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<p>I'm normally not a Raspberry Pi kind-of-guy, three weeks ago I knew basically nothing about them. I am however a <i>Microsoft guy</i>, loving Windows, Visual Studio and C#, so when a colleague ment…

<p>I have had a Nokia Lumia 920 for more than a year now and I have never tried using NFC. Until now that is. I don't remember why but all of the sudden I got extremely interested in NFC, so I downloa…

<p>I was recently working on a website that used client certificates to authenticate the users, and while testing the application I was surprised to find that the certificates stored on the smart card…

<p>I'm administering a local TFS that hosts several web application projects. The projects are being built on each check-in, and the goal has always been to deploy the applications to various environm…

<p>The other day I was updating an old application that was created in Visual Studio 2010 originally and later was upgraded to Visual Studio 2012. One of the changes I made was to add the &lt;httpRunt…

<p>During my time as developer I have created a few ASP.NET web applications. One common task that I often do is to add forms authentication functionality to these web applications. This means a lot o…

<p>When working with code-first development in entity framework you will most likely need to initialize the database at some point. Entity framework provides a set of database initializers that can be…

<p>So recently I started developing for Windows Phone, just to try it out. One of my first apps was a port of a WinForms application that I had done before. One of the issues I faced during the develo…

<p>The other day I was getting indications that one of my applications was behaving strangely. Without getting too techinical about it, it seemed like the application had lost data. Losing data is nev…

<p>Some time ago I was told to troubleshoot a problem in one application (ASP.NET 2.0). The problem seemed to occur randomly, and when it occurred the application would halt and begin generate the fol…

<p>Enabling SSL in TFS 2012 is basically the same as enabling SSL in IIS. TFS uses IIS to provide access to your team project collections, and you will therefor use the IIS manager to bind a certifica…

<p>In the last post I went through the steps to create a certificate and installing it in IIS. Installing a certificate in IIS opens up the possibility to use SSL between the client and the web server…

<p>I recently faced the task to submit an offline certificate request from IIS to a CA running on Windows Server 2008. Since there were some tricky bits in completing this task I decided to document t…

<p>I was troubleshooting a performance issue with a co-worker today when we discovered that a particular call to List&lt;int&gt;.Contains() was causing a huge performance hit. At that moment it struck…

<p>After thinking about it for some time I finally decided to turn on retail mode on my web server. Retail mode is a setting in machine.config that will disable a few debugging-related features in ASP…

<p>I was deploying an MVC application to an IIS 7.0 the other day but when I tried to access the application I got an HTTP 403.14 error. That was strange, since it worked on my development machine (ho…

<p>Hello and welcome to the first post ever in my blog. In this blog I plan to post bits and pieces related to software development. For far too long have I solved problems one day just to encounter t…