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!

Programming Problems and Finding Solutions

It’s been years (8 years to be exact as of this writing) since I am involved in various forums such as (forums.asp.net), (codeasp.net/forums), (aspsnippets.com/forums), (msforums.ph), (aspforums.net/forums), ...

Dynamically Adding and Deleting Rows in GridView and Saving All Rows at Once

Few years back I wrote a series of blog posts demonstrating how to add dynamic TextBox, dynamic DropDownList and a combination of both controls in GridView control. I’ve posted another couple of posts ...

Customer AIF web service sample code

In the blog post we will consume create, update, find and findAll operation

IODA Architecture by Example

The IODA Architecture to me is fundamental. But as many fundamental notions it might be a bit abstract. That's why I want to provide an example of how to design and implement software based on it. I keep ...

Build 2015: Day 2 Keynote

As with any second day keynote, day two of Build had less fan fare and new announcements than yesterday. Today it was all about doubling down on the message and showing a little more. The one message that ...

Progress in the adoption of CM principals!

As a CM professional it's tough to know that you are making a difference sometimes. There primary indicator for me that I'm doing well is the urgency level of the issues/problems that I'm asked to work ...

Build 2015: Day 1 Keynote

Build is always one of the most exciting Microsoft conferences. Have of the fun is trying to guess what will and won’t be announced. Will the analysts be right or will there predictions be off in left ...

Enable Breadcrumb / Navigate Up on SharePoint 2013

SharePoint 2010 has Breadcrumb option which helps user to know in which level he is in. Especially when user is in 4-5 level deep sub folder on any library, the Breadcrumb icon shows the level clearly. ...

The IODA Architecture

The common architectural patterns are all pretty much the same. Layered architecture, MVC, Hexagonal architecture, Onion Architecture, Clean architecture… they all do two things: Define domains of responsibility ...

Obstructive Developers

Tldr: Don't accept obstructive behaviour as the norm, get to the root of it because there is probably an important reason.Developers are often seen as being obstructive, it's pretty much part of our stereotype. ...

Microservices

I’ve heard a lot about microservices lately and I am trying to get an understanding of it. How does one apply the ideas and concepts? Martin Fowler in his keynote (link below) said microservices is a subset ...

Sweet Aspects

When a module has a single responsibility that means it’s focused on producing the behavior of a single aspect. That’s how I described the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) in my previous article. ...

Hosting LINQ to Twitter on GitHub

Today, I finished migrating LINQ to Twitter from CodePlex to GitHub. I was happy with CodePlex for a long time. However, it just hasn’t been kept up to date. There hasn’t been any activity or improvements ...

The Single Responsibility Principle under the microscope

It’s equally important and mysterious: the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP). And even though its originator Robert C. Martin tried to explain it again, I feel there is something lacking. Some concreteness, ...

Xamarin.Android– Wearable Demo Project is now on Github

I’ve decided to put the demo project on github in case someone would want to see and run the demo project I’ve created about syncing data between wearable and handheld device. Here’s the link: https://github.com/proudmon... ...

BIDS Helper 1.7.0 released

A few days ago the BIDS Helper team released of v1.7.0 which you can download from here: https://bidshelper.codeplex... This version comes with a few bug fixes, and some new functionality, but ...

DZone Most Valuable Blogger (MVB)

Yes I am one of the MVB now! I am honored and feel awesome about it. :D What is MVB? "DZone's Most Valuable Blogger program brings together a group of highly talented bloggers, authors, and technologists ...

Xamarin.Android - Testing, Debugging and Deploying Apps to Wear and Handheld devices

In my previous post we talked about how to create app in Wearable and Handheld devices and created a simple implementation of sending/syncing data. In this post I'm going to demonstrate how to deploy and ...

Integrated Javascript testing with Jasmine, Travis, and NPM

My goal here is to run Javascript unit tests as part of a Travis CI build process. The project is Java based, so the Travis environment is configured for Java. I need to find a clean way of running my ...

DB2: How do I get the Column Definitions, Column Descriptions?

These general statements will get you the information that you're looking for:SELECT TABLE_CAT, TABLE_SCHEM, TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME, DATA_TYPE, TYPE_NAME, COLUMN_SIZE, COLUMN_TEXTFROM "SYSIBM"."SQLCOLUMNS"WHERE ...

Frankentechtures

Monsters are an exciting thing to see in a movie. They are not so thrilling in your application architecture. I recently came up with (or at least I think I came up with) a term for architectures that ...

What’s New in VS 2015 Webinar

Today, I did a webinar for LearnNowOnline.com, titled “What’s New in Visual Studio 2015”. I provided an overview of IDE features, editor enhancements, ASP.NET updates, the new Universal App project type, ...

Xamarin.Android - Syncing data between Wearable and Handheld devices

In my previous posts I've talked about setting up your development environment to get started with Android development using Xamarin and Visual Studio and also talked about a brief introduction about wearable. ...

C# Check if property exists before binding

I had a form view where I was binding two different objects to. These two objects were slightly different, and I didn't want to create a separate form view for both objects.Here is what I did: Normal 0 ...

Windows Performance Toolkit for Windows 10

All are talking about Windows 10 but what about the developer Tools? Since 4/20/2015 you can also download the beta of the upcoming Visual Studio 2015 and Windows / Phone SDKs. This includes also a new ...

I’m pleased to announce

The SCAMBS Bin Collection App. is now available on Google Play. https://play.google.com/sto... ...

IReadOnlyList as a method parameter

Resharper is a fabulous tool for Visual Studio and is my HUD for what’s going on. It helps me see things I don’t always notice. For example, using an IEnumerable multiple times will have blue squiggles ...

BizTalk Server Cumulative Updates

Last week I saw a twitter post where it was shared that BizTalk Server 2010 CU 7 had been released. As usual attempts to search for the CU returned loads of hits for any number of old CUs and CUs for other ...

Angular Directive: Wizard in bootstrap modal

In my project I have a feature which needs user to specify a large amount of properties against an object. I though a wizard would be the best solution since it makes the user focus on part of the object ...

AT&T is this Right or Fare?

Now here is a new problem, with all the new options and deals out there, AT&T is forcing us to pay full price of phones "Next" while we already have been with them for years and years, 25 years for ...

Links for Web Components and Polymer

From the April 18 Code Camp discussionhttps://status.mo... ...

Hyper-V & PowerShell – How to create a VM with a differential disk

How many times you have to create a VM to test something? How many times you have to watch OS installation progress. Enough! All you need is to create a differential disk to your golden image and spin ...

Chrome Trendnet cloud plugin problem

I have a Trendnet cloud IP cam at home. Ususally I can browse to it through the trendnet proxy. But today it wouldn't work in Chrome. Kept prompting me to install the plugin. I knew Chrome was in the process ...

Visual Studio 2015 Custom Window Layouts

I’ve been trying out VS 2015’s new Custom Window Layouts feature. This lets you create, manage, and open different arrangements of windows in Visual Studio. The benefit of custom layouts is that you can ...

Watch App is Go!

My Easter project, was to build an update to my South Cambridgeshire Bin Collection App. Apple approved it to go onto the App Store this morning. Its now running on the Apple Watch (along with iPhone and ...

New E-Book: ASP.NET MVC Succinctly

This book will cover the following topics: Conceptual Overview MVC Says Hello World The World Says Hello Back Don’t Trust Everything the World Says MVC Meets jQuery MVC Scaffolding The ASP.NET MVC Succinctly ...

Project Manager? Scrum Master? Can both the roles survive?

Many a times, consulting and IT service providers engage with customers from the stage of order inquiry or a phase called discovery, followed by order handover and then execution (order to cash) to the ...

sql server: How can I list or review the last restores for all the databases on a server?

Go to the server your are interested in gathering the information from, then issue this statement:WITH LastRestoresOnServer AS(SELECT sysdb.[name] as dbName, sysdb.[create_date], sysdb.[compatibility_level], ...

personal info

I just published my personal website. Check it out.

CMAP–AngularUI Code Samples

Thanks to everyone for attending my presentation on AngularUI at CMAP this week. The code samples and slide deck for my presentation can be found here. Make sure to following the instructions in the readme.md ...

Una pequeña lección sobre las Lecciones aprendidas

"Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo."¿Cuál el el peor proyecto en que has participado? ¿Y cuál el mejor? ¿Te imaginas que pudieras repetirlos? ¿Qué harías diferente?Eso, justamente, son las Lecciones ...

Updating New MVC Project NuGet packages could not load Microsoft.Owin.Security

File new project, MVC (Visual Studio 2013 in April 2014) Update all NuGet packages and I get this: Server Error in '/' Application. Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Owin.Security, Version=2.1.0.0, ...

SSRS–adding a pipe delimited text export option in Sharepoint Integrated mode

We are currently looking decommission an old reporting portal based on another technology stack and replace it with SSRS running in Sharepoint integrated mode. However one of the requirements was to support ...

Angular Directive to Show Highlight Style when Model Changed

In my project I'm using SignalR and Angular.js to make the page real-time. But I found a slightly problem. It's a little bit hard to notice user when something changed if there are a lot of fields in the ...

How do I Fix "Cannot resolve the collation conflict between "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS" and "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS"

You were probably trying to do a comparison between 2 databases with different collation settings on a WHERE clause or on a join. Here's how you would do the comparison with a JOIN: Normal 0 false false ...

Monitoring Flights and Sending SMS with Taskmatics Scheduler and Enzo Unified

Software developers need to build solutions quickly so that businesses remain competitive and agile. This blog post shows you how Taskmatics Scheduler (http://www.taskmatics.com) and Enzo Unified (http://www.enzounified.com) ...

Visual Studio: Could not copy "obj\Debug\Some.dll" to "bin\Debug\Some.dll". Exceeded retry count of 10. Failed.

We stumbled upon a situation where Visual Studio wouldn't let us a build with the following errors:Could not copy "obj\Debug\VsLockLib.dll" to "bin\Debug\VsLockLib.dll". Exceeded retry count of 10. Failed.Unable ...

First bit of FiddlerScript

Never used FiddlerScript, nor had any real use for it today. But now I see some nice possibilities.I just finished installing Win 10 and all my software, when I saw this "feature" occur once I turned Fiddler ...

Accumulative Effects

I’ve been a software developer for about 10 years, 8 years in my current full time job and 2 years off and on in a part-time job during college. Every year we do a yearly review with a reflection form ...

Getting Started with Julia by Ivo Balbaert, Packt Publishing Book Review

An awesome book on an awesome language conceived by brilliant MIT computer scientists! The author clearly a technically savvy, mature professional who understands Julia very well. Besides, the language ...