Logging is essential to the support of any piece of code. In this post I will cover two approaches to logging in Azure Functions: TraceWriter and log4net.

SQL Server has a built-in data type that automatically marks changes to rows. This data type is “rowversion”. Formerly this data type was named “timestamp”, and Microsoft recommends you start using…

Most people – even the overwhelming majority of programmers – would say that the main activity of a software developer is “writing source code“. But this is a (though quite understandable) misconce…

For the past year or so, Martin Fowler has included the pattern Model-View-Presenter, or MVP, in his upcoming addendum to Patterns of Enterprise Application Development. Due to apparent confusions …

In the previous post I had described the steps to secure your Windows Azure tokens and get the necessary Visual Studio templates as well as making your web application Azure ready by adding the clo…

It has been a few months since I installed Windows Live OneCare and results are mixed. For the most part it runs quietly in the background providing, at least I think, real-time protection. The pro…

The Toilet Example (c) Copyright 2005, Niclas Winquist 😉

Following the , there has been a whole host of announcements about the new features we’ll be seeing in.NET 4.0. I’d like to take a moment to look at some of the features that will be coming to VB.N…

When you think of augmented reality, one of the key elements to consider is object recognition technology, also known as object detection. This term refers to an ability to identify the form and sh…

I wanted to create a series of blog post that gets right to the point and is aimed specifically at Silverlight Developers. The most important things I want this series to answer is:

I wanted to use String.Format with parameters that can be null. Firstly i decided to put some conditional code like if(arg1!=null) but then desided to check, if it is handled automatically. And fro…

Here are the links from my May 12, 2008 presentation at the St. Louis C# User Group:

Over the past few months I’ve had 2 customers that have run into an scenario where the SharePoint 2013 web analytics usage reports have no data (all zeroes) in the reports. While working with some …

Problem Redirect the user to login page after a period of inactivity or when the session expires.

It’s been over 2 months since I last updated my blog. I have been busy; we got a new VP of IT and he made some changes and there are a bunch of stuff that’s getting rejigged and people moved, proje…

A plea out to all those who are using ASP.NET AJAX with sites on IIS7, either under Vista or Longhorn Server:

I finally decided to nose dive into the blogging arena. I couldn’t find a better time to start writing my first post, the Christmas Holidays. During the festive holidays, or should I say, time-off,…

Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 has been released yesterday, you can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=bc247d88-ddb6-4d4a-a595-8eee3556fe46 O…

Today I spent some time reviewing my Formal Logic course for my up coming exam. I came across a section that I have never really explored in any proper depth… the difference between a valid argumen…

While SQL Server security features continue to improve, hashing in SQL Server using native functions is simple, but not necessarily up to speed on the latest security specifications. The good news …