This year I presented at CodeStock conference again. Once more time I had fun there. I think CodeStock is my favorite event to attend. For a small price attendees get high quality content with national and regional speaker presenting. This year I presented on a couple of topics. What’s new in Entity Framework Code First …
I created a short, 30 minutes video on how to get started with Entity Framework 7 Migrations inside ASP.NET v. next (ASP.NET 5). I decided that video would be much better than huge blog post with a ton of screenshots. II uploaded it to YouTube to my channel as a means to share my experiment. …
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I have been following the developments occurring in Angular 2.0 world for a number of months. Although the project is not even in alpha phase quite yet, I have been meaning to try to write a tiny sample project. I wanted to see how version 2 is different from version 1, even in the simplest …
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I created a short, 25 minutes video on how to get started with Entity Framework 7 inside ASP.NET v. next (ASP.NET 5). I decided that video would be much better than huge blog post with a ton of screenshots. I based this decision on something I would want to watch. Looking out for number 1 …
ETW, or Event Tracing for Windows, is a technology from Microsoft that allows for extremely fast logging from a running application. Windows itself is using ETW, and technology has been part of Windows since Windows 2000. A developer can write code to start and stop tracing sessions, given that an application being traced has been …
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I attended our users group last Monday, where Jim Wooly showed us, attendees, how to create our first Analyzer using .NET Compiler Platform, formerly known as Roslyn. He posted a bunch of resources here. I wanted to document for myself the steps I took in creating an analyzer/fixer to ensure that all fields inside a …
I have read some user experience articles that stated that it may be easier for humans to read data in columns rather than rows. Even at work we have some applications that arrange inputs within a form in different ways. It seems like a simple thing to do, but most of Bootstrap examples all arrange …
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In this post I want to document the steps of publishing an ASP.NET v Next web site to IIS and have it successfully use an SQL Server database. I am going to assume you downloaded the preview version of Visual Studio 2015 that allows you to create v. next projects. Start Visual Studio 2015 and …
I have not been blogging much in the past 6 months. There are many reasons for this. Primary one is that I have been writing a book, accepting an offer from Packt publishing. The book is published now! It is available from both Packt and Amazon sites. Time to get some rest and catch up …
In light of what I posted yesterday about reducing the amount of TypeScript I write, I wanted to talk about another aspect of reducing the amount of TypeScript code. Once common task is to create TypeScript models for your Angular application that match what your server expects. You generate your TypeScript models for your .NET …
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