One thing I’ve found over time is you can never find licensing details for VS and SQL products when you need them, so here’s the link for VS2012 Licensing details
I quite like what Microsoft is doing with these white papers, the use case examples are really useful and answer most usage questions.
I guess the obvious answer is “yes” as there is always notepad and command line compilation, but if you want to use Visual Studio or do anything with IIS, Message Queues, etc. then the answer quickly becomes a frustrating no! This hasn’t usually been a problem, but having just started in a new job which…
I’ve just installed MVC3.0 on a fresh PC using the new web installer application and was surprised at how long it seemed to be taking. Digging around a bit deeper I remembered that in the options I’d selected to use IIS rather than IIS Express and taking a quick look at the service panel highlighted…
Having recently taken a look at NServiceBus, the first obstacle that I encountered was that it was not compatible with the version of Castle Windsor which we were using. Luckily due to the design of NServiceBus adding a new version of an IoC framework is relatively painless if you follow a couple of basic steps…
In part 3 we created a SQL repository object that took a populated instance of IQuery to select/return an enumerable list of objects. A limitation of the repository was that the query had to be text-based, it couldn’t handle stored procedures and/or parameters. By incorporating an abstract factory pattern we can extend the functionality to…
If you’re trying to access a class library (.NET Standard) from a traditional console application (in VS2017 those can be found under ‘Windows Classic Desktop’) you will run into problems; which can feel a little strange for something that was pretty simple in VS2015 and earlier. You can add a reference to the class library…
Just as I start getting up to speed with WF4.0 MSDN magazine publishes an article detailing what’s new in WF4.5. It looks like there’s a lot of good stuff coming but the main thing that I noticed was that v4.0 requires full-trust to run. That shouldn’t be a problem for the project we’re intending to…