The year 2016 started off really interestingly. On January 1st, I got an email, telling me I have been awarded the Microsoft's MVP award [https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5001693?fullName=An%C5%BEe%20%20Vodovnik] - in the category of Microsoft Azure. This is a great honour, and…
ASP.NET 5, along with MVC 6, comes with a bunch [https://www.vodovnik.com/2015/09/20/localization-in-asp-net-5-mvc-6/] of new stuff. One of the more interesting ones is without a doubt the View Location Expanders. They basically make it easy to completely customize the location in which the View…
"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 [https://www.vodovnik.com/2015/09/08/complex-validation-in-mvc-and-web-apps-using-fluentvalidation/] and…
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 wondering why…
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 did. Am just…
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 [http://www.…