Responsive Pivot Headers in Universal Windows Platform apps
For a Universal Windows App I wanted to implement a Pivot. Reading the guidelines for tabs and pivots by Microsoft I got inspired by the examples given. However, no code samples are supplied so there...
View ArticleHyper-V VM’s missing in Windows 10 (Insiders Build, Slow Ring)
My PC just got upgraded to the latest Windows 10 Insiders build (slow ring, build 10565) and suddenly a couple of VMs were missing from the Hyper-V Manager.I first suspected the security settings on...
View ArticleJSON on a diet… how to shrink your DTO’s – Part 1: Default Value Handling
These days JSON is used a lot. For storing data, for storing settings, for describing other JSON files, and often for transporting information between server and client using DTOs (Data Transfer...
View ArticleHighlight your Selected Pivot Header in a Universal Windows Platform app
Not long ago I wrote a blog post about Responsive Pivot Headers in Universal Windows Platform apps. Paul responded to this post asking how to change the background of the selected item, just like the...
View ArticleJSON on a diet… how to shrink your DTO’s – Part 2: Skip empty collections
This is the second part in a series of posts about reducing the amount of data transferred between ASP.NET Web API or Azure Mobile App Service and the (mobile) client.In this post we will squeeze a...
View ArticleMy road to MCSD: Universal Windows Platform
Recently I got certified by Microsoft as Solutions Developer for the Windows Universal Platform by taking two exams that are currently in beta. Because the exams are in beta there is not much guidance...
View ArticleAttending the Microsoft Build 2016 conference
This week I’ll be attending the Microsoft Build 2016 conference in San Francisco.Lots of news to be expected for developers covering the many technologies Microsoft is putting on the market.
View ArticleIntroducing Sandboxable: use your favorite (Azure) NuGet packages in a...
I would like to introduce to you Winvision’s first open source project: Sandboxable.Sandboxable enables your project to utilize functionality provided by other (Microsoft) libraries that normally are...
View ArticleSending a message to an Azure queue from a sandboxed CRM plug-in
A while back I've introduced Sandboxable. It's a means to use NuGet packages that normally are not available for code that runs with Partial Trust.In this post, we will walk through the steps to create...
View ArticleStoring entities on Azure blob storage from a sandboxed CRM plug-in
This post will be about a new sample of using “Sandboxable”.We will walk through the steps to create a Microsoft Dynamics CRM plug-in that on deletion of any record, stores the deleted data as a file...
View ArticleSpeaking at dotNed Saturday 2017 – Serious Request, Azure as scalable platform
I’m invited to speak at dotNed Saturday, the Dutch .NET community event.My session, is called “Serious Request, Azure als schaalbaar platform” and I’ll be talking about my experiences using Azure to...
View ArticledotNed Saturday 2017: sharing my slides
Last month I gave my session, in Dutch, titled Serious Request, Azure als schaalbaar platform during the dotNed Saturday event.I’m sharing my slides so you can start building awesome, secure, scalable,...
View ArticlePowerShell script: ConvertFrom-SiteMap
The other day I needed to get the URLs for all pages in my blog for some PowerShell scripting I wanted to do. Like most websites, this blog has a sitemap and I wanted to use that as a source.As I...
View ArticleCreate Virtual Applications and Directories in your Azure Web App using ARM...
When I start on a project that uses Azure resources, one of the first things I do is build the infrastructure and automate the deployment using VSTS or TFS.In this post I‘ll explain how you can extend...
View ArticleAdd secrets to your Azure Key Vault using ARM templates
Azure Key Vault is a great resource to store your secrets like passwords, connection strings, certificates, etc. and access them programmatically. A great feature is to add or update your secrets...
View Article“Missing” Azure APIs when adding permissions to an Azure AD app
When I recently was configuring an Azure AD application, I couldn’t assign the delegated permissions for an Azure SQL Database. It did cost me a full day to find out the Azure Portal user interface has...
View ArticleAdding Application Logging (Blob) to an Azure Web App Service using PowerShell
The other day I wanted to configure Application Logging on Blob Storage for a Web App Service and found out this needs a SAS URL. And this is something an ARM template can’t provide for you.In this...
View ArticleBing for business – Part 1: Branding
At the Ignite conference keynote Microsoft announced Bing for business. Winvision is one of the partners participating in the current preview.With the public announcement of Bing for business, I’m now...
View ArticleBing for business – Part 2: People search
This will be my second post about Bing for business: “the new intelligent search experience for Office 365 and Microsoft 365, which uses AI and the Microsoft Graph to deliver more relevant search...
View ArticleTechDays 2017: sharing my slides
Today I presented a session, in Dutch, titled 'Gebruik Azure Key Vault in je applicaties en zorg dat niemand achter je geheimen komt' during the TechDays 2017 event. The presentation is about using...
View Article‘docker run’ throws “exec user process” errors
When recently creating a Linux Docker image using Docker for Windows, I ran into a couple of vague errors. Searching online for the error messages, weren’t any solutions. But luckily some suggestions...
View ArticleWordCamp Nijmegen 2018: sharing my slides
This weekend I was speaking at WordCamp Nijmegen about the possibilities of hosting a WordPress site using Microsoft Azure. I’m sharing my Dutch slides here, and soon I hope to add the recording for...
View ArticleARM Template User-defined Functions: Build a Storage Account Connection String
When working with ARM Templates, chances are you have set a value that was a Storage Account Connection String. For example as the value of an appsetting, or as a secret in Azure Key Vault, which I did...
View ArticleAdvanced Lockdown Lecture: OAM & Dapr
These times should not prevent us from sharing knowledge and keep learning about great new technologies. For this, Info Support organized the lockdown lectures.I was honored to take part in this series...
View ArticleLink an Azure Web App to a Container Registry using ARM templates
Using Docker images for your Azure web app is not brand-new functionality. But if you want to deploy your container-based web app using ARM templates and use your own Azure container registry, you...
View ArticleUsing URI’s in YAML with YamlDotNet
Recently, I was using a YAML file for storing some data for a pet project. To work with this YAML in a .NET application, I use the excellent YamlDotNet library by Antoine Aubry.One of my properties was...
View ArticleUnable to find an entry point named ‘OrtGetApiBase’ in DLL ‘onnxruntime’ with...
When trying to have an application work with an ONNX model I downloaded from the Microsoft Custom Vision portal, I got the following exception:TypeInitializationException: EntryPointNotFoundException:...
View ArticleClassify a Bitmap with your downloaded Custom Vision ONNX model
The Custom Vision service is one of the Azure Cognitive Services that is provided by Microsoft. With custom vision, you can train a model with your own image data. The portal provides a Prediction API...
View ArticleTrick Bamboo’s MSTest parser when we skip running our tests
I use the MSTest Parser task in a Bamboo build plan to add a report of tests that were executed and their outcome. But sometimes you want to skip running tests. For example, you are focusing on other...
View ArticleRemove docker images from a Container Registry using PowerShell
When using a Docker Registry, like hub.docker.com, you will not often want to delete a published version of an image. You cannot know if someone, somewhere in the world is using that specific...
View ArticleWhen your ML.NET training data does not fit: ‘The asynchronous operation has...
When you have created a machine learning model, you will retrain that model when new data is available. But when I recently added a couple of images to the training set of my own ML.net model, I was...
View ArticleYAML properties as Scalar or Sequence? Or both?!
YAML is a data serialization standard that is intended to be human friendly. For example, it reduces the use of delimiters quite drastically compared to other formats like JSON.Some YAML file authors...
View ArticleGet all prediction scores from your ML.NET model
When predicting with an ML.NET model you trained yourself, you might be interested in just more than the highest scoring label. But how do you get the other labels and their corresponding scores?In...
View ArticleGet all prediction scores from your ONNX model with ML.NET
Recently I wrote an article about getting all prediction scores from your ML.NET model. So, when we want to do this for an ONNX model we have loaded with ML.NET, that should work the same, right?Not...
View ArticleSpeaking about machine learning and Xbox achievements
A couple of my recent articles were about machine learning and image classification in C#. These posts were the results of a pet project on which I was working. I will be speaking about this project at...
View ArticleThree episodes about Machine Learning and Xbox achievements at dotnetFlix
I had the honor to be a guest at the dotnetFlix channel, hosted by Sander Molenkamp and Edwin van Wijk. I share more on the techniques, frameworks and libraries I have used and I finish with a...
View ArticleManage Azure AD applications from an Azure DevOps Pipeline
A lot of people prefer to manage their infrastructure as code. Some infrastructures might require an App Registration in an Azure AD. So, why would we not apply the IaC practice here as well?An Azure...
View ArticleAdd Azure Active Directory authentication to an App Service from an Azure...
Azure App Services make it quite easy for you to add one or more authentication providers to your application. But how do you add Azure AD as a provider using Infrastructure as Code?In this article I...
View ArticleUsing the OpenCV VideoCapture class with the name of a Camera
To capture images in my applications, I use the VideoCapture class of the EmguCV library, an OpenCV wrapper for .NET.To choose a specific camera, you need to supply an index value. But getting this...
View ArticleCreate an Azure SQL Database Failover Group with the Azure CLI
With an Azure SQL Database, Microsoft is already providing high availability with an SLA of at least 99.99%. But if you want to prevent to be affected by a large regional event or want to meet...
View ArticlePixcel: Convert an image into Excel pixel art
Last week I received an invitation for a social work meeting about "Pixel art in spreadsheets".I thought: "How hard can it be".Well, it is about 25 lines of C# 9.0 hard! 😁
View ArticleUsing Private Link with a Failover Group for Azure SQL Database
In a previous article I described how to configure an Azure SQL database failover group for high availability across multiple regions.But what if you want to limit network traffic to a database in this...
View ArticleMy Advent of Code 2021
I recently joined the Advent of Code 2021. During the first 25 days of December, the challenges made me (re)discover many possibilities with C#, some that are long available but maybe not that well...
View ArticleQuick PowerPoint tip: Stack emoticons
Learn how to stack emoticons in PowerPoint to create engaging and visually appealing slide titles. Bring your presentations to life with this quick and easy tip!
View ArticleQuick PowerPoint tip: Switch between emoji and text rendering
When adding emoticons to your PowerPoint slides, sometimes the rendering might not be as expected.For example, PowerPoint renders the emoticon only in a textual, monochrome variant on the slide.So, how...
View Article2022, My year as a speaker
In the past few years, I have presented multiple sessions all around the world, although mostly virtual. Presenting for a live crowd was something I only did inside The Netherlands before.With...
View ArticleWhy I Switched from WordPress to Astro: Faster, Cheaper, and Greener
For years, WordPress was my go-to platform for blogging, but it was time for a change—one that aligns better with my values, both environmentally and financially.In this post, I share the reasons...
View ArticleMigrating from WordPress to Astro: How I Moved My Blog Content
After 15 years of blogging with WordPress, I decided to take the plunge and migrate my blog to Astro. This post outlines how I moved my content, step by step, and the tools I used to make the transition.
View ArticleReplacing WordPress Plugins with Astro: Acronyms, Meta Tags & Tag Clouds
Moving from WordPress to Astro meant rethinking how I implemented various features that were previously handled by plugins. In this post, I explain how I replaced key WordPress plugin functionalities...
View ArticleReplacing WordPress Plugins with Astro: Code Highlighting, Recent Posts &...
As I continue migrating from WordPress to Astro, I am rebuilding key plugin features without third-party dependencies.In this post, I will show how I replaced syntax highlighting, recent post widgets,...
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