After one of latest Visual Studio 2017 I noticed that tab length is incorrect in C# editor. I went through options and confirmed that tab size for C# was set to four spaces. But still for some reason editor used two as tab size. There have been some small changes how Visual Studio 2017 prioritizes settings and here is how to solve the mess.

It has been problematic to run ASP.NET Core applications on Windows 10 IoT Core as it is not officially supported scenario yet and many components we are used with are not built with Windows 10 ARM in mind. Still it easy to run web applications on Windows 10 IoT Core using ASP.NET Core 2. There are few tricks developers should know when building web applications for Windows 10 IoT Core. This blog post is short guide about ASP.NET Core 2 on Windows 10 IoT Core

Over time my home network has grown and years are changed also the habits of consuming media at home. When I bought Asus RT-N66U some years ago it was well performing home router. Now came the point when continuing the old way was not an option anymore as things were degraded a lot. Performance boost was needed and here is what I did to get my veteran router back on track.

C# 7.1 introduces asynchronous Main method for console applications. It helps us to get rid of some ugly code to await for asynchronous methods. If Main method of console applications is application flow controller that makes multiple calls to asynchronous methods then async Main leads us to much cleaner code. This blog post is my deep dive to async Main.

Microsoft Cognitive Services offers us computer vision services to describe images and to detect printed or handwritten text. Text recognition provides interesting scenarios like cloud based OCR or providing automated translations for texts on images. This blog post focuses on recognizing printed text using Azure Computer Vision API.

Windows 10 has something called Windows Subsystem for Linux and this something enables us to run Linux applications on Windows 10 using Linux without need for Hyper-V or other virtual machines. When building multi-platform applications like my open-source TemperatureStation solution then having Linux right there for testing comes very handy. This blog post shows how to get Linux running on Windows, how to install .NET Core and how to run web applications on Linux.

ASP.NET Core introduces Node services that allow applications to run Node scripts on server. We can send data from controller action to Node script and get back some output we can use in view. This blog post shows how to use Node services to render d3.js charts on server-side to PNG files.

Another day, another surprise on .NET Core. Tried to load a file with Windows-1252 encoding and got the following exception: NotSupportedException: No data is available for encoding 1252. For information on defining a custom encoding, see the documentation for the Encoding.RegisterProvider method. Here’s how to solve the problem.

When running ASP.NET Core on IIS one may get weird error Application '' with physical root ‘’ failed to start process with commandline '"dotnet" .\MyApp.dll', ErrorCode = '0x80004005 : 80008083. Here is one and most probable solution for this issue.

In multi-tenant applications where tenants share same data store cross-tenant operations must be avoided. There are many ways how bugs like this can happen. Be it hard to debug threading issue or some other complex situation, it is better when application components are ready for this kind of situations and better fail instead of going to glory end with illegal operations. This blog post introduces defensive database context that throws exception when data from other tenants is about to be updated.