Part 1: Analysis & Design This is the first of six articles about how an IoT project with certain constraints and prerequisites was implemented. I have to confess, I never spent so much time on different approaches how to implement a certain piece of software than on this. Part 1: (this one) Analysis & Design […]
Category: .net
Transition on-premise software to cloud
What does transition mean and what is necessary for being successful with it? Having an eye onto the market, architects with knowledge about how to transition existing on-premise products to the cloud may be one of the most interested and demanded skills of an architect. Pretty much every company with on-premise software now needs to think […]
Predefined type “System.Void” is not defined or imported – Visual Studio builds fine but screws up everything in text editors
Hitting the phenomen Recently I went to a different machine. My company allowed for newer faster machines. Perfect to set up everything again and clean up. I needed to open an older project that I had been working on two months before. This is an asp.net core 1.1.2 solution that works on .net framework 4.6.1. I […]
Had been a long time since I’ve seen SendKeys
Back in the old times when I programmed in VBA/ VB sometimes there was the necessity to use … workarounds. A very popular especially in Excel development was DoEvents. Have a look onto this official sample by Microsoft: ‘ Create a variable to hold number of Visual Basic forms loaded ‘ and visible. Dim I, […]
Logging with log4net and Windsor Castle in c#
Quite a while ago I had a good talk with an colleague about “to log or not to log – that is the question”. 😉 That was a longer discussion, and a lot of questions had been raised: Shall we do logging? What shall be logged out? Should we create a log library by ourselves to […]
How to do sensible logging in c#
In last post about Are Extensions the beauty or the beast? I added a screenshot that showed a class implementing the repository pattern. This actually also showed the implementation of our log strategy. I did get some questions why we do it like this and what are the benefits. Let’s have a look onto how we do it: […]
Coding principles: Are extensions the beauty or the beast?
The other day a collegue of mine came to me, being pretty enthusiastic. He was amazed about his latest changes to the code. As I am the responsible architect, it is my turn to have a look onto the changes. So we sat together and did so. Usually we create our code via straight rules and best practices. As […]
Coding principles: These assembly/ folder structures… suck.
We need to move people from time to time between products. It can be tough when you move from SSIS/ Sql/ SAP stuff to job-based Excel automation. How can we make a hard task easy? The very first things that developer see are the assemblies and the folder structures. Let me first put some bad examples for assembly […]
Microsoft Graph & Excel API: Waterfall Charts with d3js as Office 365 Addin – is that already stable?
Did you hear about Waterfall? No, I don’t mean the oldschool development practice of the NASA to ensure that a rocket-powered aircraft will fly in space forever. I mean Waterfall charts: These charts do add some value for business users as they are different. They do not just show data, they show data with a […]
Evolution of methodic
Let me take you to a short journey how I started with programming, where it went to, and how the actual methodic, thinking and doing evoled. This will have the following posts: It all started with i=i+1 Melting the metal Going to Windows 3.11, I need (MS) access Why is there any system without a database? Going to VB6 […]