Service Fabric — Comprehensive Notes from the Docs

Service Fabric has intrigued me from the moment I heard its name. However, the videos on Channel 9 and the like always came up short, covering the same headline features and leaving me with so many (really important) questions.

Note to Self: Using WinDbg to See Memory Usage

How to list the memory being used in a .NET application, by type. This can be useful in finding memory usage problems (not always leaks in the strict sense). It’s really pretty awful going back to commands and seeing pages of shitty numbers without…

How to: Send Email from a Microsoft Server Application

If you have a server application, web site or even a job or task running on a Windows server, you may need to send out emails. For me, it was an ASP.NET MVC 2 application; I needed to send an email to people who stuck their address in…

Stop saying “Endpoints”

To design a hypermedia REST API that delights its users, drop the endpoint.

There doesn’t seem to be any other type of API being created today, they’re all RESTful. Except they’re usually far from it, very rarely are they hypertext driven.

WPF — How to Veto a Windows Shutdown

…(even though you shouldn’t really).

The .NET Framework offers an event and a boolean argument property which is supposed to let you cancel the shutdown, but it often gets ignored and anyway, it doesn’t let you…

Why you should keep a journal

Have you ever been chatting and the other person swears you said something else, perhaps just one word was…

Dragging a WPF Window Around

This short article shows how to drag a WPF application window around your desktop when you have removed the stock Microsoft Windows chrome.

Applications using WPF and having a particularly stylistic look and feel often don’t sit well with the standard…

Software Ate the World: Neural Databases Will Eat Software

Adding a UserAgent to WCF Clients

A quick post to show how to add a UserAgent to a WCF call so that it can be inspected on the server side, perhaps to see which versions of clients are calling your service.

Websites and RESTful APIs are nothing but a builder pattern.

When you think about it, a stateless web workflow is simply guiding the consumer through forming an HTTP request.

If the task at hand is to add a book to our Amazon shopping cart, then no mutation to…