I was adding some new functionalities to an existing ASP.NET MVC app that uses Telerik's Kendo UI for ASP.NET MVC and there was one behavior that was annoying me.  When the page was scrolled, the list part of any dropdownlist control was showing offset from the controls.  After a litt

I was experimenting a high CPU usage with Visual Studio 2017 after debugging sessions, something like 25-30% CPU while Visual Studio was idle.  Turns out that the solution is quite simple: Close VS Using File Explorer, locate the project's folder that gives you the high CPU issue Locate the hi

Here's a great video showcasing the new .NET Core 2.0 and Visual Studio 15.3 features and functionalities.  It's 82 minutes long and cover the following: .NET Core 2.0 & .NET Standard 2.0 Performance improvements  Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3 new features Serverless computing with

Sometimes a simple picture or graph is all you need to explain something.  This one nails it.   Source unknown but whoever you are, I'll buy you a beer!

If you've been presenting or recording presentations about Azure, you may have tried to hide keys, subscription IDs and other secrets from your audience.  It's not that easy, especially when these secrets move along the tiles in the Azure portal.  I finally found a couple of extensions&nbs

I was tasked to generate a million dummy customer records in CSV files to test the import process of a service that my client uses.  I wanted to add some randomness in the data and a quick search led me to Faker.Data, a simple C# library available on GitHub that generates all kind of fake data

Here's the deck we used for the Visual Studio 2017 Launch Event in Montreal. Visual Studio 2017 - Montreal Launch Event—Guy Barrette

Microsoft has published a giant poster listing the new features in Visual Studio 2017.  It's pretty cool and informative, I just wonder how many pages does it take to print this thing. Learn more and download the PDF version here.  Prefer a PNG? Here it is!

Another good news for UWP developers: Telerik announced that they open sourced their UWP suite of controls.

Right on the heels of the Windows Developers Day announcements, Microsoft released version 1.3 of the UWP Community Toolkit.  The toolkit is a series of open source controls and helpers for UWP developers.