With the rapid evolution of user needs, technologies and processes, applications can quickly become antiquated. While developers work hard to maintain their relevancy, there are ultimately a plethora of arguments for rewriting applications. In this post, we will explore many of these arguments in order to help you determine whether this is the best courseRead more
The following is a summary of a virtual discussion that took place between members of the application development team at Superior Consulting Services. It highlights a number of the current trends, techniques and technologies in the application development space. Moderator: What technologies or methodologies surrounding Application Development have you used recently that really excite you?Read more
I recently worked on a project that used web services to feed information to the SSRS reports that were created for the various business segments at this particular organization. Stemming from that project, this blog post will present how to create a simple web service that returns a serialized dataset and a simple SSRS reportRead more
Introduction Many software applications present formatted data to the user via user interfaces and reports. Often times the code that formats the data is difficult to read and maintain. This blog will briefly touch on a new C# 6.0 feature, String Interpolation, to format string data. In many cases, using string interpolation reduces the sizeRead more
Searching for keys in key-value columns and retrieving values in another table. Whether you are a database programmer or an applications programmer working with Transact-SQL, there are common problems that reoccur. One such problem is when you need to search for keys in columns set up as key-value type record structures while inserting the valueRead more
The Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern separates an application into three main components: the Model, the View and the Controller. The ASP.NET MVC framework provides an alternative to the ASP.NET Web Forms pattern for creating web applications. It is a lightweight, highly-testable presentation framework that is being used to easily create large, scalable and highly-performant websitesRead more
Introduction During development of an ASP.NET MVC 5 Web application, the customer needs to understand and determine who is using the application and how they were using it. To assess how users are using the application, one would have to instrument the application in such a way as to collect information every time a controllerRead more
Contemporary digital cameras imprint metadata, or information about the photo, within the photo itself. This blog addresses what information is commonly available, the data extracted from a specific JPEG image, and how to extract it using the C# programming language. Digital Photograph Metadata Several types of data can be extracted from an image such asRead more
Initially used as an analogy to hardwiring electronic circuits, “hard coding” was meant to convey the inflexibility which results from its usage within software design and implementation. Hard coding, as we know it today, requires a program’s source code to be changed when an external data source has changed. In most cases, it may beRead more
