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!

ReadableExpressions Debugger Visualizers now in the Visual Studio Gallery

Bowing to vast, popular demand (a comment on the blog), I've now put an installer for the ReadableExpressions Debugger Visualizers on the Visual Studio Gallery. Installation copies the Visualizers into ...

We Got A HoloLens!!!!!

I haven't been this excited in a long time. Yesterday we received our HoloLens Development Kit at AJi and John and I did a quick unboxing video. I can't wait to build my first application for it (once ...

BUILD 2016 Thoughts: Home Sweet Windows

It is that time of year again where Microsoft developers gather in San Francisco to hear the direction that Microsoft is moving and the tools they are offering to get us there. The big theme this year ...

TFS 2015 Upgrade Issues with Diskspace

Problem: TFS Collection Move, Upgrade would need heaps of memory on tempdb Resolution: If you are upgrading or moving your Large Tfs Collection you might get the Error Exception Message: TF30042: The database ...

Pig Latin Bot

The blog post, Botiquette, explained how Microsoft released the Bot Framework at the Build conference and referenced how you can find the Bot Framework and associated documentation. It’s easy reading, ...

Bash on Windows–What it Means for Chocolatey

Microsoft announced the most amazing thing at //build/ yesterday, Bash on Windows 10. Not some sort of VM or container, but running native ELF binaries on Windows under an Ubuntu subsystem. Let me say ...

Botiquette

Today, at Build 2016, Microsoft revealed a new AI tool for developers called the Bot Framework. The Bot Framework allows developers to write software bots that interact with people (and other bots). Essentially ...

Caching Google Analytics code to improve PageSpeed

If you use Google Analytics on a site and use Google PageSpeed to optimise performance, one of the odd things you find is that Google’s own analytics code gets flagged under the ‘Leverage browser caching’ ...

Accessing SharePoint Online Data Directly From SQL Server and REST

If you have ever worked with SharePoint, either on premises or online, and ever needed to fetch records or manage Lists programmatically, you know how hard of a task this can be. Learning the SharePoint ...

TFS 2012 to TFS 2015 Upgrade Issues

If you are using Old Version of TFS (2012,1013) and if you want to Upgrade to TFS 2015 you have several options based on your requirements. 1. Move Environment and Upgrade https://blogs.msdn.microsof... ...

Script Browser & Script Analyzer

Good morning! I randomly stumbled across these tools (Download link: https://www.microsoft.com/e... If you work with PowerShell scripting a lot these could be useful! ...

Accessing No-SQL data from SQL Server 2016 and R Services

In this post, I will show how to easily extend SQL Server 2016 R Services to consume No-SQL data in real-time, such as Azure Tables. This example could easily be modified to access other No-SQL services ...

Celebrating 5 Years With Chocolatey!

Chocolatey turned 5 years old recently! I committed the first lines of Chocolatey code on March 22, 2011. At that time I never imagined that Chocolatey would grow into a flourishing community and a tool ...

Fun with Excel, ShellExecuteEx and CreateProcess

So I’m working on a project that requires that we create a custom URL Protocol so that when users click on a link in the web browser, an agent on their machine opens a file in the appropriate application ...

Moving to GitHub Pages

I've been blogging here on GWB for almost 10 years and I've seen this community grow and change during that time. I've enjoyed my time here but, for me, it's time to move on.In that light, I'm moving to ...

List.js

List.js does some neat things for it’s tiny footprint. Sorting, filtering and searching lists and tables is really easy. Plus it’s available via CDN. http://www.listjs.com/ ...

O365 Selective licensing script

I finally digged-in and finished this script. It runs based on a CSV file allowing you to specify what user gets what modality enabled. I should probably start a git to manage my scripts better, but that'll ...

Beware of SortedSet<T> and a custom Comparer

When dealing with custom data structures funny things can happen. This is especially true if multiple threads can mutate state and you have several locks playing in the mix. Doing a code review is quite ...

Stored Procedure Call Failing, but nothing in Profiler?

So, we recently had a chestnut at work. We have some db-based error logging that was reporting a string truncation error upon calling a specific sproc. Now, the error logging is written out by the application ...

Spark.ml Pipelines QuickRef

When constructing Spark Machine Learning Pipelines - I find it really helpful to maintain a bird's eye view of the various transformers and estimators available.in a nutshell: fit trainingData (train a ...

Enterprise Integration Patterns

System Architecture patternsN-TierEvent-Driven - Mediator / BrokerMicrokernelMicroServi... - MVC / MVP / MVVMserver - RPC / Remoting / WS / SOA / RESTSpace-BasedSOA PatternsFoundational ...

Hive - HQL query over MapReduce

Overview Developed by Facebook HiveQL is a SQL-like framework for data warehousing on top of MapReduce over HDFS. converts SQL query into a series of jobs for execution on a Hadoop cluster. Organizes HDFS ...

Integrating ASP.NET Core Configuration in MVC 4

ASP.NET Core 1.0 (what had been called ASP.NET 5) is a complete redesign of ASP.NET that is open-source and cross-platform. Since this is a redesign of the framework, it comes with a lot of architectural ...

Implement iCal Subscription Service through in Node.js

Worktile Pro contains three main modules: task, calendar and drive. In calendar module user can create events such as meeting, appointment with participants, location, resources and recurrence. It also ...

Integrating ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection in MVC 4

ASP.NET Core 1.0 (what had been called ASP.NET 5) is a complete redesign of ASP.NET that is open-source and cross-platform. Since this is a redesign of the framework, it comes with a lot of architectural ...

Big Data File Format Zoo

Big Data has a plethora of Data File Formats - its important to understand their strengths and weaknesses. Most explorers start out with some NoSQL exported JSON data. However, specialized data structures ...

ASP.NET Core and MVC 6 Lessons Learned

I recently finished a small website using ASP.NET Core and MVC 6 - I only scratched the surface of the framework, but here's some gotchas and things I picked up along the way. If you're entirely unfamiliar ...

Numeric Range and DateRange functions for Sql Server

Here is a surprisingly effective way of generating integer sequences, and date ranges on sql server. This source code is also available at githubFirst we need a function that generates the numbers from ...

Advanced CSS Selectors you never knew about

Great article about the CSS selectors you never knew existed, really. https://medium.com/the-web-... ...

Why A Growing E-Commerce Website Needs A Dedicated Server?

For an e-commerce startup, the first and foremost thing is to have a server. To create an ideal business with high volume of e-commerce transactions, the servers that brings a lot of ease are dedicated ...

Pay Attention to Use ES6 Arrow Function with 'arguments'

There is an enhancement in ECMAScript 6 named "Arrow Functions", which likes lambda expression in C#, allow us to define a function within less lines of code. I like this new feature and began to use it ...

What Factors Are Driving Data Center Growth in India?

In India, billions of rupees are spent on data centre infrastructure to cater to the ever-growing needs of businesses. Choosing the right data center infrastructure has become far more difficult for the ...

Easy Handle Leak Detection Without A Debugger

Finding handle leaks in all processes at once for all handle types without a debugger is no longer impossible. Since Windows 8.1 (0?) each handle creation and close call is instrumented with an ETW event. ...

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Ways to Migrate from Parse Push to Amazon SNS

As you might definitely know, Parse reported that it will resign its operations by January 28, 2017. To offer clients some assistance with migrating their Parse Core resources to another facilitated supplier ...

Define a Class in Multiple Files in Node.js

Features always grows much faster than we expect. When I am build Worktile Pro I created a JavaScript file contains all business logic in class for the task module. But after several months development ...

PowerShell: Adding Windows Version to Desktop

I’m forever looking this up on the web then having to use Reedit to hack my registry so I thought it was about time I wrote a PS script to do it for me. And so here it is! Get-PSDrive CD c:\ $RegKey = ...

Better single-page apps with ASP.NET MVC 6 - Steve Sanderson NDC2016

I watched the very interesting talk by Steve Sanderson (KnockoutJs creator) from NDC 2016 yesterday and took some notes and screenshots that are worth sharing. Watch the video, but here is my summary. ...

Spotting a Missing Object

There are various tell-tale signs when a system is missing an object, and I spotted some of them recently while writing the ReadableExpressions library. ReadableExpressions parses an Expression tree using ...

Catching Up with UWP in LINQ to Twitter

LINQ to Twitter recently released as v4.x, where one of its main goals was to support Universal Windows Platform development. LINQ to Twitter has supported many platforms and UWP is a natural evolution. ...

Do you understand REM and EM units?

In a post “REM vs EM – The Great Debate”, Zell Liew gives a thorough explanation of Rem and Em units and how they can be used. Well worth reading if you’ve ever had issues using them or wondered how they ...

sql server won't start as clustered resource after service pack upgrade

I updated my production SQL Server 2012 cluster from SP1 to SP3 CU1 last night and had to spend an hour trying to figure out why the SQL Server Engine service wouldn't start for one of my two instances. ...

How can I get a list of what windows patches were installed?

For an effective, simple HTML formatted static list go into an MSDOS command window and type: wmic qfe list full /format:htable > c:\winpatches.htm

Friendly, Readable Expression Trees

tl;dr: ReadableExpressions is an extension method which makes a readable string from Expression trees that's on NuGet and GitHub. There's a set of Debug Visualizers which use it in the Visual Studio Gallery. ...

Lock Pages In Memory

SQL Server together with other RDBMS, are the most memory consuming applications on our servers, and this is because, RDBMs usually cache objects into the memory to take advantage of the speed that physical ...

How to hide control if DataContext is null in WPF?

The best way is to bind the Visibility property to use TargetNullValue.Note:The other-way would be to use a IValueConverter and Toggle the Visibility inside the Convert method<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding ...

Virtual machines for testing browsers on Windows, Mac and Linux

Microsoft now have a whole range of virtual machines for testing IE6 through to Edge, on Windows, Mac and Linux. https://dev.windows.com/en-... ...

The Case of Slow WPF Rendering in a WinForms Application

I had an interesting case where a new WPF control was added to a legacy WinForms application. The WPF control worked perfectly in a test application but for some strange reason it was very slow in final ...

How to hire a WPF developer?

Lately people were asking me, what is the minimal list of things expected when you are looking for a WPF programmer. So, I managed to compile a list, hope this helps1) XAML Basics & Basic controls ...