Been meaning to blog about this topic for a while and it's an area that I've been wondering if it will come up in the future as a governance challenge for…

As many of my readers will know, I've been doing a lot of work around Hybrid integration solutions over the last few years involving Windows Azure Service…

On 16th Jan, the "Gu" announced several features in Windows Azure in his blog, one of them is "Website Staging Support ". With this feature we can deploy…

It should be obvious but we often forget the need to minimise page weight when working on responsive designs. Page weight has increased over the years to…

Moved to http://blog.ehn.nu/2014/01/15/creating-a-build-definition-using-the-tfs-2013-api/

Glass is Google’s new wearable computer - no doubt you’ve heard about it in the news. What’s cool and new today is that you can now write Glass apps that…

In this post I wanted to explore the options around building a Windows Azure Service Bus appender for log4net (sample download). This would allow me to…

Moved to http://blog.ehn.nu/2013/12/26/inmeta-visual-studio-extension-gallery-version-2-0/

New version of NSlice has been released. What’s new? - SliceDelete extension method for indexed and string types.

On the previous post, we saw that it's possible to make use of ADO.NET to create an application that uses SQLite as database. Thereby, with a local…

Most of applications we develop on .NET in a professional way use to imply the existence of a database, usually SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 or MySQL.…

On Nov 5th, Microsoft announced a new service named Windows Azure Scheduler, which allows us to invoke actions (such as calling HTTP/S endpoints or…

Visual Studio & TFS 2013 – List of extensions and tools (Part 2) Go to Part 1 – List of Product Updates for information on Visual Studio and TFS 2013…

Visual Studio and TFS 2013 List of Product Updates (Part 1) This post is continued here! Looking for List of VS 2013 Extensions (Part 2)

SharePoint 2013, like SharePoint 2010, uses four policies to control the removal of deleted content from the index. When an error is encountered during a…

Tarun and I have started working on new Visual Studio extension, which we plan to release in couple of weeks after Christmas. One of the first thing I do…

How to exclude code from Code Coverage in Visual Studio unit testing using runsettings Download: VS2012 Runsettingstemplate VS2013 Runsettingstemplate

AnemicDomainModel") is an anti-pattern I seem to keep coming across. It's when a system has objects which represent its business entities, but all the…

When you have installed Visual studio update 4 you still see there is no template for MVC 5. For now you need to install ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 Read…

The software you write is valuable. Therefore, it should be protected. When you provide software for sale you need a mechanism to ensure it’s used within…