When Office 2016 was released the other day I was both surprised and excited. Office 2013 has been around a while and I knew Office 2016 was in development but there was no pre-release warning, it just appeared. In the continual need to always be using the latest stuff I uninstalled Office 2013 and installed… Continue reading Office 2016 Is Here!! Uninstalled…
A while back I posted a series of articles on how to use T4 and a custom VS extension to simplify some common code like application settings, WCF clients and environmental transforms. With the release of Visual Studio 2015 I had to update my own extension and templates so I wanted to posted a follow… Continue reading T4 Templates Update for Visual Studio 2015
UPDATE: NuGet Package Manager 3.1 has been released to Visual Studio Gallery. It resolves the issue mentioned here. For those of you using the Visual Studio 2015 RC/RTM release you should be aware of a bug in the version of NuGet that ships with it. The bug manifests itself when building or debugging a project.… Continue reading Visual Studio 2015 RC NuGet Package Bug
In SSIS (SQL Server Integration Service) you often need to talk with web resources like WCF services. To do that you will generally define the connection using Connection Manager and HTTP. This sets up SSIS to communicate with the remote resource. To use the connection you normally use a script task to get the connection… Continue reading Using Parallel HttpClientConnection objects in SSIS
Quick, what is the syntax for ArgumentException? How about ArgumentOutOfRangeException? Did you know the arguments are swapped between the two? In one case the parameter name comes first while the other has the message first. Getting this wrong is so easy that it happens a lot. Fluent APIs have become very popular for a variety… Continue reading Fluent Argument Validation