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  • WCF isn’t always so “parallel”

    Here is a little adventure we ran into using WCF. We are using the CustomUserNameValidator and allthough it’s so fun to use, it’s got a few nasty problems… 4 Easy steps to implement into your project: Create a classe that derives from UserNamePasswordValidator Override the Validate method, this method receives the username and password as Read more

  • Visual Studio Android Emulator

    For a while now it has been known that Visual Studio 2015 will ship with an Android emulator. There are a few of these on the market and in my opinion, Microsoft has the fastest and most robust one, especially when developping with Xamarin. Now, for what i am doing lately, i end up running Read more

  • Recapping Build 2015

    I was in San Francisco last week for Microsoft’s Build conference. It was fun and we learned a lot about where Microsoft is going. Monday night, I will be at the Montreal MSDEVMTL user group talking about all of this stuff. Here are the highlights for me : Windows 10 will support the UWP – Read more

  • train tickets and the user experience

    Well, 8 month later, I finally got a ticket for boarding a train without having a valid ticket. The problem is I tried to pay… I was going downtown with my wife after having dropped off the kids at the daycare. It was a Monday morning and this was our first day at this particular Read more

  • TFS Licensing wrap-up

    I have a client which is going through the setup of their development environment. As for TFS, there are three options that look like this.. TFS Express, use for very small teams and must be used with SQL Express. A free option. Buying TFS retail… comes with a limited license for SQL Server and 5 cals. Read more

  • Coincidences coincidences, debugging w3wp.exe

    Yesterday we found a memory leak in one of the web sites we are working on. The process on the test server was up to 10 gigs of memory. Our first though was to open the task manager, click “create dump file”, zip the file, copy it to a machine with Visual Studio on it Read more