#Windows10 – Mouse without borders, a #MustHave if you work with 2 or more computers
#Windows10 – Mouse without borders, a #MustHave if you work with 2 or more computers
— Read on elbruno.com/2019/10/30/windows10-mouse-without-borders-a-musthave-if-you-work-with-2-or-more-computers/
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Prairie.Code() 2019 – SQL Server DevOps
Great presentation on SQL Server DevOps!
Note: Slides do not tell the whole story of the talk, so take the stand alone slides with a grain of salt. Things may be taken out of context.
Prairie.Code() 2019 – Building Large, Yet Maintainable, ASP.NET Core Applications
Great post on building and maintaining ASP.NET / ASP.NET Core applications.
Note: Slides do not tell the whole story of the talk, so take the stand alone slides with a grain of salt. Things may be taken out of context.
Azure Icon Update is Coming
New Azure icons are coming. Read more about this at
Microsoft Learn is the new Microsoft Virtual Academy — Build Azure

Over the last few months I’ve seen a lot of comments about Microsoft Virtual Academy being retired, in addition to a fair amount of traffic going to an article I posted about Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) being retired January 31, 2019. It’s important to note that Microsoft hasn’t abandoned the learning community. They’ve actually been…
Microsoft Learn is the new Microsoft Virtual Academy — Build Azure
A Lap around the WinUI TeachingTip Control
XAML Brewer, by Diederik Krols
In this article we will run through a couple of scenarios using the UWP TeachingTip control. This relatively new control is an animated flyout that according to the documentation “draws the user’s attention on new or important updates and features, remind a user of nonessential options that would improve the experience, or teach a user how a task should be completed”.
The high quality of this official documentation made us decide to skip a high-level introduction and to immediately expose the TeachingTip control to some more challenging ‘enterprise-ish’ scenarios. Here are the things you can expect us to cover in this article:
- programmatically creating a TeachingTip,
- precision targeting a XAML control,
- state management,
- auto-hiding a TeachingTip on time-out and navigation, and
- building an inherited control.
We also added a sample that expresses our concerns on the light dismiss behavior, and identified an interesting use case for the TeachingTip as ‘Form…
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SQL: Think that varchar(10) means 10 characters ? If so, think again… – The Bit Bucket
SQL: Think that varchar(10) means 10 characters ? If so, think again… – The Bit Bucket
— Read on blog.greglow.com/2019/07/25/sql-think-that-varchar-characters-if-so-think-again/
What are the Benefits of Employing a Microsoft MVP? | Blog
What are the Benefits of Employing a Microsoft MVP?
— Read on www.nz365guy.com/what-are-the-benefits-of-employing-a-microsoft-mvp/
Introducing Plato.Core
Today we’re pleased to announce the availability of Plato.Core, a port of our popular Plato.NET library for .NET to the .NET Core framework.
Plato.Core supports the following features:
- Async/Await
- Object Mapper
- Memory Cache
- Configuration
- Messaging
- Security
- Serializers
- Support for ActiveMQ
- Support for RabbitMQ
- Support for Redis cache
To get started, search for Plato.NetCore on NuGet.org from within Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. Take a look and let us know what you think and please contribute!
Cheers,
The ReflectSoftware Team
NOTE: This post was reposted on https://blog.reflectsoftware.com .