.NET Core 5 event 09 June 2015 Peter-Himschoot So yesterday at U2U we had a little Post-/BUILD event, where I did a session on the new stuff in Vis [More]
ASP.NET 5 Configuration 29 May 2015 Peter-Himschoot So I've been playing around with ASP.NET 5 and of course I encountered the new configuration model. [More]
What I remember about /Build 2015 05 May 2015 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development The excitement was there again, in San Francisco, where Microsoft displayed their latest innovations [More]
Our Apple Swift event 13 October 2014 Peter-Himschoot On september 30th we had an event about Apple development and their new Swift language at the U2U offices, comparing Swift to C# and giving people an idea what Apple development with Xcode looks like. Some people asked if we would make the slides available, so here they are.SwiftEvent.pdf (2.2MB)
ADAL at Techorama 10 June 2014 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, Azure At Techorama I gave a presentation about Active Directory Authentication Libraries (ADAL) and how you can easily use these to add authentication to your mobile apps.The session slides can be found hereADAL.pptx (1.2MB)
Make your startup task a Windows Azure startup plugin and easily re-use it 31 August 2011 Peter-Himschoot In a previous blog I showed you how to create a startup task to install certain requirements in Azure Compute. In this blog post I will show you how you can easily turn this startup task into a re-usable plugin. This post continues with the startup post. Open the UsingStartupTasks lab solution. Rig... [More]
Excellent intro to Windows Azure 23 July 2011 Peter-Himschoot Azure, .NET Development If you want an excellent introduction into Windows Azure I can recommend “Windows Azure: Step by Step” from Roberto Brunetti. This book will teach you the basic components of Windows Azure and how to build an application with them. It will introduce you to Azure Compute, Azure Storage and Azure AppF... [More]
Windows Azure Toolkit for social games 20 July 2011 Peter-Himschoot Azure, VS2010, .NET Development Marrying Azure and HTML5: Microsoft released today the Windows Azure Toolkit for social games: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/07/20/build-your-next-game-with-the-windows-azure-toolkit-for-social-games.aspx
Installing requirements using Azure startup tasks 12 July 2011 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, Azure, VS2010 Windows Azure deploys your azure web or worker role in the cloud, on a machine with Windows Server 2008 and .NET 4 pre-installed. But what if you need an additional requirement? What if you need to install some performance counter, or if you need some other piece of software like the media encoder? ... [More]
Storing message in table storage 10 July 2011 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, Entity Framework, Azure, VS2010 In my previous post I looked at getting started with table storage, in this one we will create a table for our entities and store them. As you’ll see, quite easy! So, to store an entity in table storage you start by creating a TableServiceEntity derived class (recap from previous post): public cla... [More]