System.Blog.Martens.Ben
The Tech Blog of Ben Martens
Azure Data Explorer Functions and Control Commands
A new employee on our team recently went through the Pluralsight Kusto course and gave it the thumbs...
Date: 12/06/2018
Client App Calling An Azure Function With AAD
I recently needed to create a client app that used an AAD application to authenticate with an Azure...
Date: 11/07/2018
Kusto Code Hygiene and Performance Tips
Now that you've started authoring your first Kusto queries in Azure Data Explorer, there are a few...
Date: 10/15/2018
Getting Started with the Kusto Query Language (KQL)
Azure Data Explorer is in public preview and their documentation is an excellent place to educate...
Date: 10/11/2018
Ingesting Your First CSV Into Azure Data Explorer
We've been using the Kusto query language internally for quite a while and over that time, and while...
Date: 09/26/2018
Azure Data Explorer Public Preview
There is lots of great stuff flowing out of Microsoft Ignite this week, but my favorite so far is...
Date: 09/24/2018
Encrypt Secrets With A Certificate In Azure Websites
Here's the scenario: you have a secret that needs to be used in your website but you know it's...
Date: 05/09/2017
IP Security in IIS Express
If you're building an Azure website and you want to add IP security, there are quite a few blog...
Date: 10/20/2016
Getting Started with Power Query for Excel
Power Query v1 launched a few months ago. Power Query is part of the Microsoft Power BI suite. If...
Date: 10/22/2013
Ode to Data Explorer
To the tune of The Candy Man by Sammy Davis Jr. Who can talk to SQL, sprinkle with Hadoop Cover it...
Date: 03/15/2013
TFS Work In Progress Shelvesets
By now you all know that you should save your progress often. This batch file will quickly create a...
Date: 11/08/2012
Windows Server 2008 R2 and Desktop Gadgets
Running Windows Server 2008 R2 as a desktop OS does have it’s advantages. As a tester, Hyper V is...
Date: 05/22/2012
Outlook Rules
I live in Microsoft Outlook at work and at home. At home I can just let everything dump into my...
Date: 05/22/2012
Traffic Analysis with Microsoft Data Explorer
For the past couple months, I’ve been running a simple app on my desktop which records the estimated...
Date: 04/03/2012
How to Override a WP7 App Submission
I love writing apps for Windows Phone, and I’ve devoted quite a lot of time to my most popular one,...
Date: 01/14/2012
Bug Tales: WP7 Secondary Live Tiles
In my spare time, I have written quite a few Windows Phone applications. By far the best and most...
Date: 12/08/2011
Removing Errors In Data Explorer
If you step through my previous post about Netflix + Rotten Tomatoes and try to recreate it, you...
Date: 12/07/2011
Using Data Explorer to Combine Netflix and Rotten Tomatoes
I recently reactivated my Netflix subscription after having it on hold for a few months. I had a lot...
Date: 11/18/2011
Do Bicyclists Like Yogurt?
It's so much fun to have material like these videos going out for our product! Here’s another new...
Date: 11/09/2011
New “Data Explorer” Video
Our team has released another video! Hopefully it won’t be too much longer before you can actually...
Date: 11/04/2011
Microsoft Codename “Data Explorer” Announced
I’m happy to announce that the project I’ve been working on is finally public! Technically the...
Date: 10/14/2011
Ambiguous Morse Solver
Decoding Morse Code when there are character delimiters is fairly trivial. When you don’t know where...
Date: 01/06/2011
Play Music After Build
Building our product can take 10-20 minutes depending on how much of the tree you have selected. In...
Date: 06/29/2010
Modules Window in Visual Studio 2010
I went to pull up the modules window in VS2010, but I couldn’t find it. Maybe I did something to...
Date: 06/09/2010
PDC Videos
Here are some videos of the PDC sessions related to my project. The first one, specifically, is...
Date: 11/24/2009
SQL Server Modeling November 09 CTP
The latest CTP from my team is now public on the web! Here are a few of the “M” language updates...
Date: 11/20/2009
MSDN Data DevCenter
Members of my group have been hard at work getting a new MSDN Data DevCenter up and running at...
Date: 11/18/2009
Logs Named By Current DateTime
I have a scheduled task and I’d like to save logs from the output. After some quick batch file work,...
Date: 10/02/2009
Taskbar Pinned Shortcuts Location
Ever wondered where those pinned shortcuts are stored in Win7? %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet...
Date: 10/01/2009
Restrict Your RAM
I recently had a stress test bug assigned to me that I couldn’t repro on my machine with 6GB of...
Date: 09/30/2009
Oslo May 2009 CTP Available
The May 2009 "Oslo" CTP is available on the Oslo Developer Center! Shawn Wildermuth has done a nice...
Date: 05/26/2009
Check Binary Signing
I’ve recently been doing a lot of work around signed and unsigned assemblies. Someone passed along...
Date: 03/05/2009
Why Oslo Is Important
This article by Dan Vanderboom is one of the best pieces of writing I’ve seen to explain why Oslo is...
Date: 01/21/2009
Compressing Primes
A recent program contest at work challenged us to find as many Pythagorean triples as we could that...
Date: 12/30/2008
Oslo on .NET Rocks
Chris Sells is a PM on our team and spent quite a while talking to Carl Franklin on episode #401 of...
Date: 12/12/2008
Hard Drive Penalties
In an introductory programming class, I had a professor who explained CPU cache as sitting in a...
Date: 12/10/2008
"Oslo" Web Links
Microsoft "Oslo" Resources "Oslo" Developer Center Download the "Oslo" SDK Ask a Question About...
Date: 11/04/2008
Models Remixed
From www.modelsremixed.com...
Date: 10/27/2008
Microsoft "Oslo" Web Page
Now that PDC is in full swing, the Oslo Developer Center has been published. It contains a lot of...
Date: 10/27/2008
Programmatically Changing Your IP Address
A friend needs to change back and forth between a DHCP network and a static IP network. Rather than...
Date: 09/23/2008
Oslo Elevator Pitch
One of the big challenges for me has always been coming up with a short and sweet elevator pitch for...
Date: 09/08/2008
Interview with Ivo Manolov, WPF Test Manager
Michael Hunter and I headed over to building 40 this week to interview Ivo Manolov, the test manager...
Date: 08/13/2008
Oslo at PDC 2008
Are you going to PDC this year? Be sure to stop by some of the Connected Systems Division talks to...
Date: 08/05/2008
We Want Your Crash Dump
I'll admit that prior to coming to Microsoft, I rarely clicked "Send report to Microsoft"...
Date: 07/24/2008
Blogs of Senior Microsoft Testers
I have been meaning to make a post listing out the blogs of some of Microsoft's senior testers, and...
Date: 07/22/2008
Tester Spotlight: Bryan Lipscy
Michael Hunter and I recently recorded an interview with Bryan Lipscy, a tester on the Windows help...
Date: 06/30/2008
I Am The Empire
Thanks to the team over at Microspotting.com for sending me an "I Am The Empire" t-shirt!
Date: 06/25/2008
Elevated Permissions and the Vista SP1 Registry
We recently ran into an interesting issue with our installer which requires elevated permissions to...
Date: 06/18/2008