Day 1 of Microsoft Connect 2017 was today. What a slew of announcements and new products/services! Here is my top 3: Visual Studio Live Share Don't tell me, show me! Share the current state of your code and debugger with someone else, next to you or across the world. It's for both Visual Studio 2017 … Continue reading Microsoft Connect(); 2017 Day 1 Announcements
Category: .NET
Since I've been developing software again, I've had to sharpen my skills on the latest enterprise architecture patterns and how they are used in .NET. The Repository and UnitOfWork patterns aren't new, but implementing them correctly to achieve the most benefit without going overboard is nevertheless a learning curve. I found a presentation posted on … Continue reading My first NuGet package: Repository and UnitOfWork patterns for EF 6.1.3
During my talk at the Alabama Code Camp, I demonstrated how you can host a SOAP web service in a WinForms application (or a Windows Service, etc.). However, my solution required the use of SOAP over TCP, which does make it less interoperable. Angel Machin has a post that would allow any .NET application to … Continue reading Hosting HTTP Web Services without IIS
After reading two blog posts ([1], [2]) about Nullable Types and consulting the beta documentation for .NET 2.0, here is what works in VB.NET (and not more than that from what I can gather): Dim i As System.Nullable(Of Integer) i = 10 ' Nothing new here | pun intended ;o) i = Nothing ' OK, … Continue reading .NET 2.0: Nullable types in VB.NET
Sven Aelterman 