A few months ago, John Papa released a Visual Studio template called Hot Towel SPA, which Scott Hanselman kindly pointed out to me. SPA, as all the hip kids will tell you, stands for Single Page Application. That is, the kind of application that you start by visiting a web page, and you stay on …
In the previous article, we created a very simple starter web application and published it to Windows Azure. In this post, we’ll look at how to diagnose problems with that application. Since we’re deploying our application to Azure , we don’t have access to the Windows event log, or to log files that we might …
In this series, I’ll be discussing the process of building a simple, but complete, .Net 4.5 web application, and how to host and manage it in Windows Azure. We won’t be skipping anything in this series – this will be a real application that will be live on the web, so it will have to …
Every now and then, developers run into a situation where they need an in-memory object to participate in a transaction, and do all the things that transactional things do. One example of a situation that calls for transactional objects is caching. Suppose you’re in a transaction, inserting, updating, deleting things in a database. After making …
F# is a lovely language. I’m really glad it exists, and I love working with it. However, there is some room for improvement! I’ve gathered a list of all the things that I think are “missing” from F# today. A few of these I’ve found on UserVoice since I started compiling this list, and I’ll …
Yesterday I started experimenting with Haskell on Azure by putting up a Snap server. It doesn’t do much, it’s just the default starter application you get when you do “snap init,” but it’s up and running on Azure. Here’s how it works. Start with the latest Haskell Platform. Then install the Snap packages with cabal. …
Snap is a web framework for Haskell. Here are some notes on what I had to do in order to make it work on Windows. Caveat emptor, your mileage may vary. Hopefully this is of use to someone. 1. Install the Haskell Platform. You want version 2012.2.0.0 or later. 2. Install Git. You’ll need this …
When you use a “type constraint” in F#, the kind of constraint that specifies that the type has to extend from some other type, it’s possible to confuse the compiler (or more accurately: confuse yourself) into allowing some code that is guaranteed to fail at runtime. Here’s how it can happen. If you have a …
I heard a piece on the radio the other day about robots. One reporter told the story of how he’d driven across the United States almost without speaking to another human being the whole time. Food via self-checkout at the grocery store, hotels via robots check-in systems, etc. This was all very amusing at first. …
Here’s a quick PowerShell script you can use to update all your projects to a new version of .Net. Lots faster than opening the properties window for each project in Visual Studio and then reloading. function set-frameworkversion($version) { #scan current directory and below for project files #Add project types as desired $projects = dir …
