"Your application is broken", they say. You ask what doesn't work, and they say: "We get an error". Fantastic. What sort of error? "Well, it's on a blue screen". Aha... In recent posts, I've covered some approaches on doing complex validation and monitoring the…
Anyone who has ever deployed their web application to production has already ran into the problem of how to monitor the health of that application. Is it online? Is it running? How fast is it performing? Are there any errors I need to be aware of? Which version is deployed?…
When we build (web) applications, we generally think a lot about the availability and reliability of those applications. That is one of the primary reasons why the "cloud" has been so great. Recently, I was tasked to find the best way to make a Cloud Service (if you're…
So, you run your app, and you get an exception. Something with EF, or your SQL statements, but mostly, you can see something is wrong with the database (again). You shout across the room: "Did anybody touch the database?" and you hear the dreaded answer: "Yeah, I…
ASP.NET 5 is a pretty revolutionary version - it's a complete rewrite, and an open source effort. They say that the reason for the ground-up redesign is the fact that the world has changed, and it has. We now have micro-services, on-premise servers that do not have to be…
Recently, at a project, we had to decide which technology to use. So far, for most of the projects I've been a part of, that run on Azure, we've gone with Cloud Services. Obviously, each project had their own separate reasons. For example, when we rebuilt MojeDelo.com at Studio…
Most projects require some sort of form input. And additionally, those form inputs need to be validated. For the validation, ASP.NET developers have a lot of options, but the default one is pretty good. That is the DataAnnotations. Those give you the option of specifying a lot of the…
Rok and I will be giving a talk about development of Web Applications using ASP.NET 5 (vNext) and MVC 6. Come and talk to us, 29.9.2015, in Šempeter pri Gorici. The demos are now available [here](https://github.com/avodovnik/Cancel/).…