BASTA Spring 2015 - C# and .NET Performancetuning
25 February 2015 - C#, Visual Studio
Project completed, application shipped - but customer isn't happy with the performance. What now? At the German BASTA 2015 conference I will do two sessions about performance optimization in .NET applications. In this blog article I share the slides and links to my samples.

BASTA Spring 2015 - Docker
24 February 2015 - Azure
Docker is an important topic for Microsoft especially with the Azure cloud computing platform. As ASP.NET vNext supports Linux, developers can start exploring Docker Containers for running their applications in Linux Azure VMs now. At German BASTA 2015 conference I did an intro-session about Docker on Microsoft Azure.

BASTA Spring 2015 - C# Workshop
19 February 2015 - C#, Visual Studio
Spring time is BASTA time - -) For many years I have had the possibility to open the German BASTA conference with a full-day C# workshop on Monday. This year I will focus on C# 6 news, Roslyn, and related NuGet "gold" nuggets. In this blog article I share my slides and code samples with you.

ASP.NET, Docker, and Linux in Azure
05 February 2015 - Azure, Visual Studio
In the last months I looked at Docker from a software development perspective. The results can be read in the current issue of the German Windows Developer magazine and in a Channel9 video.
ADFS and ADAL Lab
02 February 2015 - Azure, Visual Studio
In this blog article I summarize important links you will need when building a lab environment for demonstrating ADAL, ADFS & Co.
OOP 2015 - ALM in the Cloud with Visual Studio Online and Azure
27 January 2015 - Azure, Project Management, Visual Studio
At OOP 2015 conference, I will do a session about ALM in the cloud. As always I try to show mostly practical samples instead of boring slides. In this blog post I summarize the talk and reference important resources that I will mention.
Updated samples for Windows Installer XML (WiX)
14 January 2015 - C#, Visual Studio
In my GitHub Samples repository I share all my newer samples and slide decks for trainings and workshops. In the last days I added new samples on Windows Installer XML (WiX) and updated Readme so the samples are easier to understand.
.NET Infoday - What's New in C# 6?
04 December 2014 - C#, Visual Studio
At IT-Visions' .NET InfoDay 2015 in Graz, my friend Roman Schacherl and I will do a session about new features in C# 6. In this blog article I summarize the content of the talk and make the sample available for download.
AngularJS Provider in TypeScript
24 October 2014 - TypeScript
AngularJS samples written in TypeScript are not that common on the internet. I get frequently asked how to write an AngularJS provider in TypeScript. Here is a "Hello World" sample.
Shipping large MSI installers via Azure Blob Storage
08 October 2014 - Azure, Visual Studio
Recently I did a WiX (Windows Installer XML) and MSI training at a customer in Germany. One of the questions I got asked was how to deliver large MSI installers efficiently to customers via web. The goal was to minimize download time. In this blog article I describe a possible approach.