SQL Server Performance Dashboard (SSPD) is a small open source web app that shows you performance & problems of one or more SQL Server instances and their databases in near real time 

One year ago MVVM wasn’t very famous. I remember the first article I read about it, about using MVVM to simplify the management of treeview controls. In the last six months, MVVM has been quickly promoted to THE methodology to use when developing WPF applications. During this amount of time, famous WPF developers started to merge their existing MVVM classes into libraries. Those libraries are now known as MVVM frameworks and contain classes designed to help developers to use MVVM in their projects 

Vex is a modern dialog library which is highly configurable, easily stylable, and gets out of the way. You'll love vex because it's tiny (6kb minified, 2kb minifed + gzipped), has a clear and simple API, works on mobile devices, and can be customized to match your style in seconds.  Demo

npm config set proxy http://proxy_host:port 
npm config set http-proxy http://proxy_host:port 
npm config set https-proxy http://proxy_host:port 
npm config set strict-ssl false

In an earlier column, I suggested that one way to speed up your application was to reduce the trips you make to your database, specifically by avoiding calling a stored procedure multiple times. To enable that, I showed how to pass a stored procedure multiple parameter values in a single call and then, inside the stored procedure, load the parameters into a table where they could be integrated with other SQL statements.

We decided to use Qt for our next Geospatial Intelligence Desktop App, but the .NET Core performance was close to Qt and both easily outperformed the JavaFX prototype. So, we are going to use .NET Core for our Geospatial Intelligence Services backend. 

A DTO is nothing more than a container class that exposes properties but no methods. A DTO is helpful whenever you need to group values in ad hoc structures for passing data around.  

Analyzing Solorigate, the compromised DLL file that started a sophisticated cyberattack, and how Microsoft Defender helps protect customers  

The .NET Core Debugging with WSL 2 – Preview extension lets you run and debug your .NET Core console and web applications in WSL 2 from Visual Studio. This allows Windows developers targeting Linux production environments to have a higher fidelity local debugging experience.

If you're interested in being a Web Developer but you’re not sure where to start, we have just the course for you. In today’s fast-changing world of technology, navigating the languages, frameworks, platforms, and even the vocabulary can seem confusing. Clear up the confusion with popular experts Michael Choi of Coding Dojo and Christopher Harrison of Microsoft, as they walk you through the basic concepts of web development.