This blog post covers a few tips for holding presentations that include some activity in Visual Studio, such as live
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This blog post shows how you can use Sysinternals Process Explorer to examine .NET Processes at runtime without installing any
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I held a presentation on WPF Profiling in Visual Studio 2015 at the recent Basta 2015 Conference in Mainz, Germany.
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When you try to create an azure mobile service, based on an existing Azure database, you could get the following
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Many developers heavily underestimate the power of the format string. This post shows a couple of examples that can
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I wrote an article for the August 2015 edition of Windows Developer Magazin that introduces the new debugging features in
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Today I stumbled across an interesting whitepaper by Infragistics. It is called “The Windows Presentation Foundation Roadmap: 2015 and Beyond”.
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As with writing data to Excel, reading data can be achieved in multiple ways. If you need read and write
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Every now and then, developers have to write data to excel. There are several approaches: 1. Full fledged Excel Interop:
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Visual Studio 2015 holds a couple of interesting features for the interested debugger and troubleshooter. This blog post will elaborate
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A very common problem in WPF and especially MVVM is that Commands, that is classes that implement the ICommand interface
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This blog post introduces ILSpy and shows the lesser known feature that allows you to decompile foreign assemblies and
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If you are working in enterprise software development, you will sooner or later be involved in deployment of code to
Continue readingProfiling WPF Applications in Visual Studio 2015 with the WPF Timeline Tool
In VS2013 Microsoft introduced the Performance and Diagnostics Hub. (Check my blog post here: http://www.12qw.ch/2015/03/performance-profiling-of-net-applications-in-visual-studio-20132015/) In visual Studio 2015, the
Continue readingWPF is Back! And becoming even more Powerful!
I am really happy that we can finally see more and more activity around Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) by Microsoft.
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