I have amassed a lot of code. When I’m creating a new web application, this is handy because it provides me with a good basis. However, I’ve never gone to the trouble of wrapping all of this into a template to eliminate the redundancy.
Creating Visual Studio Templates Part 1
posted on April 24, 2016 by long2know in ASP.NET, Microsoft, Web
Ubuntu on Windows
posted on March 30, 2016 by long2know in Microsoft
I’ve been watching the latest developments from Microsoft’s Build Conference today, and one of the more interesting things is Microsoft’s incorporation of Ubuntu into Windows 10.
Deploying Node.js to Azure
posted on December 10, 2015 by long2know in Azure, node
If you recall my previous post on Node.js, I explored developing a Node.js app with Visual Studio. Using this approach makes it very easy to deploy and test with Visual Studio directly to Azure. However, I wanted to work with a more cross-platform approach using Visual Studio Code and continuous deployment with Azure’s Github integration.
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Developing and Deploying .NET Applications on Linux (Part 1)
posted on September 7, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, Microsoft
As a web developer primarily utilizing .NET for backend server development, and as one who uses Linux for my own hosting environments, Microsoft’s efforts to make .NET 5 cross platform are welcome. Over the Labor Day weekend, I spent a bit of time seeing how I could leverage this to host .NET web applications myself. While I mention Mint Linux, specifically, this guide should apply to any Debian/Ubuntu derivatives.
Weird OWIN Middleware Behavior
posted on September 3, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, Microsoft, OWIN, Security
Previously, I blogged about writing your own handler to hook into the OWIN middleware pipeline. I’ve been using the handler I described in that post for quite some time now.
However, after a bit of QA, I noticed at least one strange behavior.
Visual Studio Code
posted on August 10, 2015 by long2know in Microsoft
Over the weekend, I started moving various source files over to github. Typically, I just use Notepad2 for basic editing and such.
However, after all the good things I read, and have seen, about Visual Studio Code, I finally decided to give it a try as a basic editor.
Microsoft LogParser
posted on May 15, 2015 by long2know in Microsoft, Testing, Web
Earlier today, after a system outage, I was sent a W3C IIS Log to take a look at.
After staring at this log for a few minutes in Notepad2, my eyes started to glaze over. Basically, staring at system or IIS logs with a text editor is useless if there are tons of events or requests.
I knew there are plenty of parsing tools out there for log analysis, and I had used some before. Unfortunately, I had none of these tools installed on my laptop. Googling quick lead me to a Microsoft tool called ‘LogParser’ that I had never heard of before.
Moving an Entity Framework Code First Database and Appication to Azure
posted on May 15, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, Azure, Database, Entity Framework, Microsoft
I’m still playing with Azure and getting a full fledged application working and hosted using the Azure services. As I showed yesterday, setting up a Web App is pretty easy.
The next step for me involves moving an Entity Framework Database using Migrations to Azure.
Getting started with Azure Web App hosting
posted on May 14, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, Azure, Microsoft
With all of the hoopla lately about Azure, I have been playing with it, and Application Insights, for the past few weeks.
One thing that I hadn’t really delved into is its .NET Web App hosting. As an MSDN subscriber, many of the cloud services are offered in some form of free capacities. This includes Web App and Azure SQL hosting.
Exploring Node.js
posted on May 13, 2015 by long2know in JavaScript, Microsoft, Web
After Ignite, and especially after viewing the the latest features of VS2015 RC, ASP.NET 5.0, and .NET Core 5.0, my interest in Node.js was finally piqued. Admittedly, I had mostly ignored Node.js up to this point. As a primarily Angular/JavaScript developer, the aspect of using JavaScript for server-side is becoming increasing appealing.
Let me preface this by stating that I’m a noob when it comes to node. This really is my first time diving into its feature set.
For a brief history, Node.js is a runtime environment that uses the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine to execute JavaScript on a server. This also provides web hosting and other niceties to run both console apps and web-hosting apps. Spinning up, for example, an API through Node becomes a pretty straight-forward and powerful capability.