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[…]
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Trying out C# 7.0
C# 7.0 has a number of new features to simplify code and increase performance. A nice new feature is types, which make it easy to have multiple results. Another is pattern matching, which simplifies code that is conditional base on[…]
Read moreRunning ASP.NET 5 on Cloud9
So you want to experiment with ASP.NET 5, but you don’t have a development and hosting environment available to work with, you can use Cloud9 IDE. From Wikipedia: “Cloud9 IDE is a freeware online integrated development environment. It supports hundreds[…]
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 moreMicrosoft DevDays 2011– I’ll be there
This year, I’ll be at the annual Microsoft DevDays in The Netherlands where you can ask me anything on web development. My base of operation at the conference will be somewhere in the ‘Ask-the-Experts’ area. Though you may also[…]
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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These are the sessions for the OpenSpaceCode day.
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