Developer docs by Indraneel Pole

Kill a process in Windows by Port Number

While working with Angular projects, a lot of times I forget to kill the running NPM process before closing the command line tool. And then when I want to run the app on same port again it throws me an error that the port is used by some other...

Published Wed, Oct 18 2017 11:20 AM by Indraneel Pole

Raspberry Pi Windows 10 IoT Core - How to find isolated storage of your application?

While working on IoT projects, if you are using Windows 10 IoT Core, things can be really painful sometimes. There are advantages and disadvantages of using Windows 10IoT Core. Advantage being you can apply most of your Windows knowledge in some...

Published Thu, Sep 14 2017 9:04 AM by Indraneel Pole

ASP.NET Core Error : Authorization failed for the request at filter 'Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.RequireHttpsAttribute'

Behavior / Steps to reproduce Running ASP.NET Core application on Kestrel Web Server. Every time the app is run, it makes a strange redirect to “https”, and the call doesn’t work. In console you see the following error. Notice : This error...

Published Tue, May 09 2017 5:51 PM by Indraneel Pole

Using Azure Cognitive Services FACE API in UWP App

I have been playing around with Cognitive Services since sometime now, as I find them mind blowing APIs to do a lot of Artificial Intelligence tasks without spending much time building AI algorithms yourself. Take FACE API for example. Normally...

Published Wed, May 03 2017 3:41 PM by Indraneel Pole

Filed under: Machine Learning, UWP, MachineLearning, Azure, Cognitive Services

Function overloading in TypeScript

I come from C# development background, and thus things like method overloading comes to my mind naturally when tackling a certain type of problem. However, when coding in languages like JavaScript, this becomes a problem. As TypeScript compiles...

Published Wed, Feb 15 2017 2:37 PM by Indraneel Pole

Filed under: Visual Studio, TypeScript

Handling child event in parent component with EventEmitter : Angular 2 TypeScript

A lot of times you might stuck in a situation when you have tell the parent that something has happened in the children and if you are new to Angular 2 (Or coming from Angular 1 background) you might be scratching your head on how to do this. This...

Published Wed, Nov 16 2016 12:12 PM by Indraneel Pole

Unity and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server–Why not all files from unity always checked in TFS?

I am a traditional software developer who is dependent a lot on source code management systems like TFS and Git for project collaboration. However, lately my foray into Augmented Reality and HoloLens has taken me into the wild west of Unity and 3D game...

Published Thu, Oct 06 2016 2:40 PM by Indraneel Pole

Filed under: Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, Unity3d, HoloLens, Unity

Industry 4.0 in Practice–Data Visualization meetup summary

So last week, I got an opportunity to talk about Industry 4.0 and the role of data analytics in it at Data visualization Rhein Main meetup. (Very cool meetup, people living around Frankfurt – go visit if you are into data). And I thought I should...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2016 10:12 PM by Indraneel Pole

Filed under: IoT, Data Visualization, Data Analytics, Industry4.0

Guide to create orientation awareness in Sencha Touch Apache Cordova App – Part 1

I have been writing about Sencha Touch and Cordova for sometime now. In a sense it is documentation of my learning of these two platforms in last couple of months which might help somebody out there, who is struggling with the same issues that...

Published Thu, Aug 18 2016 2:47 PM by Indraneel Pole

Filed under: JavaScript, Cross platform development, ExtJS, Sencha Touch, ApacheCordova, Android

“background-size:cover” css property doesn’t work on Android Tablets in Portrait mode

Now, this is a very quirky issue that I faced recently while developing my Android application using Apache Cordova as cross platform application development environment. CSS is anyway too confusing at times, thanks to so many browser instances that a...

Published Tue, Jul 05 2016 12:10 PM by Indraneel Pole

Filed under: Cross platform development, ApacheCordova, CSS, Android

Reading version of your Cordova Application from Config.xml

The version of your Cordova application is always mentioned in config.xml file of the application. This is inside the Element “widget” with Attribute “version”. One might need to read this version of application inside the application...

Published Thu, Jun 16 2016 3:15 PM by Indraneel Pole

How to add icon to your Cordova App with Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova

Setting app icon is usually very straight forward task in application development, and thus should not require a dedicated blogpost for this. However, while using Apache Cordova in Visual Studio environment, it becomes slightly tricky. So, why...

Published Thu, Jun 02 2016 4:45 PM by Indraneel Pole

Filed under: Cordova, Visual Studio, Cross platform development, ApacheCordova

Creating custom blob filter using AForge .NET in UWP Application

As you might already know, AForge is a .NET library for Image Processing. A lot of people prefer using .NET wrapper for OpenCV known as EmguCV, and no doubt it has stronger image processing capabilities. However, being a wrapper, it has its own...

Published Tue, May 24 2016 3:08 PM by Indraneel Pole

Filed under: IoT, UWP, Core.NET, MachineLearning

IoT, Industry 4.0, and Hannover Messe 2016

Trade fairs, typically known as messe in Germany are a great way to push the new technological innovations and present them in front of the world. So when daenet offered me the opportunity to attend world’s largest messe for automation industry...

Published Mon, May 02 2016 5:58 PM by Indraneel Pole

How to disable the auto update on Windows 10 IoT Core?

Windows 10 IoT core has pushing update to its latest OS version once you download the OS version 10.0.10586.0. The update is 10.0.10586.63. However, the device never asks you if you want to download the updates and just re-flashes the card on its...

Published Fri, Apr 22 2016 2:52 PM by Indraneel Pole