.NET

One of the things I am very interested in is the .NET stack and especially the .NET Core platform. In this blog post I want to briefly highlight what it takes to get a sample .NET Core application up and running on Azure and how to use New Relic’s Application […]

APM with Microsoft .NET Core on Azure

September 20, 2017 in .NET / ASP.NET / Azure / Cloud tagged .NET / .NET Core / APM / ASP.NET / Azure / New Relic by harry

As a side project, I recently worked on creating a mobile app for Android (and iOS to be completed). To be honest, the development effort was quite straight forward. The development stack focused on Xamarin, because I do not know a thing about creating a native app for Android nor […]

Azure Mobile Center … and the art of debugging :-)

March 30, 2017 in .NET / Azure / Cloud / Microsoft tagged .NET / Android / API / Azure / Azure Mobile Center / C# / Cloud / Microsoft / Xamarin by harry

Background and Basics In a recent project engagement, we were assigned the job to migrate a COBOL-based mainframe application to a new environment. The core theme specifically for this project follows a re-hosting approach. The reasoning for this type of approach is agreed upon with the customer mainly due to […]

What the heck is a parser-combinator?

February 28, 2017 in .NET / Application Modernization tagged .NET / application modernization / C# / FastParse / JCL / Microsoft / parser combinator / PowerShell / Scala by harry

Skype for Windows Phone is now officially available in Marketplace. Download it now here. It supports free voice and video calls to other Skype users (or cheaper calls to landlines and other cell phones with Skype Credit) along with other cool features like portrait mode video calling, support for joining […]

Windows Phone: Skype 1.0 now in Marketplace

April 23, 2012 in .NET / Microsoft / Windows Phone 7 tagged .NET / Microsoft / Skype / Windows Phone 7 / WP7 by harry

If you always wanted to learn how to script using PowerShell, this tool makes it even easier to learn and explore all the cool features. Very nice new experience of guidance and content. Check it out at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=29101

Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell (pre-release)

March 20, 2012 in .NET / Microsoft tagged .NET / Microsoft / PowerShell by harry

If you have some knowledge of Silverlight and .NET it will be so easy to leverage your knowledge and develop for WP7 codenamed Mango. Please see this new ad for Mango update: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpI8252TieM&feature=player_embedded]!

Windows Phone 7 – new update named Mango coming soon

September 3, 2011 in .NET / Microsoft / Silverlight / Windows Phone 7 tagged .NET / Mango / Microsoft / Silverlight / Windows Phone 7 / WP7 by harry

Today I uploaded my first Windows Phone 7 Mango app to Microsoft’s App Hub. It is all about the service provided by OnlineTvRecorder.com. It talks to their API to view TV programs/schedules, shows your own recordings as well as future highlights and top-recordings. An integrated search lets you search the […]

Yay! my first Windows Phone 7 Mango app officially published

September 2, 2011 in .NET / Microsoft / Silverlight / Windows Phone 7 tagged .NET / Microsoft / Silverlight / Windows Phone 7 / WP7 by harry

The other day I played around with the newest release of the Windows Phone 7 SDK (7.1 Beta 2) and started by using the base application template. I created a new class that serves as the entity definition for the view model. The data is bound to a list box. […]

Windows Phone 7: application development caveat with ViewModel entity class

August 26, 2011 in .NET / Microsoft / Windows Phone 7 tagged .NET / Microsoft / Windows Phone 7 / WP7 by harry

Check this out: I just read this post from Scott Hanselman about an upcoming release from the entity framework team. This really sounds like a dream come true. For very long time now, I had to struggle with updates to database schemas. In almost any custom software development project you […]