Heavily Caffeinated

Good stuff about life at Microsoft and being a Software Engineer on Visual Studio's Cloud Platform Team

I am leaving Microsoft

The blog has been a blast, and though I may be terrible at responding to all your comments, believe...

Author: Matt Sampson Date: 04/06/2015

Micro Blog Post - Open Door / Closed Door Problem and TypeScript Solution

The open door / closed door problem was just something I was messing with after an interview...

Author: Matt Sampson Date: 03/23/2015

GitHub Language Correlation for Jan 1 2014 - Feb 1 2015

GitHub seems like a great place to view some statistics regarding development languages. I wanted to...

Author: Matt Sampson Date: 02/11/2015

3rd Party Controls Shout out - Syncfusion for LightSwitch

Visual Studio LightSwitch (Silverlight Client) Syncfusion Controls I've seen plenty of questions in...

Author: Matt Sampson Date: 10/22/2014

Azure Resource Manager Tools for Visual Studio - Advanced Template Editing

Update 11/17/2014: This is RELEASED now! Go get the official released public bits from available in...

Author: Matt Sampson Date: 08/19/2014

Visual Studio Database Project + Web Project Into One Web Package. YES. FOR REAL.

Visual Studio SQL Database Projects are super cool projects that let you create and manage your SQL...

Author: Matt Sampson Date: 06/23/2014

Azure Development with VMs with Azure SDK 2.3 and Update 2 RC

A new era of developing and testing in the cloud is upon us! (Well I may be exaggerating a bit) For...

Author: Matt Sampson Date: 04/03/2014

What Version of Azure PowerShell am I running?

Unable to find a decent answer to this question on all of the internets I checked, I figured I'd...

Author: Matt Sampson Date: 04/01/2014

Getting LightSwitch Web App Memory Dumps and so much more using KUDU

There’s an nice little diagnostic tool that is available for all Windows Azure Web Sites that...

Author: Matt Sampson Date: 01/06/2014

HTML Upload Control For LightSwitch SharePoint Apps!

-(And it’s available through NuGet!) For a while now I’ve been seeing quite a few requests from...

Author: Matt Sampson Date: 10/28/2013

OData Apps in Update 2–Querying data from Stack Overflow

OData Services I want a way to keep track of questions that people have about LightSwitch.  And...

Author: Matt Sampson Date: 05/23/2013

LightSwitch – 10 Performance Tweaks Anyone Can Do

“HOW can I improve performance in my LightSwitch app?” – is a question that pops...

Author: Matt Sampson Date: 12/28/2012

Finding Your LightSwitch Produced OData Services (Visual Studio 2012)

With the latest version of LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 you can now consume as well as produce...

Author: Matt Sampson Date: 06/13/2012

How Do I: Import and Store a Data File

Today’s post is going to be a short one about how to import a file through a Visual Studio...

Author: Matt Sampson Date: 05/23/2011

Fargo VS LightSwitch Team

Hello All, Time to start a new chapter in my life at Microsoft. I officiall started on the Visual...

Author: Matt Sampson Date: 04/14/2011