Getting Started with Elastic Search in .NET

I have been working on many application during my career.  Many if not all had some searching capabilities.  The more complex the search got, the harder it was to control its performance and impact on database transactions.  If you also would like to support full text search, your problems become larger.  We could use Full …

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Troubleshooting Assembly Binding

Today I was testing something with third party assemblies in our web site and saw a familiar error: Could not load file or assembly ‘XXXX.DLL’ or one of its dependencies. The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for …

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Oracle .NET Release

In case you missed an important news, Oracle just released ODAC 12c Release 3 to production.  The new ODAC release is now available for download from OTN. New features include Entity Framework 6, Code First, Code First Migrations, .NET Framework 4.5.2 certification, and managed ODP.NET XML DB, Kerberos, and more streamlined distributed transaction support. Try …

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Connect Event

Connect(); event took place on November 12 and 13th.  So many new things were announced by Microsoft.  You can watch the recorded session here.  I wanted to take a few minutes and summarize the announcements for myself as well contemplate a bit on importance and ramifications of them.  All the opinions below express my personal …

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