Release management with different configurations 26 April 2017 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, Azure, Team System So Visual Studio Team Services now has this automatic deployment option, where you can checkin your [More]
Watch out with calculated DateTime fields in CSOM 25 April 2017 Robrecht-Van-Caenegem SharePoint Development var localDateOnlyValue = ctx.Web.RegionalSettings.TimeZone.UTCToLocalTime((DateTime)item.FieldValues["DateOnly"]); ctx.ExecuteQuery(); I recently came across a baffling issue when using CSOM to connect to a SharePoint Online list to retrieve values from a Date and Time field and another field ca... [More]
Creating connectors for your Logic Apps/Flow (Part 2 – Triggers) 07 March 2017 Michael-Van-Wesemael API Apps, Azure, Flow, Logic Apps In part 1, we saw how to add regular connectors for using in Azure Logic Apps. Remember: the purpose of these blog posts is just for pointing out some gaps in the documentation you'll find on the internet. Next to regular connectors, we can also create connectors to be used as connectors, i.e... [More]
Using Azure VMs as remote R workspaces in R Tools for Visual Studio 02 March 2017 Nico-Jacobs R, Visual Studio Running R on your local laptop is easy: you just download one of the R distributions (CRAN or Microsoft) and kick off RGui.exe. But if you’re a Microsoft oriented developer or data scientist you are probably familiar with Visual Studio. So you download and install R Tools for Visual Studio (RTVS) an... [More]
Creating connectors for your Logic Apps/Flow (Part 1–regular Connectors) 24 February 2017 Michael-Van-Wesemael Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, Logic Apps, API Apps, Flow Azure logic apps have been around for a while now, most of the time as a preview. These apps allow you to create workflow-like apps, by connecting so called Connectors together. These connectors are actually just REST-services, with some extra's, like the exposure of metadata by using Swagger... [More]
Using Microsoft Fakes with mscorlib.dll 29 January 2017 Peter-Himschoot Microsoft Fakes is a tool that allows you to replace any method of any .NET class. This makes it ide [More]
Using Razor outside of MVC for building custom middleware or other generation stuff 16 January 2017 Peter-Himschoot Recently I have been building some asp.net core middleware which involves generating some html from [More]
Simpler checking of arguments with C# 7 throw expressions 13 January 2017 Peter-Himschoot Simpler checking of arguments with C# 7 throw expressionsC# 7 has made a simple and important chan [More]
Markdown taghelper 11 January 2017 Peter-Himschoot U2U.AspNetCore.Mvc.TagHelpersMarkdown MVC6 taghelperThis taghelper will replace itself with [More]
Getting rid of "String based programming" style in dotnet core 10 January 2017 Peter-Himschoot U2U.AspNetCore.Mvc.NameOfThis package updates Mvc6 to allows the use of the nameof() keyword in yo [More]