The Edge.js project allows you to use .NET Framework inside of a Node.js application. Why would you ever do that? Scott Hanselman puts it this way: One such problem is playing audio. Node.js core does not support this functionality, so one must resort to writing a native extension in C/C++. You can dust off that Stroustrup book, tool up for memory...

Eleanor Roosevelt once said “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people”. During JSConf  ideas are discussed. This also leaves a lot of time for conversations between people. I had the privilege to speak during JSConf.US 2014 on the topic of in-process interop between Node.js and CLR. However, the true highlight...

The latest release of the Edge.js project adds support for scripting Node.js from a .NET application. This enables you to leverage the power of Node.js ecosystem with the thousands of NPM modules from within a CLR application. Learn more Get the all-inclusive Edge.js NuGet package You can now script Node.js code (not just JavaScript) within...

“Grand[m|p]a” (have to be careful with pronouns this year), “what did you use to write cross-platform software back in 2014? No, really… do tell… Wow, amazing… It is, like, they really did not have […]?” This post describes a cross platform development setup that proved efficient for me in the course of several cross platform projects (most notably...

Hosting web apps in Azure, by the book Many web apps consist of web, worker, and storage components. The web component handles HTTP traffic from clients which results in new work items (e.g. uploaded pictures that need to be resized). The worker component performs the actual work independently from interactions between the client and web component....

Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) allow your web applications to be exposed over HTTP and HTTPS. After you configure your Azure web site with an SSL certificate, by default your endpoints will be reachable over both HTTP and HTTPS. For some apps you may want to prevent the use of HTTP and require callers to always use HTTPS. How do you do this within an...