Author Archives: Gaston
Using an F# DSL to generate C# code
My current project is for a company called HDMP (The website is in Dutch / French). We make software for medical practitioners. I am working on a service that communicates with web services created by the Belgian government. The services … Continue reading
Sending notifications with Corona updates to thousands of doctors
During the Corona crisis, our (Belgian) government sends out regular updates for medical professionals. I created a small UWP app that will notify all the subscribed doctors when new information is available. The doctors can download and install this application … Continue reading
In many of my posts I talk about how to perform specific actions and tasks using MS Azure. If you don’t have an account yet, here is how you can create a test account easily. Continue reading
How to use Microsoft Azure Key Vault
Introduction In this post I will describe how to set up and use an Azure key vault to store your secret values. Sometimes we see secrets like storage keys and connection strings written as literals in the code of a … Continue reading
Creating multiple identical VMs in Microsoft Azure
In this post I show how to create an image from a VM in Microsoft Azure, and use this to create identical VMs. Continue reading
Why would you use Common Table Expressions?
Introduction In this article I suppose that you have a good understanding of SQL already. I will introduce some concepts very briefly before moving on to Common Table Expressions. Below you can find the relevant database diagram of the database … Continue reading
Creating a Visio Add-In in VS2017
Problem statement A good friend asked me the following question: How can I in Visio change the color to a previously selected color just by selecting a shape? Sounds simple enough, but there are some caveats, so here is my … Continue reading
Architecture of a Polyglot Azure Application
Introduction I started working on a C# project that will communicate requests to several different partners, and receive feedback from them. Each partner will receive requests in their own way. This means that sending requests can (currently) be done by … Continue reading
Areas in ASP.NET Core
Introduction In a default MVC application everything is organized by Controllers and Views. The controller name determines the first part of your URL, and the controller method the second part. By default the view that will be rendered has the … Continue reading
Automating the creation of NuGet packages with different .NET versions
Introduction I created a couple of straightforward libraries to be used in almost every project. So evidently these libraries are a good candidate for NuGet. This will decouple the libraries from the projects that they are used in. It also … Continue reading
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