An enumeration is a declaration of named numerical constants. It is an often used concise solution for implementing discrete values and it keeps source code readable and type safe. Unfortunately, enumeration values cannot be categorized by default. Enumeration values cannot be categorized without affecting the composition of the enumeration or…

Source code from this blog can be found on GitHub. Windows Service applications are commonly used when an application needs to run continuously and does not require any user interaction. …

Source code from this blog can be found on GitHub. Topshelf provides several customization features. One of them is customizing the Windows Service information that is shown in Services. The Windows Service information can be set from the command line when installing, through host level configuration and using the project…

Introduction Azure Cosmos DB is a great product for handling huge amounts of unstructured data. It is a globally distributed and high performance database service that is often used for large-scale solutions. Data is stored as JSON document in Azure Cosmos DB. This makes the data portable and the data schema…

One of the requirements of a recent project I was working on, was maintaining history of database table data as part of an audit trail. My first thought about the technical solution was to use triggers, but after some research I learned about temporal tables. Temporal tables have been introduced…

When working with the Service Bus in Azure, the Service Bus Explorer is the must-have tool because it has lots of functionality that is not available in the Azure Portal. In this blog I will describe step by step how to install the Service Bus Explorer. I am using Chocolatey…

IIS Express is a great tool for developing and testing ASP.NET applications. It is simple, lightweight, has lots of web server features and it is very easy to get it up-and-running. When you create a new ASP.NET application, IIS Express generates a random port number that is used for listening…

Logic Apps is an Azure component that allows you to implement powerful, serverless, and scalable automated workflows. It allows data exchange with other Azure components and also on-premise data. You can develop Logic Apps using an easy to use visual designer. …

Client-side .NET SDK connections to an Azure Cosmos DB can be optimized in order to reduce latency and get the best performance. Before going into details, it is important to understand the infrastructure of Azure Cosmos DB. Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed and high performance database service. In…