Adding a Pop-Up Window with Dropdowns in Microsoft PowerApps This is Part Three of my app for maintaining data on vehicles found in the video game GTA Online using Microsoft PowerApps… Read More »

Creating a Phone App to Manage Vehicle Data using Microsoft PowerApps PowerApps is a rapid-development platform for creating applications primarily for internal use by businesses, and is part of Microsoft’s Power Platform, which also includes Flow and Power BI. I have done some development as part of a team at my day-to-day job, but also wanted a personal project for additional practice. I realized I already had a plethora of data that I could use to create a demo app… Read More »

Creating A Microsoft Flow Custom Connector You can create a Microsoft Flow that will allow you to send an Email to an Office 365 Email account and that account will search for Help Desk Tickets in the popular open source Help Desk application ADefHelpDesk.com, and return an email to you with a listing of matching Help Desk Tickets… Read More »

Retrieve Emails Using Azure Functions And Create Help Desk Tickets Using API You can create an Azure function that will retrieve emails, every 5 minutes, from a Pop3 email account and create Help Desk Tickets. To demonstrate this, we will implement a solution that creates Help Desk Tickets in the popular open source Help Desk application ADefHelpDesk.com... Read More »

Calling a REST API from .Net Core Including Uploading Files Calling a REST based API from .Net Core is usually more complicated than many of the samples you may have seen. The reason is that each REST based API can implement its own unique security measures. In addition, passing complex parameters, and uploading files though a REST based API, can prove challenging… Read More »

Retrieving Pop3 Emails Using Azure Functions You can create an automated Azure function that will retrieve emails from a Pop3 email account and store the list of the emails in an Azure storage Table and the emails themselves as Azure storage Blobs… Read More »

Turbocharging Your Angular 4+ Development Using Typewriter Using the open source Typewriter plug-in with Visual Studio will allow you to automate much of the boilerplate code for your classes and services… Read More »

An Angular 4 .Net Core 2.0 Example With Application Shell and Authentication You can easily create an Angular 4 application using Microsoft .Net Core 2.0 that has an application menu shell and authentication. This example also uses the open source component, PrimeNG… Read More »

An Angular 4 .Net Core Application Updater You can allow your application end users to fully update their version of your application by simply uploading a .zip file… Read More »

A .Net Core Angular 4 File Manager Using PrimeNG You can easily implement a full multi-file upload and management in a .Net Core C# Angular 4+ application using PrimeNG FileUpload… Read More »

Auto-generating Angular 4 Pages and Creating Custom Components Using Radzen Radzen has some additional features that bring it closer to the features that long time users of Visual Studio LightSwitch are used to. Namely, the page creation wizard, the ability to edit the source code using Visual Studio, and the ability to create custom components… Read More »

Upgrading JavaScriptServices and PrimeNG From Angular 2 to Angular 4+ Upgrading an Angular 2 JavaScriptServices project that uses PrimeNG to Angular 4+ is quite straightforward with a few gotcha’s… Read More »

Implementing PrimeNG FileUpload in a .Net Core Application You can easily implement file upload and management in a .Net Core C# Angular 2+ application using PrimeNG FileUpload… Read More »

Radzen–The New LightSwitch? Over the years this site has been contacted by various companies that create tools for creating Line Of Business applications, in an attempt to reach the users of Visual Studio LightSwitch. The challenge given to all the companies is that they reproduce the example covered on this site for years, the An End-To-End Visual Studio LightSwitch 2013-2015 HTML5 Application. No one has risen to the challenge, until now… Read More »