Microsoft MVP Award - 2017

On July 2017, I was proud to receive my second Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. This year the award came in earlier than expected, as the Microsoft MVP program decided to grant these awards once a year moving forward.   This is rewarding recognition that makes...

SQL Server - Pivot Rows to Columns

On systems that are meta-data driven, there may not be a concrete table schema declaration, and the meta-data values can be stored as rows. To provide an example, let’s build a custom_field table that can hold multiple custom values for a particular entity:CodeProject Pivoting rows to columns Setup...

Building Angular2 CLI Bootstrap3 Menu Component

With Angular2 CLI, the approach to include Bootstrap components is somewhat different that the traditional way of installing our packages and including our framework references manually.  In this article, we take a look at build an Angular2 app using the Angular CLI. We also show how to include...