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Aspire in a Sandbox

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Running a .NET Aspire dev environment inside a Gondolin micro-VM.

Sandboxing the Eager Deputy

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AI coding agents crossed from Level 2 to Level 3 autonomy. The infrastructure didn’t change with them.

The Control Paradox

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:39:59 +0000

Your agent orchestrator probably gives you less control than you think.

MSBuild Traversal project best practices

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:48:22 +0000

Best practices for using MSBuild traversal projects

Profiling and asynchronous initialization to improve PowerShell startup

Fri, 24 May 2024 20:15:11 +0000

Initialize your PowerShell profile asynchronously using idle events

Simplify MSBuild Directory.Build.props and .targets files with vertical slices

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:07:20 +0000

Use vertical slices / features as an organization mechanism and make Directory.Build.props and .targets files easier to work with

Implementing IOptionsFactory to create custom options instances

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 17:10:21 +0000

Recently, I was writing a .NET console app to integrate with a third-party library and had an opportunity to use the IOptions pattern. However, the settings object didn’t have a public, parameterless constructor. Here’s how I used IOptionsFactory to support these types of options classes…

Running post setup commands on Azure VMs with SetupComplete2

Tue, 12 May 2020 04:19:48 +0000

Trying to enable the Administrator account on a custom VM image for Azure lead down a rabbit hole

Programmatically skip / ignore tests in MSTest v2

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:38:20 +0000

Create a custom attribute to extend MSTest to programmatically skip / ignore tests based on factors like OS or framework version

A 2017 Squamish 50/50 race report

Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:02:01 +0000

Team RunRun has a tradition of writing race reports, both as an opportunity for reflection, and to share lessons learned with other runners. I decided to write a longer-than-usual report because in planning for this race I felt there wasn’t a lot of information about the Squamish races available.

Combining cron expressions in Azure WebJobs TimerTriggers

Wed, 09 Aug 2017 20:32:27 +0000

Azure supports using cron expressions to trigger WebJobs, but each job can have only a single cron schedule. Learn how to use the TimerSchedule class to create custom schedules and combine cron expressions

Generating WPA Regions of Interest from performance marks

Wed, 26 Jul 2017 23:57:58 +0000

Automate creating WPA Regions of Interest files using PowerShell

Using the Windows Performance Toolkit to analyze performance marks on Edge and Chrome

Mon, 24 Jul 2017 18:53:27 +0000

Learn how to use the Windows Performance Toolkit to drill into web app scenarios using performance.mark

The curious case of PowerShell, Castle DynamicProxy and indexers

Tue, 19 Jul 2016 23:33:34 +0000

I seem to have hit some sort of edge case between the Castle DynamicProxy object and the binding / dispatching of method calls in PowerShell.

HTTP & HTTPS in Service Fabric Web API

Wed, 27 Apr 2016 01:19:19 +0000

Updating the boilerplate code in a Service Fabric Web API to support HTTP and HTTPS endpoints simultaneously

Running docpad on Azure in 2015

Wed, 23 Dec 2015 14:19:19 +0000

I really needed to freshen up the site. It was created hastily and really didn’t follow best practices…

New blog post over at Building Windows 8 blog

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:50:54 +0000

Exciting times! The Building Windows 8 blog recently published a post written by myself and my colleagues…

A tech demo showing canvas performance and quality in IE 10

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:42:00 +0000

In IE 10 we’re focusing on performance and quality of our canvas implementation…

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