Hello there. I’ve been spending a lot of time of late trying to develop a solution to a very obscure problem scenario. The entire problem itself is outside the scope of this article – and to be honest, probably wouldn’t be terribly relevant to many – however, I felt there […]
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Introduction We have a requirement at the moment to modify AD FS 3.0 (which is a role in Windows Server 2012 R2) to allow users to authenticate without having to specify the domain name. This is for two reasons – the current external system doesn’t have a requirement to prefix […]
Introduction Recently I was asked to look into solutions for moving some WordPress sites in-house for a client. At first this looked fairly straightforward, until I realised that they wanted the ability to spin up new self contained VM sites with little effort. Naturally, I pursued the logical step of […]
This morning I struggled to get Microsoft Lync 2013 to work. The symptoms consisted of the application running normally – I could authenticate, and the contact list would load – but after a few minutes the application would hang. Naturally, I Googled the symptoms and found a match for the […]
Do you prefer offline help and documentation? Sometimes I prefer offline help, particularly when I’m travelling or when a stable Internet connection is not available. It is particularly useful if you work in an environment where external access is difficult, for example in a secure datacentre. I find offline documentation […]
Introduction Hello and apologies for the long delay between articles, I am now returning to the Entity framework. Following on from the previous article (Entity Validation) I’m back to review the latest edition of the generic data access class. In the time between my original series of articles concerning disconnected […]
Introduction As you’ll no doubt recall from my earlier 2012 article, I have a NAS in my home office. It is a Thecus N5200XXX 5-bay Network Attached Storage device, and it sits on my home gigabit network. The Thecus features an OS which accommodates pluggable “modules”, one of which is […]
Some exciting news to share – for those interested in pre-releases, the next iteration of the Entity Framework – v6.1.0 has been released as a Beta just recently (Feb 11th, 2014). For those who are curious about the new features, check out this link or read the summary I’ve copied […]
Introduction In Part 1, we had a brief look at OWIN/OAuth concepts, and then prepared a clean ASP.NET web forms project for integration with NuGet packages essential to supporting a lightweight integration for OAuth handling. In Part 2 we established the information required to authenticate users against the Live Connect […]
Introduction Where we left off in Part 1, we’d established the prerequisites to prepare either a new or existing web forms project for the implementation of a lightweight OWIN/OAuth provider. This article, Part 2, will focus on how to prepare your development environment and also how to configure for Windows […]
Introduction Disclaimer: this article assumes the reader is already familiar with OWIN and OAuth standards. It is published in three parts. Late last year I wanted to implement Open Web Interface for .Net (OWIN) OAuth functionality for an administrative subdomain. As it happened, I wanted to specifically integrate OWIN/OAuth authentication/authorization […]
So late last year I was having trouble trying to figure out why a web site I’d been writing wasn’t working once published to Windows Azure. I can’t remember which library it was (JQuery.UI perhaps), but once published I was getting a lot of broken JS calls (“can’t load library”, […]
If you’ve spent any amount of time in the IT industry – and particularly in software development – you’ve probably been asked to forecast the effort associated with some kind of work, outcome or deliverable. Software development is tricky as it involves some degree of guess work – requirements can […]
Introduction Last week I gave an internal presentation to my fellow consultants at CGI on the principals of data modelling/data architecture, modelling within Visual Studio 2013 and a history of the (ADO.NET) Entity Framework. I’ve attached the slide deck to this article, and also in my presentations page. Data Modelling […]
Introduction Hi all. I’ve been working with the old ASP.NET Dynamic Data website templates, as I wanted a quick and easy to use web UI for managing the data at http://rs-photography.org. As the site is (obviously) image-centric, I wanted to make some modifications to the out-of-the-box Dynamic Data project to […]