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LinqPad CosmosDb Data Context Driver Update - Part 3

May 12, 2018

In my last post and the one before that I was writing about the process of releasing a new version of my LinqPad CosmosDb DataContext Driver. Those were the two important steps to make before the actual update of the driver — and now, it's finally here. If you just want

LinqPad CosmosDb Data Context Driver Update - Part 2

Akos Nagy

May 9, 2018

In my latest post I described my first steps to update my LinqPad Cosmos Db driver The whole idea was to show how the "backend" of my new and updated driver can be used as a standalone component. This makes updating and maintaining the component much better and also the

LinqPad CosmosDb Data Context Driver Update - Part 1

Akos Nagy

May 7, 2018

A while back I created a CosmosDb data context driver for LinqPad. Originally, I found the request on uservoice and I thought I'd give it a try. The end result was pretty OK, I guess. People started using it; I mean, this is not the "next big thing", but it

Adding logging using Mono.Cecil

Akos Nagy

May 5, 2018

A while back (actually, it's been a long while) I found an interesting question on Stackoverflow. The question was about adding logging to method calls automatically. Or to rephrase: the question was basically about handling aspect-oriented programming using Mono.Cecil in .NET. So given this piece of code: public class

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Akos Nagy

May 2, 2018

As you can probably see from my blog posts, I'm not really a front-end guy. If push comes to shove, I can manage some basic css, js and html but it's not really my thing. But sometimes, push does come to shove. As I was building the little promo website

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Using Cognitive Services from Excel via PowerQuery

Akos Nagy

Apr 25, 2018

I have a client that I regularly consult with about various .NET application development tasks. One time they were describing me a particular piece of software that supports product logistics. One part of the process is that products are basically assembled on a conveyor belt. They also showed me the

Throwback Thursday: Typed SQL reader

Akos Nagy

Apr 19, 2018

I've found an old HDD of mine and I got curious: what's on it? I had an old 3,5" HDD to USB adapter lying around and to my surprise, it was still working :) So I put the HDD in it, connected it to my 21st century notebook (actually, the

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Code snippet for databound properties in MVVM

Akos Nagy

Apr 15, 2018

As you can read in the last couple of posts (like this, or this), I've been working with WPF for the last couple of weeks. Not very fun. I'm doing mostly the VMs and that involves a lot of property change notifications. We use the MVVMLight toolkit for basic MVVM

Stackoverflow Adventures: Why can I not return a reference to a dictionary value?

Akos Nagy

Apr 11, 2018

A while back I found a question on SO about returning a reference to a dictionary value. Here's the code sample from the question that also explains the question itself: public class PropertyManager { private Dictionary _values = new Dictionary(); private string[] _values2 = new string[1]; private List

Danger Zone: The dark side of C# 7 ref return

Akos Nagy

Apr 8, 2018

C# 7.0 introduced the new feature of ref return and ref locals. I have to say, I wasn't sure about the actual usefulness of the feature, but with the recent additions of reference semantics with value types in C# 7.2 I do see how they can be useful,

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