Start learning Powershell
If you are not yet familiar with the Powershell I can honestly recommend you to start learning it. This is a great tool with almost unlimited capabilities.
By Mirek on (tags: Powershell, categories: tools)TFS 2015 clone/import/export build definition between team projects
While exploring features of the new Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 I found that it is not possible to reuse a build definition created in one team project into another team project. Since this is a feature that I am going to use frequently, well, every time I start a new project, this is a must have functionality. In this post I will give you a complete solution I’ve came up with.
By Mirek on (tags: build definition, clone, tfs, VSO, categories: tools, infrastructure, code)Remote Powershell on Azure virtual machine over internet
In this post I will show you a step by step guide to enable Powershell remoting functionality on the virtual machine running Windows Server 2012R2. Then I will show you how to start a powershell session from a machine over the internet using a secure connection.
By Mirek on (tags: azure, Powershell, categories: azure, tools, security)Automated UI testing in ASP.NET MVC5 using Selenium WebDriver
I would like to show you how easy it is to use unit test in Visual Studio and Selenium Web Driver to make automated UI test. The Plan The plan is simple: host your app, investigate given page, make assertions. The first problem is how to host our application from inside a unit test? I want to host app using current code not from external source which is already delopyed – post …
By Piotr on (tags: asp.net 4, mvc 5, Unit test, categories: code)Pivot grid in WPF
Today I am going to show you how easy to achieve a pivot scrolling in wpf using scroll viewers and scroll bars.
By Mirek on (tags: pivot grid, WPF, categories: code)Localization in ASP.NET Core 1.0 and MVC 6
Previous ASP.NET localization approach was quite old. It was just based on resources and there was nothing wrong with this but lot of projects uses other sources of localized texts (for example database). In ASP.NET Core 1.0 it’s completely rewritten!
By Dawid on (tags: asp.net core 1.0, localization, mvc6, categories: code)Azure Active Directory B2B: How it works
B2B is based on invitation model which lets you enable access to your corporate applications from partner-managed identities. You can provide email along with the applications you want to share and send invitation to your partners, customers or anyone else who have account in Azure Active Directory. Azure AD sends them an email invite with a link. The partner user follows the link and is prompted to sign in using their Azure AD account or sign up for a new Azure AD account.
By Dawid on (tags: active directory, azure, b2b, categories: azure, infrastructure, code)Using Azure Active Directory application roles
In this post I’ll try to explain how we can build an MVC application that uses Azure Active Directory Application Roles for authorization. This kind of authorization is implemented using role based access control – RBAC. When using this kind of authorization we can grant permissions to roles, not to individual users or groups. The administrator can then assign roles to different users and groups. Thanks to that he can control who has access to what content and functionality.
By Dawid on (tags: active directory, asp.net 5, azure, role, categories: azure, code, security)Integration testing in ASP.NET MVC 6
In ASP.NET 5, Microsoft has produced a Nuget package called Microsoft.AspNet.TestHost which you can easily use to run your ASP.NET 5 in memory. We can use that feature of self hosted application to create integration tests.
By Dawid on (tags: asp.net 5, mvc 6, testing, categories: code)Full responsive vs m-site approach
Nowadays there are more mobile devices than desktops and every mobile device can have different resolution and aspect ratio. That means that we need to come up with optimal solution to that situation. There are basically two main approaches: a website that can dynamically adapted to every screen size - full responsive or additional dedicated mobile version of every page – mobil…
By Piotr on (tags: ASP.NET, responsive design, categories: code, web)