posted another couple of posts ...

Customer AIF web service sample code

In the blog post we will consume create, update, find and findAll operation

IODA Architecture by Example

The IODA Architecture to me is fundamental. But as many fundamental notions it might be a bit abstract. That's why I want to provide an example of how to design and implement software based on it. I keep ...

Build 2015: Day 2 Keynote

As with any second day keynote, day two of Build had less fan fare and new announcements than yesterday. Today it was all about doubling down on the message and showing a little more. The one message that ...

Progress in the adoption of CM principals!

As a CM professional it's tough to know that you are making a difference sometimes. There primary indicator for me that I'm doing well is the urgency level of the issues/problems that I'm asked to work ...

Build 2015: Day 1 Keynote

Build is always one of the most exciting Microsoft conferences. Have of the fun is trying to guess what will and won’t be announced. Will the analysts be right or will there predictions be off in left ...

Enable Breadcrumb / Navigate Up on SharePoint 2013

SharePoint 2010 has Breadcrumb option which helps user to know in which level he is in. Especially when user is in 4-5 level deep sub folder on any library, the Breadcrumb icon shows the level clearly. ...

Deploying an Azure Web Site using TFS Build vNext

Moved to http://blog.ehn.nu/2015/04/29/deploying-an-azure-web-site-using-tfs-build-vnext/

The IODA Architecture

The common architectural patterns are all pretty much the same. Layered architecture, MVC, Hexagonal architecture, Onion Architecture, Clean architecture… they all do two things: Define domains of responsibility ...

Obstructive Developers

Tldr: Don't accept obstructive behaviour as the norm, get to the root of it because there is probably an important reason.Developers are often seen as being obstructive, it's pretty much part of our stereotype. ...

Microservices

I’ve heard a lot about microservices lately and I am trying to get an understanding of it. How does one apply the ideas and concepts? Martin Fowler in his keynote (link below) said microservices is a subset ...

Sweet Aspects

When a module has a single responsibility that means it’s focused on producing the behavior of a single aspect. That’s how I described the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) in my previous article. ...

Hosting LINQ to Twitter on GitHub

Today, I finished migrating LINQ to Twitter from CodePlex to GitHub. I was happy with CodePlex for a long time. However, it just hasn’t been kept up to date. There hasn’t been any activity or improvements ...

The Single Responsibility Principle under the microscope

It’s equally important and mysterious: the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP). And even though its originator Robert C. Martin tried to explain it again, I feel there is something lacking. Some concreteness, ...

Xamarin.Android– Wearable Demo Project is now on Github

I’ve decided to put the demo project on github in case someone would want to see and run the demo project I’ve created about syncing data between wearable and handheld device. Here’s the link: https://github.com/proudmon... ...

BIDS Helper 1.7.0 released

A few days ago the BIDS Helper team released of v1.7.0 which you can download from here: https://bidshelper.codeplex... This version comes with a few bug fixes, and some new functionality, but ...

DZone Most Valuable Blogger (MVB)

Yes I am one of the MVB now! I am honored and feel awesome about it. :D What is MVB? "DZone's Most Valuable Blogger program brings together a group of highly talented bloggers, authors, and technologists ...