Time Cockpit Blog - Rainer Stropek

In this video I show an end-to-end example for programming with Visual Studio Online "Monaco". Monaco is currently in preview available for Windows Azure Websites. The sample uses TypeScript and AngularJS. Everything is done in the browser: Editing, compiling, package management, etc. The sample accesses an early prototype of the OData provider of time cockpit.  Read more ...

Because of a training I had to do recently, I took my existing PInvoke material and brought it up to date. Here are the slides. The samples have also been refreshed and I have put them into my GitHub repo.  Read more ...

At BASTA Spring 2014 I did a presentation about C# Scripting with Project Roslyn. Here you find the slides and the sample code.  Read more ...

The latest version of time cockpit adds the ability to create custom reports with Microsoft's Reporting Services tools. Watch a short video about this new feature and read about the details.  Read more ...

At BASTA 2014 I gave an interview about the current state of the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform (German). Here you can watch it. I would love to hear your feedback.  Read more ...

At ALM Days my second talk is about unit testing with Microsoft Fakes, Stubs, and Shims. Here is the sample that I am going to use.  Read more ...

My ALM Days talk about building in the cloud went fine. However, the last demo didn't fully work and I finally ran out of time. That's the risk of a 100% live coding session. The reason was a small mistake that I made while standing on stage. Here is the description of the mistake. Hope it helps you to avoid doing the same.  Read more ...

At TechEd 2013 I did a talk about build in the cloud. For ALM Days next week, Microsoft invited me to do an updated version of this session. So I brought my samples up-to-date and switched to Git. In this blog post I describe what I will demo during the session.  Read more ...

I regularly do talks about developing with Windows Azure Mobile Services, TypeScript, and AngularJS. Today I am speaker at the .NET user group in Vienna. For this talk I updated my sample to the latest version of AngularJS and TypeScript. Additionally I recorded the talk (German).  Read more ...

At BASTA 2014 Spring conference I will do a full-day C# workshop again. This time we have over 90 registrations, wow! This huge interest in the workshop is awesome. In this blog article I summarize important resources for the workshop. Use them to follow the samples or recall the topics after the workshop.  Read more ...