Articles by Gaston Verelst (Articles: 5, Technical Blogs: 29)

Articles: 5, Technical Blogs: 29

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Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning	K-means using F# 28 Feb 2019 Updated: 10 Jun 2022 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 5.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,552 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use F# to implement algorithms such of k-means
Desktop Programming
Universal Windows Platform	Today's Best Practices for Migrating Windows apps to Windows on Arm 28 Jan 2021 Updated: 28 Jan 2021 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,757 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, we'll demonstrate the performance hit a sample application takes under emulation, and demonstrate how to port an existing codebase to Windows on Arm. We will show how to set up your development environment to target the ARM64 processor using .NET framework 4.8.
WPF	Migrating Windows Apps to Windows on Arm with WPF and .NET 6 2 Jul 2021 Updated: 7 Jul 2021 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,922 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, we will see how to convert a Windows .NET 6 WPF application to a Windows on Arm (WoA) application.
Hosted Services
Azure	Deploying a Web Application in Microsoft Azure 3 Mar 2015 Updated: 3 Mar 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,923 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes how to set up the deployment from VSO to an MS Azure website
	DTAP Deployment using VSO 7 Apr 2015 Updated: 7 Apr 2015 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,390 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes how to set up the deployment flow from DEV to TEST to ACC to PROD using VSO.
	How to Use Microsoft Azure Key Vault 25 Apr 2019 Updated: 25 Apr 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,932 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to set up and use an Azure key vault to store your secret values
Mobile Apps
Xamarin	Building 64-Bit Windows on ARM Apps with Xamarin 23 Jun 2022 Updated: 23 Jun 2022 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,820 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article will show how to create a simple but complete WoA-native MAUI application.

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	Handling a “Microservices” Project [Technical Blog] 7 Mar 2016 Updated: 7 Mar 2016 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.30 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,450 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Handling a Microservices project
.NET
	Automating the Creation of NuGet Packages with Different .NET Versions [Technical Blog] 7 Apr 2017 Updated: 7 Apr 2017 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,001 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. how to automate the creation of NuGet Packages with different .NET versions
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	Structuring Your Excel – “The Hidden Agenda” [Technical Blog] 4 Jan 2017 Updated: 5 Jan 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,601 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Most developers don't like Excel as a "development platform". Structuring your Excel makes it maintainable, and makes replacing it by some code possible.
	How To Set Up A Parameterized Unit Test [Technical Blog] 7 Feb 2016 Updated: 7 Feb 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,101 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to set up a parameterized unit test
	Let IntelliTest Generate Your Tests! [Technical Blog] 15 Feb 2016 Updated: 16 Feb 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,500 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Let IntelliTest generate your tests!
	Using the Repository Pattern [Technical Blog] 21 Mar 2016 Updated: 21 Mar 2016 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.28 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,241 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using the Repository pattern
	Creating an OData V4 service [Technical Blog] 17 Apr 2016 Updated: 17 Apr 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,423 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I’m writing an agenda application, where the data can be delivered to the calendar control using either REST or OData V4. I choose the latter because this will allow for much more flexibility afterwards. I already have an MVC 5 … Continue reading →
	Improving throughput by using queue-based patterns [Technical Blog] 11 Oct 2016 Updated: 11 Oct 2016 Rating: 4.71/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.84 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,880 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Introduction In my current project we let the users run simulations. Because of flexibility, the calculations are performed by Excel spreadsheets. There are many different spreadsheets available, for different kinds of simulations.
Database Development
	Database Normalization [Technical Blog] 23 May 2016 Updated: 23 May 2016 Rating: 2.54/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 1.53 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,850 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Introduction After I published last week’s article somebody asked me why I stated that (in this case) the problem didn’t originate in having a function with logic, but merely having to work with a database that is not normalized. So let’s talk … Continue reading →
	What is the Role of the Database? [Technical Blog] 7 Jul 2016 Updated: 7 Jul 2016 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.71 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,550 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What is the role of the database?
SQL Server	Why Would You Use Common Table Expressions? [Technical Blog] 9 Apr 2018 Updated: 10 Apr 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 5.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,510 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Why you would use Common Table Expressions
DevOps
Load Testing	Test Driven Development [Technical Blog] 25 Jan 2016 Updated: 26 Jan 2016 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,030 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Test driven development
Testing	Is Testing A Waste Of Time? [Technical Blog] 18 Jan 2016 Updated: 18 Jan 2016 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.86 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,202 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Is testing a waste of time?
	Setting Up Unit Testing [Technical Blog] 1 Feb 2016 Updated: 1 Feb 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,071 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to set up unit testing
	Grasshopper Unit Testing [Technical Blog] 29 Feb 2016 Updated: 29 Feb 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,011 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Grasshopper unit testing
	Unit testing your Repositories [Technical Blog] 26 Apr 2016 Updated: 26 Apr 2016 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 2.80 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,470 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The problem We have created are data layer, and of course we want to test it. It is very hard to use a (physical) database to test your code. There are some problems with this (commonly used) approach: Unit tests … Continue reading →
	Structuring an MVC App for Easy Testing [Technical Blog] 7 Aug 2016 Updated: 7 Aug 2016 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.29 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,320 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to structure an MVC app for easy testing
Hosted Services
Azure	Architecture of a Polyglot Azure Application [Technical Blog] 4 Aug 2017 Updated: 4 Aug 2017 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.96 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,661 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Architecture of a Polyglot Azure Application
	Sending Notifications with Corona Updates to Thousands of Doctors (using Azure Notification Hub) [Technical Blog] 10 May 2020 Updated: 10 May 2020 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,721 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to send out regular notification updates using Azure Notification Hub
	Creating Multiple Identical VMs in Microsoft Azure [Technical Blog] 27 Jan 2019 Updated: 27 Jan 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,841 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, I show how to create an image from a VM in Microsoft Azure, and use this to create identical VMs.
Moq
	Mocking Functionality using MOQ [Technical Blog] 14 Mar 2016 Updated: 14 Mar 2016 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,942 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Mocking functionality using MOQ
Productivity Apps and Services
Microsoft Office	Creating a Visio Add-In in VS2017 [Technical Blog] 3 Feb 2018 Updated: 4 Mar 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,203 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to create a Visio Add-in in VS2017
Programming Languages
C++	How to Describe Object State [Technical Blog] 10 Jan 2016 Updated: 10 Jan 2016 Rating: 3.40/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,650 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to describe object state
F#	Implementing the Excel Simulator in F# [Technical Blog] 12 Mar 2017 Updated: 12 Mar 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,970 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to implement the Excel simulator in F#
	Using an F# DSL to Generate C# code [Technical Blog] 3 May 2021 Updated: 3 May 2021 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.30 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,490 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. More readable Domain Specific Language in F#
SQL	Unit Testing Your Repositories – The Code [Technical Blog] 16 May 2016 Updated: 20 May 2016 Rating: 4.45/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.02 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,170 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Unit testing your repositories - the code
Typescript	Knockout, Self, This, TypeScript. Are You Still Following? [Technical Blog] 12 Sep 2016 Updated: 12 Sep 2016 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,532 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Knockout, self, this, TypeScript. Are you still following?
Web Development
	State Chart Diagram - Part II [Technical Blog] 10 Jan 2016 Updated: 10 Jan 2016 Rating: 4.08/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.17 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,230 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. State Chart Diagram - Part II
ASP.NET	Areas in ASP.NET Core [Technical Blog] 15 Apr 2017 Updated: 15 Apr 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,851 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Areas in ASP.NET Core

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Gaston Verelst

Architect Faq.be bvba

Belgium

Gaston Verelst is the owner of Faq.be, an IT consultancy company based in Belgium (the land of beer and chocolate!) He went through a variety of projects during his career so far. Starting with Clipper - the Summer '87 edition, he moved on to C and mainly C++ during the first 15 years of his career.

He quickly realized that teaching others is very rewarding. In 1995, he became one of the first MCT's in Belgium. He teaches courses on various topics:
• C, C++, MFC, ATL, VB6, JavaScript
• SQL Server (he is also an MSDBA)
• Object Oriented Analysis and Development
• He created courses on OMT and UML and trained hundreds of students in OO
• C# (from the first beta versions)
• Web development (from ASP, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC)
• Windows development (WPF, Windows Forms, WCF, Entity Framework, …)
• Much more

Of course, this is only possible with hands-on experience. Gaston worked on many large scale projects for the biggest banks in Belgium, Automotive, Printing, Government, NGOs. His latest and greatest project is all about extending an IoT gateway built in MS Azure.

"Everything should be as simple as it can be but not simpler!" – Albert Einstein

Gaston applies this in all his projects. Using frameworks in the best ways possible he manages to make code shorter, more stable and much more elegant. Obviously, he refuses to be paid by lines of code!

This led to the blog at https://msdev.pro. The articles of this blog are also available on https://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/MemberArticles.aspx?amid=4423636, happy reading!

When he is not working or studying, Gaston can be found on the tatami in his dojo. He is the chief instructor of Ju-Jitsu club Zanshin near Antwerp and holds high degrees in many martial arts as well.

Gaston can best be reached via https://www.linkedin.com/in/gverelst/.

Articles by Gaston Verelst (Articles: 5, Technical Blogs: 29)

Articles: 5, Technical Blogs: 29

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Artificial Intelligence

Desktop Programming

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.NET

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