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

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

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!

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.

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.

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,

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.

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.

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

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 ".

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.

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

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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