.NET Lance Talbert in .NET Extending the Unity Editor with C# The next step in learning how to create games in C# using Unity is to add extensions to get custom functionality. Lance Talbert shows you... 18 April 2018 16 min read
Darko Martinović Programming SQL Server with SQL Server Management Objects Framework SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) is a great tool for managing SQL Server. Darko Martinovic demonstrates how to use SMO within a C# solution to... 09 April 2018 26 min read
.NET Edward Elliott in .NET Writing VS Code Extensions with TypeScript VS Code is a cross platform lightweight development environment from Microsoft. TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript. Ed Elliott shows you how to create a... 06 April 2018 21 min read
.NET Dino Esposito in .NET A First Look at Bootstrap 4: Navigation Bars Bootstrap is a popular open source tool for developing HTML and CSS. Version 4 has recently been released. Dino Esposito explains some of the differences... 29 March 2018 12 min read
Darko Martinović An Easier Way of Transposing Query Result in SQL Server T-SQL does not have an easy way to transpose a row and a column. Of course, there is the PIVOT statement, but it doesn’t quite... 13 March 2018 17 min read
JavaScript Jakub Kaczmarek in JavaScript Securing Angular-Based Chrome Extensions Using Azure AD and ASP.NET CORE Azure Active Directory is a service that provides an authorization layer for different kinds of web applications easily. It is possible to implement it with... 09 March 2018 15 min read
Database DevOps Phil Factor in Database DevOps Scripting the Description of Database Tables Using Extended Properties Stored procedures, for example, are very easy to document. The comment block at the beginning stays with the code and a CREATE or ALTER script... 03 March 2018 28 min read
.NET Dino Esposito in .NET Action Control in ASP.NET Core With the release of .NET Core, developers must learn what has changed over classic ASP.NET programming. In this article, Dino Esposito explains that the skills... 28 February 2018 11 min read
BI Robert Sheldon in BI SQL Server Machine Learning Services – Part 6: Merging Data Frames in Python In the final article in this series, Robert Sheldon demonstrates combining data sources with multiple formats into one Python data frame. … 28 February 2018 21 min read
.NET Camilo Reyes in .NET URL Matching in C# Comparing URLs in C# code is a common task and seems simple. Camilo Reyes shows us that there are many pitfalls to avoid since people... 12 February 2018 12 min read
Mircea Oprea JWT Authentication for Microservices in .NET As software development evolves to service-oriented architectures, the underlying frameworks and methods used must change as well. Mircea Oprea demonstrates how to create a service... 09 February 2018 13 min read
.NET Dino Esposito in .NET HTTP Response Headers in ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core has the flexibility to add HTTP response headers anywhere in the middleware pipeline. Dino Esposito explains what you need to know to handle... 12 January 2018 11 min read
.NET Dino Esposito in .NET ASP.NET Core Tag Helpers for Bootstrap The ASP.NET Core tag helpers improve on the HTML templated helpers in ASP.NET MVC 5. ASP.NET Core comes with some useful stock tag helpers for... 17 November 2017 13 min read
.NET Dino Esposito in .NET Abstracting System Time in ASP.NET Applications When designing web applications, it is a good idea to be cautious about the way you handle the time of day and calendar. It can... 19 September 2017 11 min read
Mircea Oprea Creating a C++/CLI Wrapper The C++/CLI is a dialect of C++ that is designed to work with the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI). It is a replacement for 'Managed C++'... 06 September 2017 13 min read
T-SQL Programming Darko Martinović in T-SQL Programming SQLCLR in Practice: Creating a Better Way of Sending Email from SQL Server SQLCLR is now considered a robust solution to the few niche requirements that can't be met by the built-in features of SQL Server. Amongst the... 17 July 2017 36 min read
Jon Smith Using Entity Framework With an Existing Database: Data Access Pre-existing SQL databases, particularly if complex, can often pose problems for software developers who are creating a new application. The data may be in a... 01 December 2014 18 min read
Robert Sheldon Questions about Primary and Foreign Keys You Were Too Shy to Ask It is strange that one can ask simple questions about extended events or Hekaton at professional events and conferences without feeling embarrassed, yet nobody likes... 06 October 2014 36 min read
Robert Sheldon Subqueries in SQL Server Subqueries and derived tables can add great versatility to SQL statements, cut down complexity, but can occasionally be a curse when their effect on performance... 26 May 2011 16 min read
Jacob Sebastian An Introduction to SQL Server FileStream Filestream allows us to store and manage unstructured datain SQL Server more easily. Initially, the accounts of FILESTREAM assumed prodigious powers of concentration and cognition,... 03 August 2009 19 min read
