Head in the Cloud

Sharing my PaaSion (oh, and I like silly puns)

Azure Active Directory B2C and Azure Functions

Hello everyone, In the light of my recent post about B2C and ASP.NET Core web APIs, I thought I'd...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 03/07/2017

Azure Active Directory B2C: Build an ASP.NET Core MVC web API

Hello everyone, [Update]: I shared a sample solution on GitHub:...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 03/06/2017

Reducing the volume (and cost) of data sent to Application Insights

Hello everyone, In a project I have been working on recently we relied on Application Insights to...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 03/01/2017

Richer exception details in Application Insights (custom exceptions!)

Hello everyone, [Update]: I thought a great place for this code to run would be a telemetry...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 02/17/2017

Rebranding my blog

Hello everyone, In 2014 I changed into the Windows Reliability support team within Microsoft,...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 02/16/2017

My experience with .NET Native Preview

Hello everyone, I just published this new post on our team blog over here: https://aka.ms/Oz6rgn...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 05/21/2014

Failed the WACK Test – How do I get more information?

Hello everyone, So you finished your Windows Store app and are eager to get it into the Store...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 04/11/2013

Asynchronous Programming in .NET 4.5 – in Spanish

Hello everyone, My colleague José Ortega and I just published some articles about the new...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 02/22/2013

Be careful when making DataTransferManager.DataRequested an async function

Hello everyone, Update: Thanks to Nigel Sampson for correcting my post. :) As you probably already...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 11/20/2012

How to avoid “The directory data type cannot be converted to/from a native DS data type” (0x8000500C) in managed code

Hello everyone, We may find ourselves in the situation where we need to access custom properties...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 08/01/2012

How to listen for Printer Connections?

Hello everyone, The other day, a customer wanted to listen (in C++) for newly added printers. He was...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 04/09/2012

Problem running decoupled WMI providers simultaneously

Hello everyone, The other day, I had a customer who implemented a decoupled WMI provider in her...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 02/21/2012

TFS 2010: An error occurred while validating. HRESULT = '8000000A'

Hello everyone, I’ve had a few cases already, where our customers came across a rare problem:...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 02/10/2012

WPF ignoring BiDi control characters

Hello everyone, Have you ever tried using the following BiDirectional (Disclaimer: The content...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 12/15/2011

File Server Resource Manager: Creating a custom classification module - Running the Classification Module

Hello everyone, This is the final part of my mini-series on how to create a custom file...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 10/18/2011

File Server Resource Manager: Creating a custom classification module - Registration

Hello everyone, This is part 3 of my mini-series on how to create a custom file classification...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 10/18/2011

File Server Resource Manager: Creating a custom classification module - Implementation

Hello everyone, This is part 3 of my mini-series on how to create a custom file classification...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 10/18/2011

File Server Resource Manager: Creating a custom classification module - Introduction

Hello everyone, This is the first part of my mini-series on how to create a custom file...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 10/18/2011

File Server Resource Manager: Creating a custom classification module - Index

Hello everyone, The other day a customer wanted to classify his documents using the File Resource...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 10/03/2011

Communication between Windows Services and Applications in Windows Vista and higher

Hello everyone, If you are trying to migrate a Windows service that communicates with other...

Author: Helge Mahrt Date: 09/15/2011