My home computer got infected with a virus last week. I wish I could say it was my kids fault or my wifes, but I have to admit that it was completely my fault. I wanted to document the process I went through once I realized my computer was infected for anyone else that might … Continue reading What I Did When My Computer Got Infected With a Virus

I was recently working on a console application that needed to store data locally. I had initially started by storing the data in files serialized as JSON, but the program needed the ability to perform queries over the data. I could have used LINQ to Objects after reading in the existing JSON files, but I … Continue reading Exploring SQLite’s new JSON Library

One design pattern related to micro services that I have read about and wanted to try to implement is correlation id's. Correlation id's allow distributed tracing within complex service oriented platforms, where a single request into the application can often be dealt with by multiple downstream services. Without the ability to correlate downstream service requests … Continue reading Implementing Correlation Ids in ASP.NET MVC 6 Part 1

I am creating a new template project that implements a number of new technologies and design patterns that I have been wanting to learn more about and will be sharing want I learn along the way. Serilog The first thing I wanted to do was setup Serilog in a new ASP.NET MVC 6 project. I came across … Continue reading Setting up a New MVC 6 Project with Serilog, DryIoc, and xUnit.net

I came across an interesting bug this morning in Team Foundation Server 2013 Update1 were a team member was in the Readers, Contributors, and Project Administrators groups for a project. You would expect him to have a union of the permissions granted by those roles as long as none of the roles explicitly denied a … Continue reading Team Foundation Server Permissions Oddity

I am currently researching the new ASP.NET 5 configuration system. Microsoft has re-architected it to provide the following features. Strongly typed classes for configuration values Automatic type conversion from configuration store to class properties Default values for configuration values Optional encryption of individual keys using the user secrets store Support for multiple configuration objects simultaneously … Continue reading ASP.NET 5 Configuration

What is a container? Operating-system-level visualization What is Docker? Docker and Linux Containers Docker What is Docker? Docker Registry Docker Orchestration Docker Machine Docker Swarm Docker Compose Docker Command Line (CLI) Containers in Azure Visual Studio 2015 RC Tools for Docker - Preview The Docker Virtual Machine Extension for Linux on Azure Tutorials/Training Scott Hanselman's … Continue reading Containers