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Azure Logic App and passing multi-value parameters to a Stored Procedure

Recently I had the need to pass multiple values to a stored procedure in a Logic App setup. Turned out it wasn't straight plug-and-play OOTB but still fairly easy to

nginx

Running HTTPS on Nginx with Let's Encrypt

After reading the title you'll by now most likely have noticed that my blog runs HTTPS. This is short summary of what it actually took to do this and a

ghost

Ghost syntax highlighting

This is essentially just a quick note to myself but you might find it useful as well. Here is how you can add [code] syntax highlighting to your ghost blog in less than 5 minutes. Go and download Prism JS Place the js file

angularjs

AngularJS ng-change event is not defined in Firefox

I recently stumbled upon an interesting issue on a project using AngularJS v1.3.15. One day I was told that there were some issues with a drop-down list in

c# 7

C# 7 Local functions

C# 7 is well underway yet many .NET developers are just getting acquainted with C# 6 features even though they have been available since early 2014. It doesn't have to

Getting Started

New blog - migrated from WordPress to Ghost

My new blog is now live running on Ghost. :-) It's really simple and fits my needs better than WordPress which is why I decided to make the move. There's still some things missing like migrating the images from WordPress to ghost but that

demandware

Part 2: Developing with Demandware

If you haven’t read part 1 you might want to do that first – What is Demandware. In this part I would like to show what the setup for Demandware is like, talk about the underlying technologies and how you develop an application using

angular

AngularJS ng-cloak flicker issues

I recently stumbled into an issue with AngularJS using the ng-cloak directive. Part of the page I was trying to hide would still flicker even though I used ng-cloak. I found this a bit silly as the documentation states the following: [...] Use this directive

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Part 1: What is Demandware?

This post is intended for developers new to Demandware and people interested in it from a developers perspective. It will be a little series of posts exploring the platform. Before I started working with Demandware I had never heard of it and didn’t

computer

Getting started with Raspberry Pi 2

A while ago, with the hype of Raspberry Pi 2 I suddenly decided I needed to buy one. Not knowing what I was really going to do with it I just told myself I’d figure it out once I got it. Impulsive purchase?

expression

C# 6.0 - Expression-bodied function members

Expression bodied function members provide syntactic convenience and are simply members with no body. Aligned with the vision of this version, the feature brings simplification to the language so simple functions and alike such as this public string Greet(string name) { return Console.WriteLine(

6.0

C# 6.0 - Dictionary initializer

With C# 6.0 we get dictionary initialization using indexers which is yet another subtle feature towards cleaner and more understandable code. The following is an example showing how you would usually initialize a dictionary. var dictionary = new Dictionary<string, FilterDelegate> { {"

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C# 6.0 - Static Using Statements

Once again C# 6.0 brings lots of small features which helps writing cleaner and more understandable code. Static using statements is another such feature, which allows to import static members directly into scope. So where is this relevant? An example of this could

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C# 6.0 - nameof expressions

Nameof expressions is yet another cool and awesome little feature which helps you to avoid magic strings in your code base. Here is a little example of what nameof expressions essentially try to solve: public void Greet(string name) { if (name == null) throw new

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C# 6.0 - Null conditional operator

The Null conditional operator is another cool little feature that C# 6.0 ships with. It eases null checking behavior by simplifying the amount of code to be written. Here is an example of the usual (old way) null checking behavior: if (dataList != null)

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C# 6.0 - String Interpolation

String Interpolation is another feature, that ships with C# 6.0 and comes in handy when formatting and working with strings. There are a many ways to work with strings but generally when it comes down to formatting them, it is usually String.Format.

6.0

C# 6.0 - Auto implemented property initializers

Recently there has been a lot of posts about some of the new features in C# 6.0 due to VS 2015 Preview etc. however some of these feature were mentioned early 2014 around April and May. In a little series I’ll make

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Chocolatey - A Machine Package Manager

What’s Chocolatey? Chocolatey is a super cool Package Manager that you can use to install applications and tools. As they describe it themselves on their website: Chocolatey NuGet is a Machine Package Manager, somewhat like apt-get, but built with Windows in mind. How

2013

Visual Studio 2013 Shortcuts and Tips

In this post I’ll briefly highlight some cool features in Visual Studio that I think not all developers are familiar with as well as some tips. Some of these features have been present in VS 2013 for a while and some in earlier

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How to view Intermediate Language for a .NET application

If you’re interested in what the common intermediate language (formerly known as MSIL but often just abbreviated to IL) looks like for your .NET application then here’s a quick how-to. On Windows 8 simply search for ‘Developer Command Prompt for VS‘. On

2012

How to rename a folder in Visual Studio 2012 and 2013

It is quite easy to rename a project, folder or file from within Visual Studio. However if you rename a folder for one of your projects outside of VS you might encounter some headache – such as not being able to load the given project

2013

Visual Studio 2013 Add Table menu option missing (localDB)

If you’re having problems with not being able to add tables in Visual Studio 2013 through the Server Explorer and you’re only presented with the options ‘Refresh’ and ‘Properties’ then it’s most likely because you haven’t got the SQL Server

Hello world!

using System; public class HelloWorld { public static void Main(string[] args) { Console.Write("Hello World!"); } }

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