The configuration part of Log4Net often causes severe headaches. Most of the times, a small mistakes prevents any log output at all. By adding the following snippet to your projects config file, log4net will print out its diagnostics information that often helps to pinpoint any problems: 1. Set debug=”true” in the first line of your […]
Today, I stumbled upon a great article on Entity Framework performance gotchas and ways to make stuff faster. The article is from Ben Emmet, a technical project manager at Redgate (http://www.red-gate.com/). This blog post has two parts. Part 1, provides an index-style summary of two great articles on EF performance optimizations and part 2 introduces […]
This blog post shows how you can use Sysinternals Process Explorer to examine .NET Processes at runtime without installing any software on the machine: Look at managed call stacks Get performance info for CPU and GPU Check .NET performance counters Unlock Files See what assemblies are loaded and from where Find out the CLR version […]
Many developers heavily underestimate the power of the format string. This post shows a couple of examples that can greatly facilitate a coders daily life. Don’t know what a format string is, look here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.format(v=vs.110).aspx Another great resource with some more advanced ideas: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kathykam/archive/2006/03/29/564426.aspx Remember that there are multiple ways how a format string […]
I wrote an article for the August 2015 edition of Windows Developer Magazin that introduces the new debugging features in Visual Studio 2015. I has recently been published online for everybody to read. If you are interested in debugging in VS2015, go check it out (note: it is written in German): https://entwickler.de/online/windev/visual-studio-2015-wpf-xaml-debuggen-168386.html The article presents […]
Today I stumbled across an interesting whitepaper by Infragistics. It is called “The Windows Presentation Foundation Roadmap: 2015 and Beyond”. You can get it here: http://www.infragistics.com/resources/whitepapers The contents are: Introduction A Brief History of Windows Presentation Foundation .NET, Open Source and WPF The WPF Roadmap The Infragistics Roadmap Commiting to WPF with Confidence Interesting points: […]
Every now and then, developers have to write data to excel. There are several approaches: 1. Full fledged Excel Interop: Add the interop assembly to your project, connect to your local excel application, create workbook, sheet, fill data, etc. Example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19933135/writing-to-excel-using-c-sharp Drawback 1: You need excel on the client. Drawback 2: The Excel version installed […]
Visual Studio 2015 holds a couple of interesting features for the interested debugger and troubleshooter. This blog post will elaborate on some of the new tools and features in VS2015: Perf Tips You might already be familiar with the data tips that pop up when you hover over a variable during debugging: Sidenote: Did you […]
This blog post introduces ILSpy and shows the lesser known feature that allows you to decompile foreign assemblies and directly save them in the Visual Studio Project format (*.csproj). You might be familiar with ILSpy (http://ilspy.net/), the open source successor of the legendary .NET Reflector. It emerged in the time when RedGate acquired .NET […]
I am really happy that we can finally see more and more activity around Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) by Microsoft. Currently, there are breaking news every month. I am looking forward for what will be revealed at Build 2015. Here is an overview of the current developments: November 2014: Roadmap for WPF First, in November […]
On September 18, 2014, I held a Tech Talk at the Microsoft Switzerland Offices in Walisellen. The title was “Enterprise Software Architecture and Domain-Driven Design”. The main goal of the talk was to explain that with the .NET Framework getting more and more mature, it becomes ever more important to think about how we deal […]
This blog post will show you how easy it is to set up the famous Adventureworks database using the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Before we start, a little background: A couple of days ago, I was at a customer site and needed a simple database in order to show a .NET framework demo. I wanted to […]
After having installed Orchard as shown in http://www.12qw.ch/2014/03/getting-started-with-orchard-cms-installing-orchard it is very important to know what the first modules are that need to be installed. In this post I will give you an overview about the most important modules/features and why you need them. The following features help you with questions such as: How can I […]
Orchard CMS is a free Content Management System (CMS) based on Microsoft ASP.NET MVC. http://www.orchardproject.net/ Orchard is very powerful due to its rich extensions in the form of Modules (= Feature Packages) and Themes. It is highly customizable due to its full .NET integration and extensibility. Orchard can be installed either by downloading with the […]
Note: This post is one of a series, the overview can be found here: Complex Event Processing with StreamInsight Writing the StreamInsight Queries The sample code to the application can be downloaded here: Scenario 1: Tweets per Second As we can see from our pass-through implementation from the last post, we receive a large amount of […]