I came across this by accident the other day and thought it was really neat. So I wanted to share it to help karma balance my last post (more on that at…

If your website uses the AppPoolIdentity and requires access to the private key of an x509Certficate, you’ll need to grant the read permissions to the iis…

One of the first things you will want to do after installing visual studio is to set it up to automatically pull down the correct symbols for system…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

The Toilet Example (c) Copyright 2005, Niclas Winquist 😉 Mutex: Is a key to a toilet. One person can have the key – occupy the toilet – at the time. When…

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…

When you think of augmented reality, one of the key elements to consider is object recognition technology, also known as object detection. This term…

| | | 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 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…

Here are the links from my May 12, 2008 presentation at the St. Louis C# User Group: <table><tbody><tr><td>1.</td><td>VS 2008 Product…

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…

Problem Redirect the user to login page after a period of inactivity or when the session expires. Investigation A quick search on Google will find many…

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…

A plea out to all those who are using ASP.NET AJAX with sites on IIS7, either under Vista or Longhorn Server: I’ve been battling a strange issue with…

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…