So if you’ve even needed to store custom data in your App.config or Web.config files before – you’ve probably used the ConfigurationManager.AppSettings for name/value pair data – but what if you have more complex settings that you want to store…
Year: 2013
Watching dotnetConf, Live 2-days online
Have the dotnetConf live stream up and running while working… Totally free – online 2-day developer conference. It looks to be a fantastic line up of talks both today and tomorrow! Join dotnetConf…
Entity Framework “Code First + Existing Database” 102
Last we saw our intrepid developers they were creating their first “Code First + Migrations” 101 project – today we join them facing the dreaded “we want to do code first, but already have an existing database!!!”. Can they survive?…
Elegantly Randomizing an IEnumerable Collection
Had the need to randomly shuffle an IEnumerable collection that I was bringing back through Entity Framework – so did some searching and came across a couple solutions – some that were completely crazy – but took the best ideas,…
Entity Framework “Code First + Migration” 101
So for those who haven’t used Microsoft Entity Framework’s “Code First” approach to application development – it’s a very powerful approach that allows us developers to spin up a project with a database back end in record time! Early on…
Entity Framework “Code First + Migration” 101
So for those who haven’t used Microsoft Entity Framework’s “Code First” approach to application development – it’s a very powerful approach that allows us developers to spin up a project with a database back end in record time! Early on…
Upcoming Developer Events!
We have a lot of really great events coming up! Wanted to make sure everyone is aware of how many cool events there are – and how dedicated the people that make these events possible are looking to help you!…
Holy Grail of Application Profiling with AOP
What’s the Holy Grail of Application Profiling? Well, it should be… Rich Data – Giving us detailed logging ability, recording which method is being called, where it’s being called from, when it starts, when it stops, overall execution time –and-…
Reading Values from AssemblyInfo.cs
So if you haven’t looked – in VisualStudio projects under the “Properties” folder – there is a file called “AssemblyInfo.cs” – it contains many useful assembly attributes for your project including AssemblyTitle, AssemblyCompany, AssemblyCopyright, AssemblyVersion, etc. My goal was to…
Quotes
“No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. How you adjust to the unforeseen is what determines success. And how you choose who leads determines character.” – Batman via Young Justice, derived historically from Helmuth von Moltke the Elder…