When I started my professional software development career, it was in a small team of developers. Every member of the team was usually working on their own project, and sometimes we worked together. A regular topic of discussion at the[…]
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Category: Visual Studio
Publishing and running your ASP.NET Core project on Linux
Given that .NET Core, as a runtime, is a both open source and multiplatform it’s easy to understand the desire to run your ASP.NET Core project on a Linux host. Practically always you can find a Linux webhost cheaper than[…]
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Building Azure Functions in C# with Visual Studio Code
Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that enables you to run code on-demand without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure. This means that you can use Azure Functions to run a script or piece of code in response[…]
Read moreLoading large solutions in Visual Studio
Visual Studio 2017 has a new option to load solutions faster. This is especially useful if your solution has several dozen projects. The option can be found under Tools > Options > Project and Solutions. As you can see, Lightweight[…]
Read moreDeploy website to Windows Azure with Web.Config transformations
Web.config transformation is a simple and powerful inclusion in .NET 4.0 for generating configuration files for different environments. If you publish from Visual Studio, web.config transformation is very easy and painless. Publishing from Visual Studio to a Windows Azure hosted[…]
Read moreNice things to know when you’re doing Windows 8 app development in html and JavaScript
Recently, I had my first Windows 8 app going through the process of certification for the Windows Store. Certification did not going smoothly the first time. For a Windows 8 app to be certified, it has to meet a number[…]
Read moreSending Tweets with C#
If you ever want to send updates to Twitter from C# it fairly easy to do. Recently, we added the option to send a tweet when someone registers for our upcoming dotNed user group meeting. Below is the client[…]
Read moreWhy Silverlight?
Here’s a video I shot at the Silverlight panel discussion at TechEd Europe 2009 in Berlin. Question was: what is the problem that Silverlight is trying to solve? From what I could get out of the answers, the idea is[…]
Read moreAdd bindings to a website (quickly)
As you know, IIS 7 is a powerful webserver. Just last month, after only three months of development time, we deployed the new website http://www.beurs.nl/ on an IIS 7 platform (with SQL Server 2008 back end). This site, with over[…]
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