A couple of days ago I read a very cool blog post by Scott Hanselman about Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures.
I had never heard about the word ligatures, but he explains it quite well. They are ‘characters’ which are made up by combining multiple individual characters as one. Apparently this is quite common in the Arabic languages. Well, no matter, the thing that does matter is the fact you can use this inside your development environment also!
Read more →Lately, I’ve been busy learning more about creating serverless solutions. Because my main interest lies within the Microsoft Azure stack I surely had to check out the Azure Functions offering.
Azure Functions enable you to create a serverless solutions which are completely event-based. As it’s located within the Azure space, you can integrate easily with all of the other Azure services, like for example the service bus, Cosmos DB, storage, but also external services like SendGrid and GitHub!
Read more →In my previous post I’ve described how to use Application Insights and use it within your new web application. Most of us aren’t working in a greenfield project, so new solutions have to be integrated with the old.
The project I’m working on uses log4net for logging messages, exceptions, etc. In order for us to use Application Insights, we had to search for a solution to integrate both. After having done some research on the subject we discovered this wasn’t a big problem.
Read more →Some time ago the Application Insights became available as a preview in the Azure portal. Application Insights helps you monitor the state of an application, server, clients, etc. As said, it’s still in preview, but it’s rather stable and very easy to use and implement in your applications.
The documentation is still being worked on, but with all the getting started guides on the Microsoft site you can kick start your project with it in a couple of minutes.
Read more →On some installations of Visual Studio 2010, 2012 or 2013 I’m confronted with strange behavior. One of these strange things are the black lines in the Watch Window of Visual Studio. Just like the screenshot below (this isn’t my screenshot, I’ve ‘borrowed’ it from someone else)
Normally this has something to do with the graphics driver, but updating these drivers doesn’t work all the times. There’s also a work around for this problem, described on the MSDN forum.
Read more →The solutions in the project I’m working on are quite big and can easily take up 30 to 90 seconds to build, even though we have rather fast laptops. This is probably because of some build-plugins we are forced to use and the tight SharePoint integration of those plugins. Nevertheless, it’s quite annoying to see Visual Studio ‘hang’ every time you build your solution.
Last week I had some time on my hands to do some research on how we could improve these long builds.
Read more →Because of a failing hard drive I had to re-install my Windows installation, including cloning all of my BitBucket repositories back to my projects folder.
Getting all the solutions back on the local development machine is very easy, but after opening, I discovered they couldn’t be build anymore. The reason for this: several references were missing. This wasn’t that strange at all, because these references were libraries pulled pulled down via NuGet and not pushed into the repository.
Read more →Aan mij was de taak om een applicatie te schrijven welke informatie van SharePoint (Wiki sites) website kon wegschrijven naar HTML bestanden met een bepaalde opmaak.
Niks aan de hand, ware het niet dat ik op m’n Windows 2008 VM zowel MOSS 2007 als Visual Studio 2010 had geinstalleerd. Bij het toevoegen van de benodigde references kwam ik er ineens achter dat ik de SharePoint 2007 DLL’s niet kon vinden in de lijst.
Read more →Onlangs liep ik weer tegen het probleem aan dat ik de PublicKeyToken van m’n gegenereerde assembly moest zien te vinden. Er zijn natuurlijk verschillende mogelijkheden om hier achter te komen, maar de mooiste is toch wel de tip van Jeremia Clark.
Op z’n weblog heeft hij beschreven hoe hij de token krijgt door middel van het aanmaken van een nieuw External Tools commando, de link: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/miah/archive/2008/02/19/visual-studio-tip-get-public-key-token-for-a-stong-named-assembly.aspx
Het is dus de bedoeling om een nieuw commando te maken welke sn.
Read more →Ik had in VS2010b2 een probleem dat er bij javascript geen IntelliSense verscheen. Na het melden van deze bug bij MS Connect hebben ze het geregistreerd en met een tijdelijke workaround gekomen.
Wat blijkt, als je de target wijzigt in bijvoorbeeld XHTML1.1 krijg je gelijk IntelliSense die je wilt.
Wat ook wordt aangeraden is om al je settings te resetten. Op zich kan dat wel natuurlijk, maar dat is niet echt ideaal.
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