The art of simplicity

A colleague forwarded me the following error message: The problem occured when he tried to create a branch, but only on this specific project we had issues. Time to log on the TFS server and check the Event Log. There I found the following error message: DESCRIPTION: SQL Server Assertion: File: , line=951 Failed Assertion = 'IS_OFF (BUF_MINLOGGED, m_buf->bstat) || pageModifyType != PageModifyType_Contents || GetPagePtr ()->IsTextPage ()'. This error may be timing-related. If the error persists after rerunning the statement, use DBCC CHECKDB to check the database for structural integrity, or restart the server to ensure in-memory data structures are not corrupted. This error message brought me to the following Connect ticket: https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/3005568/sql-server-2016-merge-statement-fails-when-running-db-in-simple-recovery-model I first tried to install all possible updates but no luck, the issue remained. Then I saw t...

The new Angular(can’t call it Angular 2 anymore) ecosystem is still evolving. Control libraries start to appear. Here are some of the libraries I had a look at: (Don’t ask me which one I prefer, as with all control libraries they have their pros and cons you’ll have to learn to live with…) Angular Material Material Design components for Angular apps https://material.angular.io/ Remark: The Angular Material library for Angular >=2 is still rather limited. Don’t confuse it with the Angular 1 variant at https://material.angularjs.org/latest/ . . NG-Lightning Native Angular components & directives for Lightning Design System http://ng-lightning.github.io/ng-lightning/#/ Created by the Salesforce’s guys on top of Angular and Salesforce's Lightning Design System . TERADATA Covalent Covalent( https://teradata.github.io/covalent/#/ ) is a UI Platform that combines proven design language with a comprehensive web framework, built on Angular & Angular-M...

In my current job I’m active as a manager where I have a team of +20 people. My main focus is to guide these people through their career and help them grow into professional IT consultants. Sometimes I get completely overwhelmed by the questions, problems,little and bigger things, … that people keep asking me. My manager(the manager’s manager ) noticed it and shared the following article from Harvard Business Review with me; Management time: Who’s got the monkey? . Although from 1974(!) still as relevant today… Don’t forget the follow up article Making time for Gorillas (part of the same link ). Thanks Jörgen for the tip! And now I have to go as it is time to get the monkeys of my back…

By default Visual Studio has one NuGet source registered out of the box, the official NuGet gallery at https://www.nuget.org/ . However I had to use a package that wasn’t hosted on the official NuGet gallery but instead could be found on MyGet.org( https://www.myget.org/ ). Problem was that I didn’t want to ask all developers to register an extra Package Source in Visual Studio. So what’s the alternative? The trick is to add a nuget.config file to your solution. From the documentation: The behavior of every NuGet command, whether issued from the command line, the Package Manager UI, or the Package Manager Console, is driven by the accumulated settings from any number of NuGet.Config files: + Project-specific NuGet.Config files located in any folder from the solution folder up to the drive root. These allow control over settings as they apply to a project or a group of projects. A solution-specific NuGet.Config file located within a .nuget folder in the ...

Today I lost some time investing an issue with Angular 2. I was creating an Angular pipe using Angular CLI. The code that was generated for me was the following: Unfortunately I wrongfully assumed that the args keyword was refering to the arguments object we have in the JavaScript language. Turns out that this was a wrong assumption. Since Angular beta.16 the parameters are not passed as array to the transform() method anymore but instead as individual parameters: {{ myData | translate:'arg1':'arg2' }} export class TranslatePipe implements PipeTransform {      transform(value:any, arg1:any, arg2:any):any {         ... } I would suggest to the Angular CLI team to change the name of the argument, because the args name causes confusion. Or is it just me?

In case your REST api exposes an Open API specification document, but you didn’t integrate Swagger UI to allow developers to browse and test your API, they can still use the Swagger-UI capabilities by directly browsing to http://petstore.swagger.io and put the url in the box at the top of the page. Alternatively, they can add the url of the service to the end with ?url= such as http://petstore.swagger.io?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/master/examples/v2.0/json/api-with-examples.json .

After deploying our ASP.NET Core application using Web Deploy, we noticed a problem with our Swagger integration through SwashBuckle . Normally SwashBuckle can integrate documentation in your Swagger UI by extracting and reading the XML comments added to your code. Problem was that when this XML isn’t copied Swashbuckle throws an exception making our whole API unavailable. Some research showed that the problem appeared after migrating from the project.json format back to csproj, after which the <DocumentationFile> was no longer automatically copied to the output folder during the build or publish process. The solution I used was to add the following snippet to your csproj: