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Dotnet development

WPF localization

Posted on July 1, 2015 by erictummers

To repro a bug I’ve created a simple WPF application that displays two labels bound to the same DateTime object. The bottom one is converted to a string using a IValueConverter. Both should be formatted the same but aren’t. By … Continue reading →

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Powershell optimization

Posted on June 24, 2015 by erictummers

After rewriting my PowerShell test environment automation script with functions I optimized some parts to improve memory usage, automate IIS Webfarm configuration and batch starting/stopping all machines is a Azure Cloud Service. Download For installation of software the script downloads … Continue reading →

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Powershell Functions in my Azure setup script

Posted on June 22, 2015 by erictummers

In my Automate test environment with azure virtual machines post I’ve written about my Azure setup script. To improve readability and making the creation of a new machine easier I decided to rewrite some parts to functions. The customscript extension … Continue reading →

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Lessons learned while solving a software issue on a client’s laptop

Posted on June 17, 2015 by erictummers

“This laptop has the latest version of the software and it’s not working”. That is how it ended up on my desk. After two days of debugging, crashing and reading log files I solved the problem. I’m hired to get … Continue reading →

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First look at Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

Posted on June 15, 2015 by erictummers

Microsoft’s solution for dependency injection is called Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). Dennis presented about this on the Techdays 2015. Now it is time to look at this myself with a simple demo app. Demo app I’ve created a demo app … Continue reading →

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