Exactly 7 years ago today, I wrote my first blog post titled Why online identities are smart career moves. That's a pretty self-explanatory title and I wrote it while gainfully employed in a job I'd been in for 8 years at the time, but it's worth a quick read as

In my last post, I talked about how we want to make porting to .NET Core easier. In this post, I'll focus on how we're making this plan a reality with .NET Standard. We'll cover which APIs we plan to include, how cross-framework compatibility will work, and what all of this means for .NET Core.

This week I have to give an introductory talk on DevOps and Docker and therefore I decided to prepare a simple Step by step: ASP.NET Core on Docker sample. Assuming you have Docker installed and running, follow these 4 simple steps: Yu can get a copy of the docker file here: https://github.com/cmendible/dotnetcore.samples/tree/master/docker.helloworld Hope it helps!

Now IT Pros can see the health of applications monitored Visual Studio Application Insights. Application Insights can now send app data to Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS), enabling the app developer and their IT Pro counterpart to each monitor the health of critical applications in the tool they are most experienced with.

Microsoft was proud to become the first global cloud service provider to appear on the Department of Commerce's list of Privacy Shield certified entities as of August 12th 2016.

We would like to introduce you to our next generation command-line tools for Azure: Azure Command-Line Interface (Azure CLI) 2.0 Preview.

We are excited to announce availability of the new H-series virtual machines in Azure. With the availability of these new VM sizes we continue our mission to deliver great performance for HPC applications in Azure. H-series VM sizes is an excellent fit for any compute-intensive workload.

Cyber threats are evolving at an astonishing pace, and safeguarding your cloud workloads requires constant innovation. Since Azure Security Center became generally available in July 2016, we have been hard at work on new capabilities to help customers better defend against these threats.

When talking about the botframework, and chatbots in general, people usually assume that these are all using some clever logic and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to deliver a chunk of business logic via a natural language interface.

When you have a farm like I do, with a lot of pastures, a lot of fence lines and a lot of trees, you inevitably spend a lot of time clearing dead trees, fallen limbs, etc. from your fences and fields. It's a never ending job.

We created a server-side validation attribute before, but how do we validate it on the client-side? In today's post, I answer a reader's request on how to add JavaScript validation to our DateTime comparer.

Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SmartBear blog. Check out the original here, at their site. While you're there, take a look around at the pieces written by other authors as well. A certain ideal of rugged individualism has always permeated programmer culture, at least in some circles.

Since the new version of Release Management was introduced in TFS 2015 Update 2, it has been in "trial mode". Any user with Basic access level was able to access all features of Release Management. For the last few months, we have been hard at work to finalize the pricing model for Release Management in time for the release of TFS "15" RTM.

The other day I saw someone mention me in a pull request for a client's GitHub repository (probably on my phone). When I had some time to look into the issue,

Today we released RC2 of TFS "15". The key links are here: You can check out the release notes for details of what's new. The release notes are a union of everything new in TFS 15 but you can identify changes since RC1 by looking for items tagged " New in TFS "15" RC2 ".

Click Click Click Click ... "ZOMG, there must be a fast way to work in Visual Studio. I know there are keyboard shortcuts but who can remember them all? I wish there were a simple way for me to s

Speech is increasingly becoming a big part of building modern mobile applications. Users expect to be able to interact with apps through speech, so much so that speech is developing into a user interface itself. iOS contains multiple ways for users to interact with their mobile device through speech, mainly via Siri and Keyboard Dictation.

This week we are announcing several new Azure networking services and features to provide customers greater performance, higher availability, better security and more operational insights.

Yes, there will be a workaround it this article, but first... WTF! I mean. Seriously. I have a Microsoft account and when installing Windows 10 it kind of wants me to go that route instead of picking SKIP for now and go with the traditional local user account (which BTW

I'm guessing that 98% would say "NO", 1% would say "yes" due to building some internal APIs or something. The final percent will say "yes" without really knowing what they are doing. But is this something we even have today? I mean who works with pure SQL directly in the

Tips For The Job Seeking Developer - You Can Do It!

Of course this post is displaying my bias, but hell, I wouldn't have spent almost a year working so hard on Marten if I didn't believe in the concept and its advantages over other .Net persistence tools. In no way am I actually criticizing Entity Framework or Dapper in this post, but I am trying...

For some reason, the Internet got all excited about dithering a few months ago, linking primarily to this article about elevent dithering algorithms. (Here's another article about dithering.) Which reminded me of a dithering story.

out of nowhere, you get a call from a customer claiming that your app is consuming up to 100% of the server's CPU and it is not letting it go

Today, I show five ASP.NET MVC tips to make you more productive and one awesome extension for GitHub.