Part 1 of a series about what happens when you stop giving AI instructions and start listening. I’ve been coding since 1985. Commodore 64, assembler, then decades of .net, cloud, Terraform, Big Data. I run my own consulting business. I’ve been around long enough to not get easily impressed by technology. So let’s try something […]
Autofac on Azure Functions. Azure still keeps evoling a lot. The next new and hot thing is Azure Functions. What makes Azure Function attractive? In the past six months I did have a look onto Azure Functions more often, but was on one hand pretty busy with a move to a different company and on the […]
Yesterday I got a message from a collegue of mine that building a solution with Visual Studio failed ungracefully. He directly got the sources from git freshly, there was no interaction by him. I checked my last commits and couldn’t see anything that was wrong. So I just got all the sources in a new place and […]
I just experienced this System.BadImageFormatException. Could not load file or assembly ‘System.Fabric, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. The unit test shall test a Azure Service Bus connection. Yes, sure it is a unit test and the service bus connection actually should […]
I recently had some discussions about TDD. I personally never tried to accomplish the procedure seriously. So I wanted to invest a little time to understand if it does fit to my needs, especially if it is more effective in short and long term perspective. I wanted to use a simple example. Not too complex and […]
This is a good old issue, how to know where the program spends most of its time? If you want to spend the money, the best profiling tool from my point of view is still JetBrains’ DotTrace. You’ll get a lot of information down on method level, great stuff. But how can the program execution time be […]
Recently I had to deal with good old VBA. The product I had to do a bugfix/ heavy testing for is completely written in C#, but automates Office. Mostly Excel, but also PowerPoint all running as a service. I had the pleasure to implement an automatic logon with Excel for BEx. BEx, aka SAP Business […]
Two days ago a collegue and I made a review of the brand new asp.net core implementation. We have been pretty exicted about it. Core promises to be more lightweight, well thought through, much faster …and it finally uses dependency injection. Time to give it a try and leave web api/ asp.net mvc behind. First review […]
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 […]