Category Archives: Development
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
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
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
Implementing the Excel Simulator in F#
Introduction In my previous post we talked about how to structure an Excel workbook to make it easy to perform changes. As a side effect we have now a good idea of what is the data, and what is the … Continue reading
Improving throughput by using queue-based patterns
Introduction In my current project we let the users run simulations. Because of flexibility, the calculations are performed by Excel spreadsheets. There are many different spreadsheets available, for different kinds of simulations. When the calculations rules for one of the … Continue reading
Knockout, self, this, TypeScript. Are you still following?
Introduction I’m working on an MVC application with simple CRUD operations. I want the following functionality (don’t mind the Flemish (Dutch) titles): Remember, I’m “graphically handicapped”, so I’m afraid that my users will have to do with the standard Bootstrap … Continue reading
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