Deploy your site to Azure from Github private repositories
Last June I attended Microsoft Tech Ed in Amsterdam. During the event the main focus in ASP.NET development was on Azure, the Microsoft cloud solution. I didn’t had the time yet to play around with...
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NetBash is a small utility u can use in MVC projects created by Luke Lowrey. It’s an alternative for endless administrative pages for every function you need. It’s nested in your view and styled as a...
View ArticleSynchronizing recipients with MailChimp lists
MailChimp is an online service for sending professional looking email newsletters. They have a built in template designer but you can simply import your own designs from file or URL. For small...
View ArticleSynchronizing recipients with MailChimp lists part II
In the last post (Synchronizing recipients with MailChimp lists) we’ve seen how we can fetch the mists that are configured in MailChimp. In this part we’ll add subscribers to the mist and get the...
View ArticleUsing MVC frontend pages in Umbraco 4.11.1
Umbraco CMS Umbraco had a rough year, is the least we can say . After working on version 5 from the bottom up for almost 2 years they decided beginning 2012 to stop the version 5 with reason. Although...
View ArticleThe hard search for missing Extension methods in Umbraco 4.7.0
Implementing SignalR For one of our company websites we got the question from HR to implement a chatbox on the website so interested candidates could contact them in an easy way. After comparing a few...
View ArticleCreating graphs in WPF using OxyPlot
For one of our projects we had to retrieve data from an external source and store them in a database. One of the requests from the client was to see the retrieved data in a graph. Furthermore, he...
View ArticleCreating a JIRA interface in 1-2-3
For one of our projects where close to the first test release. While preparing the necessary documents (test overview, legal documents, bug report, …) I felt a bit ashamed to give the client a Word...
View ArticleRoadmap for ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, and ASP.NET Web Pages
I saw a tweet from John Galloway (@jongalloway) coming by this evening that can interest any developer in the ASP.NET stack. It’s a draft of the features that Microsoft want to include in the next...
View ArticleSearching with a Lucene.NET wrapper
For a project we’re currently working on we needed to be able to search on different fields that are shown to the end user. We didn’t want to rely fully on the SQL server Full Text Search capabilities....
View ArticlePersonal DEVIntersections review
It’s a fast moving world for software developers. New frameworks, functions, possibilities, are rising up almost every day. Although you can find many resources online in different formats (blogs,...
View ArticleAutomatic deploy your website from Teamcity to Azure
Deploy to Azure from Visual Studio The tooling in Visual Studio is great, you can easily deploy from Visual Studio to file, servers, Azure, Docker, … Deploying to Azure is as simple as downloading a...
View ArticleUnit testing Entity Framework Core–Mocking DBSet Async methods
While working on a new project I decided to use Entity Framework core as the project had a very simple setup and didn’t needed to complex Database settings or queries. A perfect use case to try out EF...
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