I just returned from a week of absorbing hardcore IT knowledge, meeting industry leaders and enjoying the nice Spanish weather. Where? Microsoft TechEd 2014 of course!

We're organizing a MasterChef spin off called [email protected], a 24-hour hackaton / coding competition for students!

Strong naming has caused a religious war in the Open Source .NET-community. If you are a writing a third-party library or you simply are a .NET-enthusiast, then you will definitely want to read this extensive thread on NuGet. You will learn a lot about strong naming, its implications and the pickle the Open Source community is currently in. Be warned, the thread is long, contains heated debates and has been running for over three years.

KnockoutJS is a kick-ass JavaScript framework for creating rich and interactive web sites. One caveat of KnockoutJS is that, after you have applied your viewmodel to your page, it may be hard to figure out what data went where. Fortunately, there’s a quick trick to debugging live KnockoutJS views, right from your Chrome browser window!

DbEntityValidationException is the exception thrown by Entity Framework when entity validation fails. While this exception is extremely valuable, the exception message omits the most important bit of information: The actual validation errors. In this blog, I present a quick and easy way to unwrap and rethrow these exceptions with a more meaningful message.