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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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!

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

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...

project.json files allow you to use a * for the “pre-release” part of your version (e.g. 1.0.0-*) but not for the major/minor/patch parts. To make this easier, we created a bump-version.ps1 powershell script that automatically updates these parts in all libraries (and libraries that depend on them) of a solution.

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.

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

During an appearance on the .NET Rocks podcast last week, a question was raised about securely sending information through ASP.NET ViewState. I responded to the question by indicating that the typical security concern for web content is not to trust any content submitted from the web, including ViewState.

Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the NDepend blog. Check out the original here, at their site. If you like posts on the topics of static analysis and software architecture, check out the rest of the posts while you're over there. The software development world is filled with what I think of as ...

In this blog post, I’m going to show you how I migrated from ELK to Azure Log Analytics

Speed Index is important because it goes a step further and measures how much of the "above-the-fold" content is visually complete until the web page has finished loading

one of our users talked about needing to re-run the NUnit console runner, executing just the failed tests from the previous run

In the past month, we have made several changes

Microsoft just announced that Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2016 is now available for download

I've had this idea in mind for a while to start capturing some video on a weekly basis about things that are topical and interesting but that I'm probably just not going to get around to blogging into detail. Writing is massively time consuming plus I reckon there's a bit

Working with Temporal Tables in SQL Server, Part 2: Data Platform MVP Leonard Lobel @lennilobel When's the Best Time to Post on Yammer: Office Servers and Services MVP Becky Benishek @bbenishek CPS Standard on Nutanix Released: Cloud and Data Management MVP Robert Corradini @netwatch How to Refresh Your Windows 10 PC with a Clean Installation:...

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

I wrote recently about how Have I been pwned (HIBP) had an API rate limit introduced and then brought forward which was in part a response to large volumes of requests against the API. It was causing sudden ramp ups of traffic that Azure couldn't scale fast enough to meet

In this quick post I'll show how to easily setup machine-specific configuration in your ASP.NET Core applications. This allows you to use different settings depending on the name of the machine you are using. The tl;dr; version is to add a json file to your project containing your computer's name, e.g.

This article shows how the NLog connection string for the DatabaseTarget can be configured in the appsettings.json in an ASP.NET Core project and not the XML nlog.config file. All the NLog target properties can be configured in code if required and not just in the NLog XML configuration file.