If you want to get a free copy of the Index, Table of Contents and of Chapter 1, have a look here. Click on the READ AN EXCERPT dropdown and then select the one you would like to review. Figure 1 illustrates how that looks like. Figure 1, how to get a free PDF copy […]
Read More →I am proud to announce the publication of my newest book titled, “Microsoft Certified Associate Data Engineer Study Guide” for the DP-203 exam. The example data used in this book consists of my brainwaves. You can download the data and the source code for all the examples in the book on GitHub here . ADLS, […]
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If you have not read or heard about Microsoft Copilot read more about it here. In summary it is a natural language generative AI application that can respond to questions using your proprietary/private data in sentences and paragraphs instead of links. It does much more than that, read the article if you want to find […]
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A few interesting scenarios I experienced that I wanted to document. Firstly, there is a lot of focus on Visual Studio Code, I’m still working on ramping up there and aligning with and contributing the momentum it is building. I see Visual Studio Code as the place where those who want to get into Open […]
Read More →I wrote this article some years ago, it’s great to look back at things to see how we have progressed. That’s a good reason to blog because it is a historical reference, at least from the way I experienced it. Azure DevOps was called VSTS way back then. Configure Visual Studio Team Services in Visual […]
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I would like to proudly announce the release and availability of my new Beginning C# and .NET 2021 Edition book, which was co-authored with Jon Reid. The book contains over 800 pages of material relating to the skills and knowledge required to become a great C# programmer. The book is designed around the premise that […]
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As you read here the default setting for AutoComplete is true. When you create a Service Bus triggered Azure Function you install an extension named Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.ServiceBus as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1, Service Bus Azure Function AutoComplete The NuGet package is here and the source code here. The point of this article is explain […]
Read More →What a title! Being an author of many books, articles and posts, I really think I could write a book about this and what is happening behind the scenes, so don’t think your going to get all the ins and outs from this post. It all comes down to what value you place in the […]
Read More →I am finding a particular liking to Python. I seem to be coding with it more and more. Especially when it comes to my Raspberry Pi cluster, the work on my 6502 project and my hacking labs. I thought that I should write a post about some details around coding an Event Hub triggered Azure […]
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This release is a big deal. Basically, all the different versions of .NET like shown in the following bullet list are merged into this one version called .NET 5. .NET Framework .NET Core .NET Standard From .NET 5 all projects can be run cross platform and cross verticals like WPF and ASP.NET. Here are some […]
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