by Alex Shapovalov | Software Development
When developing software, there are usually two types of requirements: functional requirements, which are what your application is supposed to do, such as solving a business need or providing business functionality, and non-functional requirements, which may include...
by Alex Shapovalov | Software Development
On my current contract, I have to develop and support SSIS packages for multiple versions of SQL server and in order to work with multiple versions, I am running a virtual machine. The problem with virtual machines they are not connected to the active directory, and...
by Alex Shapovalov | Software Development
Windows Azure user management is a little bit complicated, and unfortunately, there is no way to add users to the existing database using the Microsoft Azure management portal. To add a new user to the existing database in windows azure you have to do the following:...
by Alex Shapovalov | Software Development
Local development for ASP.NET websites over HTTPS protocol is much easy with the IIS Express development certificate, which is pre-installed with IIS on Windows 8. But anyway when a web application runs the first time in any browser, a message similar to the...
by Alex Shapovalov | Software Development
I have used Micro ORM for one of my projects recently and want to share my experience with such micro ORM as Dapper or Peta Poco, as well as compare them with such ORM tools as EntityFramework or NHibernate. When talking about micro ORM it usually does not matter...
by Alex Shapovalov | Software Development
Window PowerShell provides a number of helpful CmdLets for managing windows services, such as New-ServiceGet-ServiceRestart-ServiceResume-ServiceSet-ServiceStart-ServiceStop-ServiceSuspend-Service And create a new Windows Service using PowerShell...