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September 1, 2015 Business

.NET PowerTip 2: Writing Data to Excel

Every now and then, developers have to write data to excel. There are several approaches: 1. Full fledged Excel Interop:

August 31, 2015 Business

VS2015 Debugging and Performance Features: PerfTips

Visual Studio 2015 holds a couple of interesting features for the interested debugger and troubleshooter. This blog post will elaborate

August 26, 2015 Business

WPF: Attaching Commands to RoutedEvents

A very common problem in WPF and especially MVVM is that Commands, that is classes that implement the ICommand interface

July 25, 2015 Business

.NET Power Tip 1–Save a .NET Assembly as a Visual Studio Project (*.csproj) with ILSpy

This blog post introduces ILSpy and shows the lesser known feature that allows you to decompile foreign assemblies and

July 4, 2015 Business

Checking your Application Servers with Powershell (ApplicationPools, Windows Services, EventLog, Performance Counters)

If you are working in enterprise software development, you will sooner or later be involved in deployment of code to

April 4, 2015 Business

Profiling 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

March 31, 2015 Business

WPF 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.

March 27, 2015 Business

Performance Profiling of .NET Applications in Visual Studio 2013/2015

There have been a lot of improvements in the troubleshooting and especially profiling capabilities of Visual Studio over the last

March 23, 2015 Business

Free XAML Icons and Shapes in Metro Studio

In any UI Framework, visuals are the key to success. An application that contains appealing graphics automatically yields a higher

December 1, 2014 Business

ToolTip: Decoding Base64 Images with Chrome Data URL

Reading the great blog post about Base64 encoding and decoding in .NET/C# written by Jerry Nixon (http://blog.jerrynixon.com/2014/11/reading-and-writing-base64-in-windows.html), I immediately remembered

October 5, 2014 Business

Microsoft TechTalk: S.O.L.I.D. Principles and DDD

On September 18, 2014, I held a Tech Talk at the Microsoft Switzerland Offices in Walisellen. The title was “Enterprise

August 13, 2014 Business

WPF: The Simplest Way to Get the Default Template of a Control as XAML

Every WPF Developer has probably faced this issue before. You want to change the default template of a control and

July 10, 2014 Business

AzureAdventures: Setting up the Adventureworks Database in under 10 Minutes

This blog post will show you how easy it is to set up the famous Adventureworks database using the Microsoft

March 9, 2014 Business

Getting started with Orchard CMS – The Modules and Features you need

After having installed Orchard as shown in http://www.12qw.ch/2014/03/getting-started-with-orchard-cms-installing-orchard it is very important to know what the first modules are that

March 8, 2014 Business

Getting started with Orchard CMS – Installing Orchard

Orchard CMS is a free Content Management System (CMS) based on Microsoft ASP.NET MVC. http://www.orchardproject.net/ Orchard is very powerful due