CODE INSIDE

2017

• Using Visual Studio Code & Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC)
  TFVC, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code
• .NET CultureInfo in Windows 10
  Windows 10, .NET
• How we moved to Visual Studio 2017
  Visual Studio 2017
• HowTo: Get User Information & Group Memberships from Active Directory via C#
  Active Directory, .NET
• Create NuGet packages with Cake
  Cake, NuGet
• Build & run xUnit tests with Cake
  Cake, xUnit
• GitHub API: Create or update files
  GitHub, Octokit

2016

• DbProviderFactories: Write database agnostic ADO.NET code
  DbProviderFactory, ADO.NET, SQL
• Enable SSL with custom domains on GitHub Pages via Cloudflare
  SSL, HTTPS, GitHub, Cloudflare
• Writing loops in T-SQL
  T-SQL, SQL
• Lets convert a WPF app to the Universal Windows Platform
  UWP, WPF, DesktopAppConverter, Centennial
• TFS 2015: Adding a new Windows Build Agent
  TFS, Build
• CAKE: Building solutions with C# & Roslyn
  CAKE, Build, MSBuild
• FAKE: Build ASP.NET projects with web.config transformation (and without knowing a tiny bit of F#)
  FAKE, ASP.NET
• Copy to clipboard with Javascript
  Javascript, HTML
• Get the Windows 10 or 8 accent color in WPF
  Windows, WPF
• Debugging .NET based Windows Error Reports (WER)
  Debugging, .NET, WER, Windows
• XML Autocompletion with AvalonEdit
  XML, .NET, AvalonEdit, IntelliSense
• Parsing XML Schemas in .NET
  XML, .NET, XSD
• Using FontAwesome in UWP apps
  OSS, FontAwesome, UWP
• Using Travis CI for GitHub Pages builds
  Jekyll, GitHub Pages, Travis CI
• Pretty Print XML in .NET
  XML, .NET
• ExpensiveMeeting - a Universal Windows Platform OSS app using Template10
  UWP, OSS, Template10
• Shipping Visual C++ 2015 redistributable DLLs with your app or how to do an app-local deployment
  VCRedist, VC++, Universal CRT, Win32
• Working with FontIcons in UWP
  UWP, FontAwesome, Fonts, FontIcon

2015

• Serving embedded resources with ASP.NET WebApi
  WebAPI, ASP.NET
• Working with JumpLists in WPF Apps
  WPF, Windows, JumpLists
• XML deserialize to abstract class, interface or base class
  XML
• Nothing to do next weekend? Come to Leipzig and join the Developer Open Space 2015
  Developer Open Space
• WPF, Chrome Embedded and WebApi Self-hosted
  WPF, CEF, WebAPI
• FAKE: Running MSTest Tests with FAKE without knowing a tiny bit of F#
  FAKE, Test, MSBuild, MSTest
• Reg.exe or how to import .reg files without admin privileges
  Registry
• HowTo: Write to Azure Blob Storage
  Azure
• Semantic Versioning in a nutshell
  SemVer
• Using PCLs in ASP.NET
  PCL, ASP.NET
• FAKE: Create NuGet Packages without knowing a tiny bit of F#
  FAKE, NuGet
• Create and read NuGet Packages via Code
  NuGet
• Microsoft Web Camp Talk in German about ASP.NET now and ASP.NET 5
  ASP.NET 5, ASP.NET
• Using Basic Authentication in ASP.NET WebAPI
  Basic Auth, WebAPI, ASP.NET
• JSON.NET deserialize to abstract class or interface
  JSON, JSON.NET
• Keep your test data with your tests
  Testing, Unit Tests, TDD
• FAKE: Running xUnit Tests with FAKE without knowing a tiny bit of F#
  FAKE, Test, MSBuild, xUnit
• FAKE: Building C# projects without knowing a tiny bit of F#
  FAKE, Build, MSBuild
• ESENT Database Viewer: ESENT Workbench
  ESENT, NoSQL, ESENTDB, Viewer
• Developer Conference in Berlin: Spartakiade
  Events
• Human readable and editable config files with YAML
  YAML, Configuration
• Using FontAwesome with WPF
  FontAwesome, WPF

2014

• We moved completely to GitHub Pages - German & English Posts migrated!
  Wordpress, GitHub Pages, GitHub
• Microsoft Account Auth and Profile Data via LiveSDK in ASP.NET
  Microsoft Account, Auth, LiveSDK
• Simple WebApp Deployment with WebDeploy and MSBuild in TFS & co.
  MSBuild, WebDeploy, TFS
• Easy ways to customize Bootstrap
  Bootstrap, CSS
• Using WebDeploy as Non-Admin
  WebDeploy, IIS, MSDeploy
• WinJS for Windows Store Apps: Free eBook, Videos and how you could use it with Angular.js
  WinJS, Windows Store, Universal Apps, HTML, Javascript
• OpenRA: Open Source Command & Conquer written in C#
  OpenRA, Games, C#
• Be aware of Assembly.GetCallingAssembly()'s Behaviour
  Reflection, Assembly, .NET
• HowTo: make out Retweet-counter in a random URL
• OpenGraph for Twitter Cards
  OpenGraph, Twitter
• How we moved from Wordpress to Jekyll - on Windows
  Wordpress, Jekyll, Migration, Windows
• Visual Studio 2013 Hidden Gem: Paste JSON or XML as C# Classes
  Visual Studio 2013, XML, JSON
• Wordpress to Jekyll Migration and Language switch
  Migration, Jekyll, WordPress, Blog, GitHub Pages
• Time-controlled Azure WebJobs – Azure as easy as it get‘s
• HowTo: Create RSS Feeds with ASP.NET MVC
  HowTo, RSS
• How to access an Azure Website with the local IIS Manager
• Create and validate own Json-Web-Tokens (JWTs)
  Auth, JSON
• Micro-Optimization: how to shrink or „embed“ pictures
• Move to Windows Azure – VMs, Word Press Migration, DNS changes
• Windows Azure Active Directory – CRUD for users and groups

2013

• Introduction into SignalR 2.0 & Azure Website Websockets
• ESENT – the „ancient NoSQL DB“ made by Windows
• Caller Information with .NET 4.5 or „Who touched the function?“
• OWIN, Katana & One ASP.NET
  Katana, One ASP.NET, OWIN
• Internal tools – cheap and tasteless?
• TFS API: Query Build-Definitions
• WebDeploy on Azure Websites using the command line
• Change the WebDeploy Port or why do I need port 8172?
• Windows Phone Fonts & what if Visual Studio lies
• Json-Online-Tools: Viewer & Json2Csharp generator
• Windows Phone SDK & „System“-Icons
• How can I figure out if my ADFS 2.0 works?
• Subdomain vs. Subdirectory
• Guide to Claim-Based Identity with the Access Control Service
• Windows Azure Websites – Logging & ErrorHandling
• PowerShell SnapIns vs. Modules
• Howto: create own data types
• There is a new GAC with .NET 4.0?
• ByeBye .NET Client Profile with .NET 4.5
• Snoop – Firebug for WPF applications
• Hyper-V in Windows 8 – „Mini-Private-Cloud in PC“

2012

• Windows Installer XML (Wix) and version numbers: What is important and what isn’t
• How am I going to find out if .NET 4.5 is installed on my system?
• Beware: the anonym Internet is full of spam
• Units and interfaces
• Use Twitter Login in ASP.NET MVC 4 without membership & co.
• „Http 400 Bad Request“ while saving into the Azure Blob Storage?
• Metro/Modern UI CSS/HTML Frameworks
• Will there be a huge memory usage or something like that after the update from Windows 7 to Windows 8?
• Chocolatey-apt-get for Windows
• What does iOS 6 for the mobile Safari – Bildupload!
• Modelbinding with complex objects in ASP.NET MVC
• Use Git and GitHub behind a Proxy
• 404-Error: Directory beats ASP.NET MVC Routing
• Captain Obvious commentaries
• Client-Side vs. Server-Side HTML Rendering
• A view into the 3D game-development with Unreal Engine 4 and Doom 3
• OWIN – what is it about and why is it so cool?
• GitHub for Windwos – first Impression
• The Retina/HiRes Displays are comming! HD-Web ahoi!
• Introduction to Redis on Windows & Redis usage with .NET
• Automated Security Analyser for ASP.NET websites
• „Sign in with Twitter“ for your own ASP.NET WebApp
  ASP.NET, Twitter
• CodePlex is going to be updated
• What does Adobe in the flash-free web? Magazine-Style Layouts with CSS Regions!
• HTML 5 Games, Tooling & 3D
• Free Online-Tutorial „30 Days to Learn jQuery“
• Speech Input API – speech input with an attribute in the Web?
• Git-Pull Request mergen for beginners
• Carriage Return / new line in Textareas
• WebDev Playground: dabblet.com for HTML/CSS, jsfiddler.com for JS & HUrl.it for REST
• Javascript to Dart Translator
  Dart
• Twitter Bootstrap as UI-kit
  Twitter Bootstrap
• Fix: the value ‚x‘ is not valid for Foo in ASP.NET MVC
  value; ASP.NET MVC
• You Tube API – recall Video Meta files with .NET
  You Tube API
• MacBook Pro for .NET Developer – useful or just pretty?
  MacBook Pro; Apple

2011

• Windows Azure SDK for node.js & co – on GitHub!
  node.js; GitHub
• oEmbed – 3rd Party Content (Video/Pictures/…) embedded on your own side
• Fix: „There is a duplicate ‚uri‘ section defined“ on DotNetOpenAuth
  duplicate; DotNetOpenAuth
• Avoid „Duplicate Content“ with IIS7 – Domain with or without www
  Domain; IIS7
• Icons in the „Metro Look“ for free – Monochrom/Minimalist Icons
  icons; for free; metro look
• NoSQL for Windows Server, Azure & SQL Server with Apache Hadoop
• Keep it simple! YAGNI!
• Use RavenDB as embedded Filebase
  NoSQL, RavenDB
• Entrance into mongoDB
  MongoDB, NoSQL, RavenDB
• Find out the Geo-coordinates of an address – geocoding with Google Maps
  Google Maps; Geo-coordinates
• TeamCity & GitHub
• WebApps easy deploying with the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles
  Windows Azure Accelerator
• Google Dash/Dart, Go, a Cloud IDE „Brightly“ and the future of Javascript
• Fix:“401 – Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials“ on ASP.NET MVC & IIS 7
• NoSQL with RavenDB and ASP.NET MVC
  NoSQL; RavenDB; ASP.NET MVC
• Entrance into Git for .NET Developer
  Git; Google Code
• Visual Studio Toolbars & Context-Menu cleanup / adjust
  Visual Studio
• Chrome Instant Page/ Prerendering – what is it and how can I use it?
  Chrome; Instant Page; Prerendering
• Prototype for Google + similar Feedback-Module with Html2Canvas-Screenshots with Javascript
• .LESS – dynamic stylesheets for .NET Developer
• Apple iCloud is using Windows Azure & Amazon AWS
• “Could not load type ‚XXX.Global‘.”
• Microsoft: full speed ahead into the cloud with fileupload & Node.js
• Why the Windows Azure VM Role is not necessary (most of the time)
  Windows Azure
• Redesign of our Blog
• What’s the price of Windows Azure?
  Windows Azure
• HowTo: migrate an established WebApp to Azure
  Azure
• try out Windows Azure 90 days for free
  Windows Azure
• HowTo: AJAX Actionlink & ASP.NET MVC 3
  AJAX, ASP.NET, MVC3
• Glimpse Web Debugging: Firebug for the Server side
  Glimpse, NuGet
• Create your own cinema
• HowTo: Setup of WebDeploy / MSDeploy
  MSDeploy, Web Deploy
• Package Management for .NET developer: NuGet
  NuGet
• HowTo: use ASP.NET developments in VMWare & iPhone Simulator on a Mac
  ASP.NET, iPhone, Mac, VMWare
• Automatically deployment on windows azure with the help of a buildserver via powershell
  Powershell, Windows Azure
• Best Practice: version check, data base and DB updates... how to split the db in the team?
  data base, version check
• HowTo: detect code depending’s with NDepend & TeamCity
  NDepend, TeamCity
• HowTo: Fileupload with ASP.NET MVC
  ASP.NET MVC, fileupload
• HowToCode: Do we need UML?
  UML
• Best Practice: from Design to HTML Template or at least an MVC Application
  Design, Html, MVC
• HowTo: deactivate #regions on Interface implementations
  regions
• HowTo: jQuery hosted CDN version & local „Fallback“
  CDN, Fallback, jQuery
• HowTo: TeamCity & CodeCoverage with dotCover
  TeamCity
• HowTo: line number in Visual Studio 2010
  line number, Visual Studio 2010
• HowToCode: Development at the Speed and Scale of Google & Continuous Delivery/X
  Continuous Delivery, Google
• HowTo: map your own domains on Windows Azure Applications (*.cloudapp.net)
  Windows Azure
• The passionate programmer
  Chad Fowler. passionate programmer
• HowTo: Sessionless Controller in MVC3 – what & and why?
  MVC3, Sessionless Controller
• Bullshit-Bingo-Online with BizzBingo-RTW
• HowTo: MsBuild &NUnit
  MSBuild, NUnit

2010

• HowTo: apply MVC2 & Html.DropDownListFor
  Html, MVC2
• HowTo: apply StyleCop Settings on several projects
  MSBuild, Settings, StyleCop
• HowTo: MSBuild & StyleCop
  MSBuild, StyleCop
• HowTo: object orientated programming / OOP in Javascript (create a simple class)
  class, Javascript, OOP, programming
• Fix: Windows Azure Tools: Failed to initialize the Development Storage Service
  Azure, Development Storage Service, Error
• HowTo: Web.config Transformations with MSBuild
  MSBuild, Transformations, Web.config
• HowTo: AssemblyInfos – Keep it DRY!
  assembly info, DLL, Don't repeat yourself
• HowTo: Zipping with MSBuild
  HowTo, MSBuild, MSTest, Zip
• HowTo: Open MSTest with MSBuild
  HowTo ; MSBuild ; MSTest
• HowTo: MSDeploy & MSBuild
• HowTo: Google Instant Search-box – different styles included in just one input-field?
• HowTo: build MSBuild Solutions
• HowTo: start visual studio always as administrator
  Admin, start, Visual Studio
• #region == Failcode
• HowTo: 3-tier / 3-Layer architecture:
• HowTo: create and remove Cookies with ASP.NET MVC
• HowTo: Messaging with MSMQ, an introduction
• HowTo: Logging with Log4Net
  .NET, log4net, logging. c#
• HowTo: Time-controlled & recurrent functions in .NET & ASP.NET
  HowTo, Timer, Timers, Zeit
• HowTo: Facebook Connect & ASP.NET MVC
  ASP.NET MVC, Facebook, Facebook Connect, HowTo
• HowTo: Cross Domain Ajax with JSONP and ASP.NET
• HowTo: Introduction in to MetaWebLog API

2009

• Windows 7 RC Training Kit for Developer
  Traning Kit, Windows 7
• Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - May Preview
  .NET, .NET 4.0, Training Kit
• Inside Microsoft's home of the future
  Microsoft, NUI
• Free eBook: Practical .NET Unit Testing
  eBook, Unit Testing
• Free eBook: Testing Chapter from Beginning ASP.NET MVC
  Agil, ASP.NET MVC, eBooks, MVC
• HowTo: Create RSS Feeds with Linq to XML / XLinq
  HowTo, LINQ, LINQ to XML, RSS
• HowTo: Tweet with C#
  HowTo, Tweetsharp, Twitter
• Free eBooks: ADO.NET Entity Framework, Powershell & C#
  ADO.NET EF, C#, eBooks, Powershell
• HowTo: From the view to the controller in ASP.NET MVC with ModelBinders
  ASP.NET MVC, HowTo, ModelBinders
• HowTo: Rename SQL Tables in Visual Studio
  HowTo, SQL, Visual Studio
• HowTo: Setup IIS7 as development server in Visual Studio 2008
  ASP.NET, HowTo, IIS7, Vista
• HowTo: Understanding Interfaces - a simple description
  HowTo, Interfaces
• Live Framework SDK is now public
  Live Framework, Live Mesh, Mesh
• HowTo: First steps with the Windows Azure CTP and the first "HelloWorld"
  ASP.NET, Azure, Cloud, Cloud Computing, HowTo, Web Role, Windows Azure
• HowTo: Hello "Cloud-Computing"
  Amazon, Amazon EC2, AppEngine, Google, HowTo, Phyton, S3, Windows Azure
• 25 Years Microsoft Press - 2 books for free
  Books, MS Press
• HowTo: Create SQL Table Relationships via Drag´n´Drop
  HowTo, Relationships, SQL, Tips
• HowTo: SQL Database web access with ASP.NET Dynamic Data and Entity Framework (hosted on IIS 6.0)
  Admin, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, Dynamic Data, HowTo, IIS 6.0, Routing
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC published
  ASP.NET MVC, MVC
• Windows 7 Beta - First impressions
  Gadgets, Vista, Windows 7
• Monomentale games
  .NET, Games, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mono, unity 3d, Wii
• Microsoft Surface + XNA: Creative touchscreen ideas
  Surface, XNA

2008

• Some notes about ASP.NET MVC RC & the MVC Design Gallery
  ASP.NET MVC, CSS, Design, MVC
• The perfect time to release source code?
  ASP.NET MVC, Community, MVC, Open Source, Oxite, Storefront
• Silverlight & 3D: Photosynth Viewer and other samples
  3D, Photosynth, Silverlight
• HowTo: Use the new ASP.NET Chart Controls with ASP.NET MVC
  ASP.NET MVC, Charting, Charts, HowTo, Microsoft, MVC
• "g-speak" - Minority Report alike UI/operating environment
  Minority Report, Multitouch, UI
• HowTo: First steps with ASP.NET MVC
  ASP.NET MVC
• HowTo: Basics of ASP.NET MVC or why MVC?
  ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, DRY, HowTo, MVC
• HowTo: First Steps with MEF (Hello MEF!)
  AddIns, HowTo, MEF, Plugins, System.AddIn
• Quantum of Silverlight 3
  Silverlight, Silverlight 3
• HowTo: Taskmanagement with Visual Studio (ToDos, Hacks & co.)
  HowTo, Taskmanagement, TFS, Visual Studio
• How Live Mesh Apps may look like...
  Live Mesh, SDK
• "Wow": Photosynth & Unwrap Mosaics
  Deepzoom, Microsoft Research, Photosynth, Surface, Unwrap Mosaics
• HowTo: Use PicLens and other MediaRSS Clients for your own Website (create MediaRSS with LINQ to XML)
  HowTo, LINQ, LINQ to XML, MediaRss, RSS, XLINQ, Xml
• HowTo: Create RSS Feeds with LINQ to XML (XLinq)
  HowTo, LINQ, LINQ to XML, RSS, Xml
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 & Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview released
  Expression Blend 2.5, Silverlight 2, UI
• Steve & Bill...
  Bill Gates, Fun, Steve Ballmer, Windows
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 released
  ASP.NET MVC, MVC
• XNA Game Studio 3.0 CTP: VS 2008 & .NET 3.5
  .NET 3.5, Game, Visual Studio 2008, XNA
• jQuery... some links
  AJAX, Javascript, jQuery
• SQL Injection
  Fun, SQL, SQL Injection
• ASP.NET MVC - Resources
  ASP.NET MVC, MVC
• Information about Live Mesh
  Live, Live Mesh, Microsoft, Windows Live
• Real World High Scalability Applications: The Architectur
  High Scalability
• HowTo: Create PDF by click - on the fly
  Export, FO, Handler, HowTo, nFop, PDF, Xml, XSLT
• UI Prototyping with PowerPoint 2007
  PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2007, Prototyping, UI
• ASP.NET MVC: Using a ActionFilter for logging
  ActionFilters, ASP.NET MVC, log4net, logging
• ASP.NET MVC April CodePlex Source Push
  ASP.NET MVC, Codeplex, MVC
• ASP.NET MVC: Display dynamic data on master pages
  ASP.NET MVC, Components
• [Update] Icons, Icons, Icons... for free!
  Icons
• ASP.NET MVC - "AddIns" on Codeplex
  ASP.NET, Codeplex, jQuery, MVC
• HowTo: LINQ to SQL debugging
  Debugging, HowTo, LINQ, LINQ to SQL
• HowTo: Searchprovider / Browserplugin for IE7 and Firefox - the OpenSearchDescription
  Browser, Firefox, HowTo, IE, IE7, OpenSearchDescription, Xml
• ASP.NET MVC - Pagination View User Control
  ASP.NET MVC, Paging, User Controls