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A few weeks ago, I was demonstrating a self service BI solution we made for a client and how fun it was to use Excel to visualize the information. Classic pivot tables or row reports could be used as a starting point, but the fun starts when using the power tools. Power Pivot can be used to achieve Read more

A client called me back and said : there is a bug, here is the log. It’s a busy system and the log file reaches about 700 megabytes per day. The problem is searching that log file, when you open it up in Visual Studio it takes a few minutes to open, and the searching Read more

The ASP.NET team just released version of their Identity management package. You can grab it off of nuget or read the official announcement here. Big things like 2 factor authentication and little things like email confirmation have been added to make this a must have for your projects. It is also based on the new Read more

As you should all know by now, SQL Server 2014 is done and will be released in the next few days. Now you can grab the bits and try it, or you can join the Montreal Launch event, hosted by the DotNetMontreal user group and Microsoft. The event will occur on Saturday April 12th in Read more

Another day and another small update for Entity Framework… this time with something I really needed about 1 month ago. I had an entity that was declared like this : public class Sale { [Key] public int Id { get; set; } public virtual int Product_Id { get; set; } [ForeignKey(“Product_Id”)] public virtual Product Product Read more

As most of you know, I am a big fan of Visual Studio for all of developer work. As most of you also know, Visual Studio is a environment that can be extended, and this post is about one of those extensions. I try to keep my Visual Studio clean, in that way, I don’t Read more