Crap I always forget... A simple parallel task operation might look like this: using System.Threading.Tasks; void MainThreadMethod () { Task.Factory.StartNew (() => wc.DownloadString ("http://...")).ContinueWith ( t => label.Text = t.Result, TaskScheduler.FromCurrentSynchronizationContext(
The App: Identity Set Up I have officially lost my mind. I've never run into so many roadblocks in my life on a single concept. Everything seems to be about halfway there, nothing works completely out of the
core Some Bits On Reflection There are some hard to find solutions for reflection issues that work on both .NET 4.61 and .Net Core 1.1 I'm just putting there here so I can find them again.
The App: Token Flow I thought I'd write this all down before I forget it. Really hard to remember it after stepping away for a second. I'm using the Microsoft Azure Mobile App platform and I want
app Setting Up with Zapier This shouldn't have been that hard, but it was. I mostly blame pronouns. I'm documenting this here just so I'll remember how to redo it all again later. As usual. To be clear,
movies Stuff Worth Watching When I run into friends these days they often ask what I've been watching. Not that they think my opinion means all that much, just that I might have caught something they missed.
The App: Security Compromises After all this work, it appears that we're at a bit of an impasse with regard to MS products and identity. This is beyond frustrating. At the heart of this is Azure B2C
app; development The App: Logging In/Out User Experience It seems that every supplier of identity libraries has their own idea about controlling the login flow. Of course, none of them seem to match ours. The problem is, they automatically want to
app; development The App: Security Selection and Considerations This has been far more difficult than it ever should have been. None of the pieces of the puzzle ever seemed to fit. But here's what happened and what we're doing: Constraints: The
The APP: More Pesky Security Setbacks So for more than a month I've been working on figuring out how to finally get my security model in place. And failed. It wasn't a complete waste, I'm quite sure I headed
The App: Great Ways to Debug Azure Mobile Apps - Part2 In Part 1 of this I showed how to connect up Azure Mobile Apps to ngrok.io and make it work. But if you want real performance data on your server side, you
The App: Great Ways to Debug Azure Mobile Apps - Part 1 The problem with developing cloud based services, especially those involving authentication, is that at least some of the logic lives in the cloud. Attaching a debugger to that process in the cloud works,
Suggestions for a Xamarin Client SDK Login Adrian, Thanks so much for listening to these suggestions. I think some of them might be a little bit of an edge case (multiple users on a single device) but others seem to
Working with the IoT and Windows 10 So I decided a long time ago to use the Raspberry Pi 2 for a little home experiment regarding humidity in my crawlspaces and basement. It's already costing me thousands, so putting $50
Cable and Internet Our internet situation is a challenge. When we bought the house, there was a Uverse router in the basement. I figured that was sub optimal, but it would do. Trying to activate the
The App: Security. Jesus. What A Mess. You can't build an app these days without building security in from the start. Whatever choice you make, it ends up baked into everything. So I decided to take a one-and-done approach to
The App: Really Cool Test/Debugging Setup Trying to host a local site on your local machine while communicating with other hosts can be a huge pain. But it's really important for debugging and seeing the traffic and what's going
app; development The App: Shifting Gears - The Database So I thought I would just use Azure Table Storage for everything, given the fact that it's about $0.12 per gigabyte per month. Pretty awesome. But Storage Tables only allow one index.
app; development The App: Shifting Gears - The Gateway So, just when I thought I had this figured out... I had selected Authorize.NET as our gateway to allow people to charge credit cards. They have a nice .NET library to connect
app; development The App: Modelling Heresy In developer blogs over the last year or so, I’ve seen a drift away from a single data model that describes the solution and that every aspect of the app uses. Used
app; development The App: Data Storage Choices for Scale Pro tip: If you are cutting and pasting using Edge and Ghost, be sure to copy and paste instead. Just lost an entire post trying to split one post into two. sigh I
The App: Client Tool Selection I was out for bit on a sailing vacation with my sister and her family. Really awesome bit of time off. Just before I left, I'd built some projects (very small ones) with
app; development The App: The Authentication Stuggle Bus This is the end of day two of trying to get this working. Basically, Microsoft has included this set of Mobile libraries to allow access to Azure Mobile Apps in order to make
app; development The App: Authentication - Wow This Is Hard Authentication is the process of making sure you are who you say you are. The App is a consumer facing app and that will certainly require authentication by a variety of third party
app The App - Choosing the Primary Development Tools So I've checked out everything I can find and I narrowed it down to two products/environments. NativeScript This is a Telerik language. They are a good company and this looks like a