While evaluating Visual Studio Test Services to build, test and deploy our projects for the company I work for, ran into an issue with running unit tests created with IntelliTests. Simply, the test project would not build due to the PEX engine DLL's not being installed on the images VSTS uses. I contacted support and [...]
dotNetDave Rocks India!
The dotNetDave Rock The World Tour is finally headed to India! I've been wanting to rock India for many years. I'll be speaking at the C# Corner Conference in Delhi on 7 - 9 April. Have you been to India before? I'd like to hear about what to bring/ not to bring, do/ not do [...]
.NET Framework => Core: LINQ AsParallel
In the .NET Framework, if we wanted to process a loop on multiple cores, we simply added AsParallell to the end of the collection as seen below: var files = new List(); foreach (var directory in directories.AsParallel()) { if (directory.Exists) { var foundFiles = directory.EnumerateFiles(searchPattern, searchOption); lock (files) { [...]
dotNetDave Rocks SQL Saturday #611
I hope you will join me for SQL Saturday in Orange County, California on April 1, 2017. I will be doing the session below. Rock Your Technical Interview 2:45 pm in Humanities 305 Have you ever not gotten a job because you weren’t prepared for the interview? Would you like a big raise? Do you need [...]
.NET Framework => Core: Getting The App Data Folder
This is the first in my series of blog posts that will describe major changes to coding if you are trying to convert from the .NET Framework to .NET Core. First up, getting the folder the app should use to save data. In the .NET Framework it was really easy by doing the following: public [...]
Fix Permission Issue Creating Diagrams in SQL Server
Today, I was trying to create a diagram in SQL Server to setup table relationships. I kept getting an error. I gave my user owner rights on the database but that still did not work, until I found this: EXEC dbo.sp_changedbowner @loginame = N'sa', @map = false This fixed it!
Rock Your Microsoft .NET Coding Standards (2017)
I've released a brand new video of my conference session titled "Rock Your Microsoft .NET Coding Standards" on demand. This video has lots of new tips, tricks and guidance. To see this session, live and in person click here to check out my conference schedule. Rock Your Microsoft .NET Coding Standards from David McCarter on [...]
