Working with COM add-ins in VS Code
This morning I was talking with some colleagues about how I’m working on a boring COM add-in for Outlook and I can’t use VS Code for that. But then I realized that it was...
Are debugging skills critical today?
I wanted to write a reply to Victor’s tweet but 280 characters are not enough so I figured I’ll just write a short blog post about it. Here’s how I see this matter. I...
I just found out why I’m not doing TDD
When you ask most people why they don’t do TDD or any other form of unit testing they tell you that they don’t have enough time. I understand why they say that, and I’ve...
Going serverless with Azure
Here are some of the resources from my presentation “Going serverless with Azure”. Please use this feedback form to rate my presentation, it will take just 5 seconds. Presentation slides:https://www.slideshare.net/BogdanBujdea/going-serverless-with-azure Code:https://github.com/thewindev/azure-serverless TradingView chart:https://www.tradingview.com/chart/WiAaybp9/ Learning resources:...
Sorting using directives by assembly and length with Roslyn
Exactly, why would I do that? Usually people don’t care about them, I know I didn’t until I started my internship at Thinslices a few years ago, but my mentors explained to me that when...
Testing Windows 10 apps…in 2017
It’s been a while since I wrote my last article regarding testing Windows 10 apps, and some of you asked me privately or in comments to do a follow up article. In this article I’m...
How to open the keyboard when using TextBox.Focus in UWP
I’m working on a small Romanian news reader and I encountered a problem when I was trying to focus on a text box control. The flow was like this: click on “Search” button from...
Bye bye Windows Phone…hello Android
I am I was a Windows Phone user since 2011, but two weeks ago I replaced my Lumia 930 with a Samsung Galaxy S7, and trust me when I say that it wasn’t an easy decision. This...
Using Cortana for voice activated apps
This Saturday(November 7th) I’ll be speaking at CodeCamp Iasi about “Using Cortana for voice activated apps”. Interested? Then please register here and come and see my presentation between 13:00-13:45 in Room 4, floor -2(hurry up, only...
Using DeviceFamily specific views with Caliburn.Micro
I was reading an article about building adaptive layout in Windows 10 with RelativePanel and AdaptiveTrigger, and one of the topics was about device family specific views. I was using a Caliburn.Micro project to test...
Testing Windows 10 apps
I’m a big supporter of TDD and that’s why I was really looking forward to setup a project for testing Windows 10 apps and see how it works. Unfortunately, testing Windows 10 apps is not...