The configuration part of Log4Net often causes severe headaches. Most of the times, a small mistakes prevents any log output
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Entity Framework Performance Resources
Today, I stumbled upon a great article on Entity Framework performance gotchas and ways to make stuff faster. The article
Continue reading.NET Power Tip 5: Examining .NET Callstacks on Running Application with Sysinternals Process Explorer
This blog post shows how you can use Sysinternals Process Explorer to examine .NET Processes at runtime without installing any
Continue reading.NET Power Tip 4: Playing with Format Strings
Many developers heavily underestimate the power of the format string. This post shows a couple of examples that can
Continue readingVS2015 New Debugging and Performance Features (German)
I wrote an article for the August 2015 edition of Windows Developer Magazin that introduces the new debugging features in
Continue readingWPF: The Infragistics WPF Roadmap – WPF IS NOT DEAD!
Today I stumbled across an interesting whitepaper by Infragistics. It is called “The Windows Presentation Foundation Roadmap: 2015 and Beyond”.
Continue reading.NET PowerTip 2: Writing Data to Excel
Every now and then, developers have to write data to excel. There are several approaches: 1. Full fledged Excel Interop:
Continue readingVS2015 Debugging and Performance Features: PerfTips
Visual Studio 2015 holds a couple of interesting features for the interested debugger and troubleshooter. This blog post will elaborate
Continue reading.NET Power Tip 1–Save a .NET Assembly as a Visual Studio Project (*.csproj) with ILSpy
This blog post introduces ILSpy and shows the lesser known feature that allows you to decompile foreign assemblies and
Continue readingWPF is Back! And becoming even more Powerful!
I am really happy that we can finally see more and more activity around Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) by Microsoft.
Continue readingMicrosoft TechTalk: S.O.L.I.D. Principles and DDD
On September 18, 2014, I held a Tech Talk at the Microsoft Switzerland Offices in Walisellen. The title was “Enterprise
Continue readingAzureAdventures: Setting up the Adventureworks Database in under 10 Minutes
This blog post will show you how easy it is to set up the famous Adventureworks database using the Microsoft
Continue readingGetting started with Orchard CMS – The Modules and Features you need
After having installed Orchard as shown in http://www.12qw.ch/2014/03/getting-started-with-orchard-cms-installing-orchard it is very important to know what the first modules are that
Continue readingGetting started with Orchard CMS – Installing Orchard
Orchard CMS is a free Content Management System (CMS) based on Microsoft ASP.NET MVC. http://www.orchardproject.net/ Orchard is very powerful due
Continue readingUsing Complex Event Processing (CEP) with Microsoft StreamInsight to Analyze Twitter Tweets 7: The Sample Application 3
Note: This post is one of a series, the overview can be found here: Complex Event Processing with StreamInsight Writing the
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