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Home automation has been around over few decades. With the advancement of technology and internet, it has become prevalent and accessible. However, it’s no secret that it has also become fragmented, less secure and less private. We are living through the times where corporates control and own your data including the videos your security cameras […]
MVVM’s command binding has probably been the same for more than a decade. Hence you should take what you read with a grain of salt. The Problem Patterns – WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern | Microsoft Docs has a detailed account of the pattern. It also explains the code it suggests to a […]
Most developers are familiar with defining configuration sections in appsettings.json or a json file, and then read it through IConfiguration. However, Azure Functions uses environment variables. Though there are ways you can use a json file in azure functions, it will hamper the flexibility of configuring azure functions. Environment variables are stored as a key-value […]
If you are writing a secure code, there will be more than one instance where you need certificates to achieve encryption and decryption. Always depend on Azure Key Vault to read certificates and keys. However, there are many instances where you need the certificates to be installed in the node itself. This article is to […]
In a multi-tenant data insert scenario, GUID is a great data type for primary key. Since it is unique globally, you will not need to rely on any range or custom logic. However, if you extend these columns as index, you will end up with frequent index fragmentation and hence bad performance. In this post, […]
If you are familiar with MVVM, then you are already familiar with relay commands. We use relay commands to map a method with the ICommand raised from a control. Below is the typical code snippet you may have seen a lot of time. The class below is pretty simple; it accepts a method and allows […]
When you are creating a runbook with multiple activities, often you will encounter the need of referring an activity output in another activity. Thankfully, all the activities in the runbook can refer another activity in the parameter pane. However, when you have a piece of powershell script which needs to use the same, you don’t […]
There is an inherent and documented bug with SQL for a very long time where the database will not yield any output when you have got an “Instead Of” trigger on a view and you update the view. The bug is currently updated as “Won’t fix” as the fix will alter the core bits of […]
RichTextBlockOverflow is one of my favorite control. As we all know, it allows you to render the overflown text from a RichTextBlock. Virtually you can render the overflow text to any number of level. Below is how a the overflow happens when you got one RichTextBlock and two RichTextBlockOverflow to render the overflown text. However, […]
Often I have come across situations where the enterprise customers want to restrict data availability to their employees / IT not only from the application but also at the database level. Government / Public sectors have a common requirement that they don’t want everybody at their IT team to be able to query everybody’s data. […]
