DevOps session by Richard Campbell
On 26 May Richard Campbell was at Prodware Benelux in Rijswijk. Jarkko of the The Software Architecture and Project Design The Hague organized this presentation. It was a great event and Richard...
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Windows Phone 8.1
Soon a nice update will come to your Windows Phone 8: Windows Phone 8.1. This update contains a lot of UI updates but also additions like other platforms know. It will be possible to have a background...
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Kinect for Windows V2 – Sensor
Probably you have already heard or read about it. In our SDN event in March we had a session and in our SDN magazine 120 there was an article, both by Dennis Vroegop and based on the Developers preview...
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Visual Studio Editor TIP
A few days ago I had to adjust a text file. I needed it for testing with BizTalk whatsoever. In the Text file I needed to remove some columns and replace it with something else. Not sure what is was,...
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Microsoft Project Siena
This Windows 8 app is available for some time now. This app makes it possible to create powerful Business apps and publish it without writing one line of code. More information can be found on...
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Surface Pro 3
Today my Surface Pro 3 (i7 with 256 Gb disk 8Gb memory) finally came. I looked forward to its arrival for a long time and I am very curious about the differences. And the differences are big. First...
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Bing while coding
Every developer does it, during developing you search the for tips and tricks. In the last couple of years the number of resources on the internet is grown. Help, tips and code example can be found on...
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IoT (1) .NET Gadgeteer
Internet of Things has gain interest over the pas months/years. Not that strange, because the world is becoming more connected everyday. Everything and everyone is connected on every spot on this...
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IoT (2) Intel Galileo
At the last //Build conference they spoke about Windows on a Intel mainboard. Intel developed a chip which was capable of running Microsoft Windows. The board is a Intel Galileo. In fact it is a...
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Windows 10 Technical Preview
Since this week Windows 10 is available in a Technical Preview. This version is not for faint harted or inexperience users. Other advice is not to install it on your main computer. So I did download it...
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Visual Studio 2015 Preview: C# 6
On November 12 and 13 Microsoft organized the Connect(); event in New York. the keynote was live and the Dutch communities (WAZUG, DotNed, VB Central and of course SDN) had organized a evening event to...
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Microsoft Azure: Linux
During the past Connect(); event in New York Microsoft made clear they love Linux and Open Source. Their .NET framework is now open source which shows this love. But Satya Nadella earlier already...
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ConnectionStrings / AppSettings Azure
During my actions to understand Azure webjobs I stumbled upon this nice feature. A Webjob is deployed with an Azure website. With a Webjob there belongs a dashboard for logging and details on...
View ArticleMacro in Excel not working after update
I am using an Excel 2013 sheet to create invoices. It is powered by macro’s a lot. After the latest Office updates the Excel sheet did not work like it use to. It reported unclear errors. After some...
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Azure Webjobs
During the past Dutch Microsoft Techdays 2014 I did a session about Azure Cloud Services. A recording (in Dutch) can be found on Channel 9. In the beginning of Azure, Cloud services were the “way to...
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API Management
It is for vendors of products very difficult to make mobile applications for every possible mobile platform. Of course by preparing and making a good responsive mobile website available will enhance...
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IoT (3) Intel Galileo
In my last blog I already told about Microsoft Windows on a Intel Galileo board. I showed how to show some texts on a LCD display with C++ code. Not long after that the second generation of the...
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Windows 10 and Office Apps
Since some weeks I am running the newest Windows 10 Technical Preview on my Surface Pro 3. The first version of Windows 10 was getting the worst behaviors of Windows 8.1 out of the system. Windows 8...
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Xamarin: Multi Platform Development
In the past I wrote some applications for the Windows Phone Platform. A few of them can be even found in the store. They are not perfect, but they gave me good insight in how it works. What does a...
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Consume Modern SaaS EndPoints with Visual Studio 2015
We all know the functionality of Visual Studio to add a Service reference to your project. With this you can consume available Services rather easy in your application. From the code you can get to the...
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