Every year or two, I find myself re-evaluating virtualization options for macOS. For the past two years or so, I was using Parallels and as a developer who is mostly using Visual Studio, it worked quite well. To clarify, I use my VMs almost exclusively for software development. All the other tasks, like emails, browsing … Continue reading VMware Fusion vs Parallels
Yesterday I had an interesting task. I needed to parse a collection of XML files in C# and wondered if there's an easy way to just access the data without all the XPath/XML fuzz. After some research I found a couple of approaches and I mixed and matched them to a pretty simple one using … Continue reading Quickly parsing XML in C#
My blog here at code4ward isn't quite active lately. My local community engagements at expertslive.at are consuming most of my time. But I had the opportunity to speak at the Experts Live EU event in Berlin and thought, this would be a good opportunity to share my slides and code from my talk on my code4ward … Continue reading PowerShell Interop
Here are the slides of my DevOps Patterns and Anti-Patterns talk at Experts Live 2017. Experts Live Europe - DevOps Patterns and Antipatterns
Visual Studio (2015 and upcoming 2017) is a "DPI aware" application. Even our own WinForms based product Royal TS is a "DPI aware" application. But if you are a WinForms developer and use Visual Studio on a high DPI system, you will be surprised how Visual Studio messes up all your WinForms in the designer. … Continue reading Visual Studio WinForms Designer on HighDPI
