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January 9, 2016 Business

Debugging and Profiling in VS2015 Article on simple-talk.com

If you are interested in the new debugging and profiling features that came with Visual Studio 2015, check out my

January 7, 2016 Business

.NET Power Tip 8: Troubleshooting log4net Configurations

The configuration part of Log4Net often causes severe headaches. Most of the times, a small mistakes prevents any log output

January 6, 2016 Business

Entity Framework Performance Resources

Today, I stumbled upon a great article on Entity Framework performance gotchas and ways to make stuff faster. The article

December 1, 2015 Business

DDC2015 WPF Troubleshooting in VS2015 Session

Today I delivered a session on Troubleshooting of WPF applications using the in-the-box tools of VS2015. The slides can be

November 24, 2015 Business

.NET Power Tip 7: Excluding Files from TFS Source Control (Detected: 500 Add(s))

Sometimes you need a directory or some files within your Visual Studio Solution that you do NOT want to check-in

October 29, 2015 Business

Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Design Templates

Did you know that there are design templates that can be used to create mockups of Windows Universal Apps? https://dev.windows.com/en-us/design/assets

October 28, 2015 Business

Windows 10: Show Date in Taskbar with Small Taskbar Buttons

Well, this is kinda stupid, but it still took me too much time to figure it out. I installed Windows

October 3, 2015 Business

.NET Power Tip 6: Presenting in Visual Studio (Presentation Mode & ToolBox Snippets)

This blog post covers a few tips for holding presentations that include some activity in Visual Studio, such as live

October 1, 2015 Business

.NET Power Tip 5: Examining .NET Callstacks on Running Application with Sysinternals Process Explorer

This blog post shows how you can use Sysinternals Process Explorer to examine .NET Processes at runtime without installing any

October 1, 2015 Business

Basta 2015 WPF Profiling in VS2015 Session

I held a presentation on WPF Profiling in Visual Studio 2015 at the recent Basta 2015 Conference in Mainz, Germany.

September 27, 2015 Business

AzureAdventures: Cannot Create Mobile Service Error 500

When you try to create an azure mobile service, based on an existing Azure database, you could get the following

September 26, 2015 Business

.NET Power Tip 4: Playing with Format Strings

Many developers heavily underestimate the power of the format string. This post shows a couple of examples that can

September 23, 2015 Business

VS2015 New Debugging and Performance Features (German)

I wrote an article for the August 2015 edition of Windows Developer Magazin that introduces the new debugging features in

September 22, 2015 Business

WPF: The Infragistics WPF Roadmap – WPF IS NOT DEAD!

Today I stumbled across an interesting whitepaper by Infragistics. It is called “The Windows Presentation Foundation Roadmap: 2015 and Beyond”.

September 5, 2015 Business

.NET Power Tip 3: Reading Data from Excel/CSV

As with writing data to Excel, reading data can be achieved in multiple ways. If you need read and write