My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Is Null Or White Space

January 23, 2019
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So I did not know about IsNullOrWhiteSpace! Did you? I have of course been using IsNullOrEmpty for years which does ...

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A Program Manager interview at Microsoft

January 07, 2019
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Preparing for an interview is stressful and really difficult, on the other hand, I have also also found it to be ...

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Snapshot Debugger in Visual Studio Enterprise

December 27, 2018
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I have been getting really familiar with the Snapshot Debugger in Visual Studio recently and I have to say it is one of ...

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Creating Web Themes with Razor Pages

November 23, 2018
2 min read

One of my main ambitions for DasBlog Core was to create a flexible templating solution using Razor, this would allow a ...

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Microsoft Interface Definition Language 3

October 15, 2018
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I wrote about Windows RT some years ago without really thinking about the underlying type system design in a multi ...

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Why is the CPU usage so high and why do requests appear stuck?

October 04, 2018
2 min read

I was reviewing a hang dump for really important service with WinDbg recently, externally it was obvious that our ...

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Hosting your ASP.NET Core app

September 14, 2018
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So I wanted to document a couple of interesting points that had not occurred to me about hosting ASP.NET Core ...

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Should we use SecureString in ASP.NET for handling passwords?

August 28, 2018
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I got asked an interesting question about that would potentially apply to lots of products and thought it would be an ...

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Taking a Hang Dump or Crash Dump with ProcDump

August 09, 2018
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Most of us are unprepared for catastrophic failure in our application, that is, the kind of failure that is so ...

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