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About erictummers

Working in a DevOps team is the best thing that happened to me. I like challenges and sharing the solutions with others. On my blog I’ll mostly post about my work, but expect an occasional home project, productivity tip and tooling review.

Week roundup

Posted on March 20, 2015 by erictummers

Last week recap and links: Connected cows? How Machine Learning and Azure are helping dairy farms. Running ASP.NET 5 applications in Linux Containers with Docker My interest for Docker was triggered by our runtime on Mono. This would be perfect … Continue reading →

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Call custom .NET code from powershell

Posted on March 18, 2015 by erictummers

Consider the following code in HelloWorld.API.dll. Make the API available with the Add-Type cmdlet. This makes all the types in a .NET assembly available in the current session. Now the static method can be called by using the :: (two … Continue reading →

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Week roundup

Posted on March 13, 2015 by erictummers

Last week recap and links: Architecture blueprints MSDN videos about the Microsoft Cloud Three Ways To Test Around Entity Framework that uses InMemoryDbSet, Moq and RimDev.Automation.Sql Getting started with Azure Search on Azure Friday Image courtesy of kanate / FreeDigitalPhotos.net … Continue reading →

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Reduce wait time with tasks

Posted on March 11, 2015 by erictummers

In our project we group multiple machines and request information from each one. Sometimes this takes very long. All machines are contacted in sequence. When one machine is offline the request will timeout in 10 seconds (default WCF behavior) This … Continue reading →

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