Nearly every day I get email from someone asking for help.  I wish I had time to answer every question.  I used to answer more of them but recently I was diagnosed with Adiposis Dolorosa. Adiposis dolorosa , or Dercum disease, is a rare condition that is characterized by multiple, painful fatty lipomas (benign, fatty tumors) that occur most often in middle aged, post-menopausal, obese women. Although it is 20 times more common in women, 16 percent of the reported cases are males and it...

In a previous blog post I mentioned how exited I was about WebSockets and the future with real time duplex communication over the Internet. Unfortunately the current support for WebSockets, both on the client and on the server, is still somewhat limited making this a thing of the future. Does that mean we can do this yet? Not quite.   SignalR to the resque Even if a pure Web Socket solution isn’t possible yet there are perfectly good alternatives. And the one I really like is SignalR as it allows...

There are a few development tools that I just can’t live without. ReSharper A few years ago I was sitting in Glenn Block’s office when I noticed some strange additions to Visual Studio.  When I asked him about it he said “That’s ReSharper” and I was hooked.  I had to have it. ReSharper helps me to write better code faster period.  This is my #1 must have tool. NCrunch This is my most recent addition to the list.  I’m a big believer in unit testing and understanding your code coverage...

Today I installed Service Bus Server Beta release and the overall install experience was fairly smooth until I reached the New-SBFarm step of the ‘Getting started’ tutorial. The cmdlet just seems to hang for few minutes and failed ultimately – I tried on another machine & got same results. After lot of head–scratching I narrowed [...] Blog Post by: zamd

I have just published a Nuget package which adds property promotion features to Service Bus WCF programing model. Once you added the package to your project you can use the PromotedProperty attribute to mark your properties as promoted. The package supports promotion from both complex & primitive arguments. In addition to PromotedPropertyAttribute you also need [...] Blog Post by: zamd