As of Update 3, Visual Studio 2013 now has support for Application Insights built in, so I thought I’d have a play with it again. Right now, my primary focus is adding instrumentation to a Windows 8 Store app I’m working on. I’d tried to do it with the previous Application Insights release (which was in preview), but …

I found that a solution of mine was still referencing the Microsoft.Bcl.Build nuget project, and as I was using Visual Studio 2013, I figured it was no longer needed, so I removed it. After doing this, some of the projects refused to compile, reporting the error: This project references NuGet package(s) that are …

@Colly_Mc_K asked me on twitter (and in my poorly moderated comments feed – sorry, Colly!) if it was possible to use DynaCache with SimpleInjector. Although I’ve used SimpleInjector a bit before, I hadn’t actually tried it with DynaCache. It turns out that the sample code for Ninject translates fairly well - here’s a …

I was playing around with Visual Studio 2013 and Entity Framework 6 in an MVC 5 application recently, and was impressed with the level of support that is provided out of the box for oAuth. If you create a new ASP.NET MVC 5 site with the Individual User Accounts authentication option and follow all the instructions on …

When you construct a PersistedFullTextIndex with a primitive type, such as int, you just need to define it like this: 1var index = new PersistedFullTextIndex<int>(filePath); However if you try to do this with something more complicated, such as a class or even just a Guid, you’ll get an exception like this: …

I’ve had a couple of people ask for concrete examples of using DynaCache with frameworks other than Ninject. The first one that I’ve put together is for Unity. You’ll find the Unity example in the DynaCache documentation here.

I’ve spent a couple of hours on WinRTTriggers tonight and added a couple of features that have been requested recently, StoryboardCompletedTrigger and SetPropertyAction. StoryboardCompletedTrigger This trigger allows to to fire an action when a storyboard completes – you can use it like this: …

I’ve been working on another game for Windows Phone (7.5+) and the result is Aliens vs Finger! Aliens vs Finger is a (hopefully!) fun tap-‘em-up game where you have to squish the aliens and stop the meteors crossing the screen, all the while being careful to not hit the friendly spacemen. Although …

Azure Mobile Services is an pretty cool platform that I’ve only just started trying out. Microsoft provide quick jumpstart projects for Windows Store, Windows Phone 8 and iOS apps – but that’s it. If you’re like me and are stuck working on a “legacy” app such as the Windows Phone 7 game that I’ve been working on for a …