CodeGarden 2015: recap of day 1
Here I am again, for the third time at Umbraco CodeGarden. For those who do not know what it is, it's the yearly Umbraco developer conference, this year celebrating its 10th anniversary.Before going…
My new free eBook is out: OWIN Succinctly by Syncfusion
I’m happy to announce that my latest book, OWIN Succinctly, has just been released by Syncfusion, within their “succinctly” series of eBooks. I’ve written this book together with my friend and…
Using Entity Framework within an Owin-hosted Web API with Unity
After quite a lot of time of writing applications without direct interaction with Databases, lately I’ve been working on a pretty simple ASP.NET Web API project that needs to save data on a database.…
How to unset a proxy for a specific git repository or remote
In this post I’ll show something that I just discovered and solved a problem I had once we introduced a in-house git repository: how to have many git repositories using proxies but have one that…
Using web api client in synchronous methods and some good async/await resources
Lately I’ve been trying to include a call to a REST service using the WebAPI client to a library already used from inside both an ASP.NET page and a WCF service. The problem with mixing sync and…
How to roll log files at the beginning of the day using Enterprise Library logging block
It took me a while to find out the (very simple) solution to my problem, so I thought it would have been a good idea to create a post explaining it. The problem I’m logging from my application using…
Don’t miss Connect(); a virtual conference about Visual Studio vNext
I just came back from the Microsoft MVP summit, where they announced (to MVPs) lots of interesting news about the future of web development with .NET: many were already well known like the new ASP.NET…
How to get integrated debugging in Visual Studio with OwinHost in Owin-based Katana web applications
In this blog post I want to share with you an hidden feature of Visual Studio 2013 that enables an integrated debugging experience with OwinHost and other custom hosts. Options when building…
Announcing the 2nd Web European Conference, next Spring, in Italy
We did it in October 2012, and we are doing it again: we are organizing the 2nd Web European Conference for Spring 2015, somewhere in Italy. The conference will be about Modern Web Development, no…
My review of Umbraco Codegarden 2014– One word: amazing!
Over last week I've been in Copenhagen to attend the Umbraco CodeGarden: I’ve been at this conference 4 years ago, in 2010, when I had 2 talks at the MVC pre-conference, but this time I was just a…