dotnet falcon

Blogging about .NET and software development - from my bird's eye view

Auditing EF Code First Migrations

Auditing EF Code First Migrations

Akos Nagy
Feb 26, 2017
EF Code First is awesome. I cannot emphasize enough how useful, intuitive and overall amazing it is (though I tried to do just that in this post, so I won't start it again). One problem that usually comes up against EF Code First is that you cannot handle
Publish obfuscated and signed assemblies with ClickOnce

Publish obfuscated and signed assemblies with ClickOnce

Akos Nagy
Feb 19, 2017
Let me start off by saying: ClickOnce is not awesome. Or at least I think so. Unfortunately, when it comes to publishing thick-clients (yes, I still have to do that on occassion, like we used to in the 2000s), there is no good alternative. Everything else I know about has
Azure Automation Job for Index Maintenance

Azure Automation Job for Index Maintenance

Akos Nagy
Feb 14, 2017
Indices are good (yes, technically that is the plural form of index). They help you when you search for things - and that's mostly what databases are all about. But indices are only good if they are maintained. When you do your inserts and deletes, indices can become
Adding custom parts to an xlsx workbook

Adding custom parts to an xlsx workbook

Akos Nagy
Feb 2, 2017
A while back I came across an interesting task. Basically there was an xml document which we used in one of our applications. It was a special resource file: the structure was maintained by us, but the contents were maintained by the customer. One day we decided that it would
Introducing dotnet Falcon

Introducing dotnet Falcon

Akos Nagy
Jan 16, 2017
Welcome, dear potential reader. I know you are probably busy, so I'll keep this short. Who am I? I am a software engineer, more specifically, a .NET software engineer. I specialize in back-end development and Azure. The other pieces of information are probably not so relevant, but just