If you have a Virtual Machine (VM) in Microsoft Azure that has a specific configuration, it used to be difficult to clone that VM. You had to sysprep the…

In SSMS, there's a Generate Script utility (read: only available under version 2008 and up) . Here are the steps you would need to take to make use of the…

Teach Your Kid to Code Coming to Philly.NET Tomorrow night (Wednesday, May 21) my son and I will be at presenting Teach Your Kid to Code. Bring your kid…

Sweden Azure Group (SWAG) has the privilege of welcoming Michele Laroux Bustamente and Maartin Balliauw to present sessions at our meeting this Thursday.…

I was thrilled to be able to attend TechEd North America 2014 in Houston last week. I got to go to Orlando in 2008, and since then I’ve had to settle for…

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Looking at a typical Power Query query you will noticed that it's made up of a number of small steps. As an example take a look at the query I did in my.…

In the TechED North America Microsoft announced another cache service in Azure which is the Redis Cache Service. This is the 4th cache service Microsoft…

Recently I designed and implemented a large Office 365 environment, part of it was a Hybrid Exchange 2013 server that should also serve as a central SMTP…

The Case Of Slow Visual Studio Startup On my home machine VS2013 starts up in 2s from my SSD. But on another Windows 7 machine it takes over 13s. I never…

I was recently tasked to review the performance of a data intense desktop application that uses WPF 4.5 for front end and streams data from the server…

So I’m going to do a three posts on Pair Programming. This first post discusses, from a business point of view, why Pair Programming is a good idea. The…

This is the last in a three part post on pair programming. The first posts described the benefits of pair programing and how to make pairing part of your…

Today Microsoft announced the new service tiers in Azure SQL Database in the blog in preview phase. Currently SQL Database offers two type of service: web…

At http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a921b98e-9430-4be2-bf53-1169e12bdb50, there is a free add-on for Visual Studio which will check CSS for…

I added a lengthy answer to the StackOverflow question on switching focus to an iFrame when using Selenium to automate a UI for testing and thought it…

In my previous post I stated that NuGet solves a number of problems when working with open source libraries. These problems were finding, downloading,…

So I want to write a post on how to create your own NuGet packages. Before I do that I think I better first do a prerequisite post on what NuGet is, how…

What Every Developer Must Know About Fast Garbage Collection (+ more) .NET is like Java a very productive environment. The increased convenience comes at…

Chris Webb and Matt Mason have both blogged about formulas for generating a date table using PowerQuery, but both of these posts focus on the standard…