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Recently I was in a situation where I had to quickly inject loads of data into a SQL database. The basic setup of the application:
Recently I was in a situation where I had to quickly inject loads of data into a SQL database. The basic setup of the application:
Most samples one sees about using settings in .NET Core is about setting up an ASP.NET Core application. Very handy but sometimes I simply want to make use o...
Due to the Christmas season and companies know that people already bought a lot of stuff for their loved ones they sometimes lower prices. Manning also does ...
A couple of weeks ago I was going through my preparations and demos about the Microsoft Bot Framework to talk at SharePoint Saturday in Lisbon. As I didn’t u...
I noticed that Microsoft hands out a free ebook about AI and chatbots. It’s an easy read of about 50 pages.
When I started my professional career in the magical .NET world on July 1st 2002, I joined the ASP.NET forums as a member. In the beginning lurking for infor...
Due to the Christmas season and companies know that people already bought a lot of stuff for their loved ones they sometimes lower prices. Manning also does ...
Today I was presenting in Poland. More specifically in Warsaw at the Microsoft building for Azure Day Poland. It was a well organized event with a great atmo...
On Saturday November 25th 2017 me and my buddies from azug organized our annual CloudBrew event at the Lamot venue in pictoresque Mechelen city. The weather ...
Even though the documentation of Microsoft bot builder version 4 is really good I noticed I couldn’t find a decent explanation on how to replace the default ...
I got reawarded as an MVP for my continued volunteering work in the Azure space. Today was a day that all MVP’s in the world got to know if they were renewed...
Today I was presenting in Poland. More specifically in Warsaw at the Microsoft building for Azure Day Poland. It was a well organized event with a great atmo...
Normally I was only going to help out as a proctor during a workshop at Tech Summit. However on Tuesday evening I got a call from Microsoft corp in Redmond i...
Today I took the plane to Frankfurt, Germany to talk at Basta spring 2018 about Serverless on Azure.
Cloud computing has been around for quite some years now and is gaining more and more traction. More and more enterprises are also jumping on the bandwagon a...
If you would like to keep up date with Microsoft Azure and can spare some hours watching videos this might be something for you:
Normally I was only going to help out as a proctor during a workshop at Tech Summit. However on Tuesday evening I got a call from Microsoft corp in Redmond i...
Today I was presenting in Poland. More specifically in Warsaw at the Microsoft building for Azure Day Poland. It was a well organized event with a great atmo...
Yesterday I went talking about my experiences with chatbots I gained during the last years working at clients and in a second part of the talk how to create ...
Since around 2006 I’ve been using dasBlog as my main engine to keep my posts up and running. Since then a lot has changed in the world and I noticed that it ...
Due to the Christmas season and companies know that people already bought a lot of stuff for their loved ones they sometimes lower prices. Manning also does ...
Today I was presenting in Poland. More specifically in Warsaw at the Microsoft building for Azure Day Poland. It was a well organized event with a great atmo...
Even though the documentation of Microsoft bot builder version 4 is really good I noticed I couldn’t find a decent explanation on how to replace the default ...
Recently I was in a discussion about (Azure) DevOps, bugs and their severity. Besides being an interesting discussion we came up with the following list:
The C# team brings out new features in small releases like C# 7.1, 7.2 or 7.3 for example. Now you might notice that when you create a new project that not a...
Besides my usual day to day work including Azure, C#, ASP.NET Core, (chat)bots, Cognitive Services, … I’m currently becoming more and more interested in Data...
Today I was presenting in Poland. More specifically in Warsaw at the Microsoft building for Azure Day Poland. It was a well organized event with a great atmo...
On Saturday November 25th 2017 me and my buddies from azug organized our annual CloudBrew event at the Lamot venue in pictoresque Mechelen city. The weather ...
Yesterday I went to Romania for the first time ever in my life. Reason: I went speaking at the CODECAMP conference Bucharest edition (apparently the first on...
Today I was presenting in Poland. More specifically in Warsaw at the Microsoft building for Azure Day Poland. It was a well organized event with a great atmo...
Yesterday I had the pleasure to speak at Azure Saturday Cologne, Germany about Visual Studio Code. The room was filled with interested people and I went off ...
When I started my professional career in the magical .NET world on July 1st 2002, I joined the ASP.NET forums as a member. In the beginning lurking for infor...
Yesterday I went talking about my experiences with chatbots I gained during the last years working at clients and in a second part of the talk how to create ...
On Saturday November 25th 2017 me and my buddies from azug organized our annual CloudBrew event at the Lamot venue in pictoresque Mechelen city. The weather ...
Besides my usual day to day work including Azure, C#, ASP.NET Core, (chat)bots, Cognitive Services, … I’m currently becoming more and more interested in Data...
Besides my usual day to day work including Azure, C#, ASP.NET Core, (chat)bots, Cognitive Services, … I’m currently becoming more and more interested in Data...
Last week I took a day out of my holiday to help out a colleague. I basically already left the client but didn’t want to leave my follow up in the cold.
This morning I gave an online presentation at aMS Delhi about Power Virtual Agents - what’s new.
Recently I was in a discussion about (Azure) DevOps, bugs and their severity. Besides being an interesting discussion we came up with the following list:
Likely due to some upgrade on my laptop but lately I’ve been seeing way more screens while Alt+Tab ing on Windows. Not annoying but still a load of screens t...
Today I got a new laptop at my current client and unlike former PC’s it now comes with Windows 10 installed. Note that this is a large enterprise hence they’...
Recently I was in a situation where I had to quickly inject loads of data into a SQL database. The basic setup of the application:
Recently I was involved in improving the performance and stability of a new, important, application at a client. The usage of Kendo MVC Grid was a great addi...
I’m curently busy at a large project in the insurance sector. The original architecture implemented the onion architecture and took from the database a lot o...
Due to the Christmas season and companies know that people already bought a lot of stuff for their loved ones they sometimes lower prices. Manning also does ...
Due to the Christmas season and companies know that people already bought a lot of stuff for their loved ones they sometimes lower prices. Manning also does ...
I started a new job at a new client recently and of course I had to install a new laptop provided by the client.
Recently I presented at Iglooconf in Finland. Besides a very well organized conference and 100 attendees we also had around 500 online spectators who followe...
When I started my professional career in the magical .NET world on July 1st 2002, I joined the ASP.NET forums as a member. In the beginning lurking for infor...
Normally I was only going to help out as a proctor during a workshop at Tech Summit. However on Tuesday evening I got a call from Microsoft corp in Redmond i...
Today I took the plane to Frankfurt, Germany to talk at Basta spring 2018 about Serverless on Azure.
Since around 2006 I’ve been using dasBlog as my main engine to keep my posts up and running. Since then a lot has changed in the world and I noticed that it ...
Yesterday I had the pleasure to speak at Azure Saturday Cologne, Germany about Visual Studio Code. The room was filled with interested people and I went off ...
Normally I was only going to help out as a proctor during a workshop at Tech Summit. However on Tuesday evening I got a call from Microsoft corp in Redmond i...
Today I took the plane to Frankfurt, Germany to talk at Basta spring 2018 about Serverless on Azure.
Last Saturday was not only beautiful weather in Belgium, actually it was really great weather, but it was also Global Azure Bootcamp. Me and Tom Kerkhove ran...
A couple of weeks ago I was going through my preparations and demos about the Microsoft Bot Framework to talk at SharePoint Saturday in Lisbon. As I didn’t u...
Recently I presented at Iglooconf in Finland. Besides a very well organized conference and 100 attendees we also had around 500 online spectators who followe...
Recently I was involved in improving the performance and stability of a new, important, application at a client. The usage of Kendo MVC Grid was a great addi...
Last week I took a day out of my holiday to help out a colleague. I basically already left the client but didn’t want to leave my follow up in the cold.
On Saturday November 25th 2017 me and my buddies from azug organized our annual CloudBrew event at the Lamot venue in pictoresque Mechelen city. The weather ...
Last Thursday I was invited to come to the free local conference uNite at Ordina. It was an interesting agenda (see below) and because I used to work there f...
Cloud computing has been around for quite some years now and is gaining more and more traction. More and more enterprises are also jumping on the bandwagon a...
That time of year again… the MVP summit. Due to Covid-19 unfortunately again virtual but still great to look forward to. Seeing new technology being presente...
I got my blue ring which marks 15 years of being a Microsoft MVP. I’m quite proud of that particular achievement to be honest. I started out as an ASP.NET MV...
I got reawarded as an MVP for my continued volunteering work in the Azure space. Today was a day that all MVP’s in the world got to know if they were renewed...
I’m happy and honored to announce I got awarded as an Azure MVP for the coming year.
Last week I was visiting the USA for the annual MVP summit. I must say, one of the best editions I attended in year. First of all, it’s always great to see s...
Due to the Christmas season and companies know that people already bought a lot of stuff for their loved ones they sometimes lower prices. Manning also does ...
For years I’ve been using @KvdM for most things, Twitter, Github, … Due to some 2 factor authentication problems and as Github wasn’t really providing the ne...
On Saturday November 25th 2017 me and my buddies from azug organized our annual CloudBrew event at the Lamot venue in pictoresque Mechelen city. The weather ...
Yesterday I went talking about my experiences with chatbots I gained during the last years working at clients and in a second part of the talk how to create ...
I got my blue ring which marks 15 years of being a Microsoft MVP. I’m quite proud of that particular achievement to be honest. I started out as an ASP.NET MV...
I got reawarded as an MVP for my continued volunteering work in the Azure space. Today was a day that all MVP’s in the world got to know if they were renewed...
Recently I presented at Iglooconf in Finland. Besides a very well organized conference and 100 attendees we also had around 500 online spectators who followe...
In October I gave a presentation about Visual Studio Code during Microsoft Tech Days NL 2017. Well, that session got recorded and is now available on Youtube...
Last Thursday I was invited to come to the free local conference uNite at Ordina. It was an interesting agenda (see below) and because I used to work there f...
Recently I was involved in improving the performance and stability of a new, important, application at a client. The usage of Kendo MVC Grid was a great addi...
Visual Studio 2017 is a great tool and I spend quite a lot of my professional days in it. On its own it’s already a great editor but the power is in extensio...
I’m curently busy at a large project in the insurance sector. The original architecture implemented the onion architecture and took from the database a lot o...
For years I’ve been using @KvdM for most things, Twitter, Github, … Due to some 2 factor authentication problems and as Github wasn’t really providing the ne...
Cloud computing has been around for quite some years now and is gaining more and more traction. More and more enterprises are also jumping on the bandwagon a...
Today I was presenting in Poland. More specifically in Warsaw at the Microsoft building for Azure Day Poland. It was a well organized event with a great atmo...
A couple of weeks Visual Studio 2017 was released to the public. If you want to see the announcements and keynotes be sure to navigate to https://channel9.ms...
Yesterday I went talking about my experiences with chatbots I gained during the last years working at clients and in a second part of the talk how to create ...
Yesterday I went talking about my experiences with chatbots I gained during the last years working at clients and in a second part of the talk how to create ...
Yesterday I went to Romania for the first time ever in my life. Reason: I went speaking at the CODECAMP conference Bucharest edition (apparently the first on...
Today I was presenting in Poland. More specifically in Warsaw at the Microsoft building for Azure Day Poland. It was a well organized event with a great atmo...
Normally I was only going to help out as a proctor during a workshop at Tech Summit. However on Tuesday evening I got a call from Microsoft corp in Redmond i...
Today I took the plane to Frankfurt, Germany to talk at Basta spring 2018 about Serverless on Azure.
Recently I presented at Iglooconf in Finland. Besides a very well organized conference and 100 attendees we also had around 500 online spectators who followe...
In October I gave a presentation about Visual Studio Code during Microsoft Tech Days NL 2017. Well, that session got recorded and is now available on Youtube...
Recently I presented at Iglooconf in Finland. Besides a very well organized conference and 100 attendees we also had around 500 online spectators who followe...
Cloud computing has been around for quite some years now and is gaining more and more traction. More and more enterprises are also jumping on the bandwagon a...
In October I gave a presentation about Visual Studio Code during Microsoft Tech Days NL 2017. Well, that session got recorded and is now available on Youtube...
Yesterday I went to Romania for the first time ever in my life. Reason: I went speaking at the CODECAMP conference Bucharest edition (apparently the first on...
Normally I was only going to help out as a proctor during a workshop at Tech Summit. However on Tuesday evening I got a call from Microsoft corp in Redmond i...
Today I took the plane to Frankfurt, Germany to talk at Basta spring 2018 about Serverless on Azure.
Last Thursday I was invited to come to the free local conference uNite at Ordina. It was an interesting agenda (see below) and because I used to work there f...
Yesterday I went talking about my experiences with chatbots I gained during the last years working at clients and in a second part of the talk how to create ...
Recently I was in a situation where I had to quickly inject loads of data into a SQL database. The basic setup of the application:
A year ago I was at the MVP summit gathering with a bunch of international people which I can call friends and likeminded people. Not only a great trip to fi...
Normally I was only going to help out as a proctor during a workshop at Tech Summit. However on Tuesday evening I got a call from Microsoft corp in Redmond i...
Visual Studio 2017 is a great tool and I spend quite a lot of my professional days in it. On its own it’s already a great editor but the power is in extensio...
I’m curently busy at a large project in the insurance sector. The original architecture implemented the onion architecture and took from the database a lot o...
If you would like to keep up date with Microsoft Azure and can spare some hours watching videos this might be something for you:
For years I’ve been using @KvdM for most things, Twitter, Github, … Due to some 2 factor authentication problems and as Github wasn’t really providing the ne...
The C# team brings out new features in small releases like C# 7.1, 7.2 or 7.3 for example. Now you might notice that when you create a new project that not a...
I started a new job at a new client recently and of course I had to install a new laptop provided by the client.
Visual Studio 2017 is a great tool and I spend quite a lot of my professional days in it. On its own it’s already a great editor but the power is in extensio...
A couple of weeks Visual Studio 2017 was released to the public. If you want to see the announcements and keynotes be sure to navigate to https://channel9.ms...
A couple of weeks Visual Studio 2017 was released to the public. If you want to see the announcements and keynotes be sure to navigate to https://channel9.ms...
In October I gave a presentation about Visual Studio Code during Microsoft Tech Days NL 2017. Well, that session got recorded and is now available on Youtube...
Today I was presenting in Poland. More specifically in Warsaw at the Microsoft building for Azure Day Poland. It was a well organized event with a great atmo...
Likely due to some upgrade on my laptop but lately I’ve been seeing way more screens while Alt+Tab ing on Windows. Not annoying but still a load of screens t...
A couple of weeks ago I was going through my preparations and demos about the Microsoft Bot Framework to talk at SharePoint Saturday in Lisbon. As I didn’t u...
This morning I gave an online presentation at aMS Delhi about Power Virtual Agents - what’s new.
This morning I gave an online presentation at aMS Delhi about Power Virtual Agents - what’s new.
Yesterday evening I had the pleasure to speak at an in person event in Belgium for the Belgian poweraddicts community.
Today I had the pleasure to talk about Power Virtual Agents at aMS Berlin 2022. I got some very nice feedback at the end of the session from the audience who...
Likely due to some upgrade on my laptop but lately I’ve been seeing way more screens while Alt+Tab ing on Windows. Not annoying but still a load of screens t...
Today I had the pleasure to talk about Power Virtual Agents at aMS Berlin 2022. I got some very nice feedback at the end of the session from the audience who...
Today I was in Poland for the annual Azure Day Poland. A great gathering of (inter)national speakers about Microsoft Azure technology in the beautiful city o...
Today I was in Poland for the annual Azure Day Poland. A great gathering of (inter)national speakers about Microsoft Azure technology in the beautiful city o...
Today I had the opportunity to speak at Devdays Europe 2022. Normally it would’ve been in Vilnius, a city I only visited once before and liked a lot, but due...
Yesterday I had the pleasure to speak at Azure Saturday Cologne, Germany about Visual Studio Code. The room was filled with interested people and I went off ...
Today I had the pleasure to talk about Power Virtual Agents at aMS Berlin 2022. I got some very nice feedback at the end of the session from the audience who...
Even though the documentation of Microsoft bot builder version 4 is really good I noticed I couldn’t find a decent explanation on how to replace the default ...
I noticed that Microsoft hands out a free ebook about AI and chatbots. It’s an easy read of about 50 pages.
Today I had the pleasure to talk about Power Virtual Agents at aMS Berlin 2022. I got some very nice feedback at the end of the session from the audience who...
Today I had the pleasure to talk about Power Virtual Agents at aMS Berlin 2022. I got some very nice feedback at the end of the session from the audience who...
I noticed that Microsoft hands out a free ebook about AI and chatbots. It’s an easy read of about 50 pages.
This morning I gave an online presentation at aMS Delhi about Power Virtual Agents - what’s new.
Yesterday evening I had the pleasure to speak at an in person event in Belgium for the Belgian poweraddicts community.
Today I had the pleasure to talk about Power Virtual Agents at aMS Berlin 2022. I got some very nice feedback at the end of the session from the audience who...
Yesterday I went to Romania for the first time ever in my life. Reason: I went speaking at the CODECAMP conference Bucharest edition (apparently the first on...
A couple of weeks ago I was playing around with NServicebus on localhost. The nice thing about it is that it’ll make use of files in different subfolders if ...
Today I had the pleasure to talk about Power Virtual Agents at aMS Berlin 2022. I got some very nice feedback at the end of the session from the audience who...
That time of year again… the MVP summit. Due to Covid-19 unfortunately again virtual but still great to look forward to. Seeing new technology being presente...
Today I had the opportunity to speak at Devdays Europe 2022. Normally it would’ve been in Vilnius, a city I only visited once before and liked a lot, but due...
A couple of weeks ago I was playing around with NServicebus on localhost. The nice thing about it is that it’ll make use of files in different subfolders if ...
Recently I was in a situation where I had to quickly inject loads of data into a SQL database. The basic setup of the application:
At the MVP summit currently and there’s a talented person which takes your picture and uses his iPad pro and pencil to make a nice looking drawing out of it....
Today I was setting up a new project but was making use of Entity Framework Core. Seems I found an interesting flag -Idempotent to generate SQL statements fr...
Last week I wrote about making use of the Current selection setting to quickly have the startup project set when you’re having the focus on that particular p...
Even though I stopped blogging for a while due to various reasons I tried to pick up the pace again since beginning of this year. The old blog was hosted on ...
Even though I stopped blogging for a while due to various reasons I tried to pick up the pace again since beginning of this year. The old blog was hosted on ...
Today I had the opportunity to speak at Devdays Europe 2022. Normally it would’ve been in Vilnius, a city I only visited once before and liked a lot, but due...
Today I had the opportunity to speak at Devdays Europe 2022. Normally it would’ve been in Vilnius, a city I only visited once before and liked a lot, but due...
Today I was setting up a new project but was making use of Entity Framework Core. Seems I found an interesting flag -Idempotent to generate SQL statements fr...
This morning I gave an online presentation at aMS Delhi about Power Virtual Agents - what’s new.
Yesterday evening I had the pleasure to speak at an in person event in Belgium for the Belgian poweraddicts community.
Today I had the pleasure to talk about Power Virtual Agents at aMS Berlin 2022. I got some very nice feedback at the end of the session from the audience who...
Today I had the opportunity to speak at Devdays Europe 2022. Normally it would’ve been in Vilnius, a city I only visited once before and liked a lot, but due...
That time of year again… the MVP summit. Due to Covid-19 unfortunately again virtual but still great to look forward to. Seeing new technology being presente...
I got my blue ring which marks 15 years of being a Microsoft MVP. I’m quite proud of that particular achievement to be honest. I started out as an ASP.NET MV...
Another year has gone and what a year it has been. Covid-19 still ruled the major headlines, people got vaccinated (or not) and all around the globe people t...
Today I was in Poland for the annual Azure Day Poland. A great gathering of (inter)national speakers about Microsoft Azure technology in the beautiful city o...
This morning I gave an online presentation at aMS Delhi about Power Virtual Agents - what’s new.
Yesterday evening I had the pleasure to speak at an in person event in Belgium for the Belgian poweraddicts community.
Today I had the pleasure to talk about Power Virtual Agents at aMS Berlin 2022. I got some very nice feedback at the end of the session from the audience who...
This morning I gave an online presentation at aMS Delhi about Power Virtual Agents - what’s new.
Yesterday evening I had the pleasure to speak at an in person event in Belgium for the Belgian poweraddicts community.
Today I had the pleasure to talk about Power Virtual Agents at aMS Berlin 2022. I got some very nice feedback at the end of the session from the audience who...
Today I had the opportunity to speak at Devdays Europe 2022. Normally it would’ve been in Vilnius, a city I only visited once before and liked a lot, but due...
Yesterday I had the pleasure to speak at Azure Saturday Cologne, Germany about Visual Studio Code. The room was filled with interested people and I went off ...
This morning I gave an online presentation at aMS Delhi about Power Virtual Agents - what’s new.
Yesterday evening I had the pleasure to speak at an in person event in Belgium for the Belgian poweraddicts community.
Today I had the pleasure to talk about Power Virtual Agents at aMS Berlin 2022. I got some very nice feedback at the end of the session from the audience who...
Today I had the opportunity to speak at Devdays Europe 2022. Normally it would’ve been in Vilnius, a city I only visited once before and liked a lot, but due...
Yesterday I had the pleasure to speak at Azure Saturday Cologne, Germany about Visual Studio Code. The room was filled with interested people and I went off ...
Even though I stopped blogging for a while due to various reasons I tried to pick up the pace again since beginning of this year. The old blog was hosted on ...
Today I was in Poland for the annual Azure Day Poland. A great gathering of (inter)national speakers about Microsoft Azure technology in the beautiful city o...
Today I was setting up a new project but was making use of Entity Framework Core. Seems I found an interesting flag -Idempotent to generate SQL statements fr...
Last week I wrote about making use of the Current selection setting to quickly have the startup project set when you’re having the focus on that particular p...
A couple of weeks ago I was playing around with NServicebus on localhost. The nice thing about it is that it’ll make use of files in different subfolders if ...
Last Thursday I was invited to come to the free local conference uNite at Ordina. It was an interesting agenda (see below) and because I used to work there f...
Last week I wrote about making use of the Current selection setting to quickly have the startup project set when you’re having the focus on that particular p...
A feature in Visual Studio which I noticed already being available in VS 2019 before, likely after an update, is the ability to set a project as startup in a...
Yesterday I had the pleasure to speak at Azure Saturday Cologne, Germany about Visual Studio Code. The room was filled with interested people and I went off ...