This article is about looking at a specific C# feature and see how the functionality has been changed as each new C# version is released. It’s nice to look at “What’s New” articles but sometimes I find myself unable to…

One of the benefits of having the source code is that often the comments in the code can provide good insight into the inner workings that the normal documentation does not. It can also show code that will output more…

I use Visual Studio Team Service (VSTS) as part of my DevOps process for end to end Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD). As the product grows so does the number of built in variables and whilst the documentation…

This is a series of blogs detailing my introduction to using OData v4 with C# and ASP.NET WebApi. The source code for the project can be found here. Conventional Data Model Up to now our two code examples…

There are times when you create an assembly executable that has dependencies on other assemblies. You may want pass this assembly around without having the need for it to be installed however; if you have to copy DLL’s around with…

Principle This principle is an extension of the Open Close Principle and was first introduced by Barbara Liskov during a conference keynote speech. We need to ensure that new derived classes are extending the base classes without changing…

In this series of blogs I want to show how we access the Azure REST API directly using Postman in order to understand how applications can get authenticated and authorized automatically without having the user enter a username and password. …

This is a series of blogs detailing my introduction to using OData v4 with C# and ASP.NET WebApi. The source code for the project can be found here. Creating the Project The Project is called Part08 Create…

In this blog we will continue testing our Scorer class by adding Spares and Strikes. Adding Spares Looking at the rules for spares. If we knock down 10 pins with 2 bowls, we add 10 plus the value…

The idea of this post is to document my journey to building PostgreSQL on a Red Hat Linux server in Microsoft Azure. The post assumes the reader has experience using Microsoft Azure so those steps will not be detailed. A…