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Microsoft Build 2021 session recommendations
To be fair: Microsoft Build 2021 was some month ago, but the content might still be relevant today. Sooo… it took me a while, but here is a list of sessions that I found interesting. Some sessions are...
View ArticleSQL collation problems
This week I deployed a new feature and tried it on different SQL databases and was a bit suprised that on one database this error message came up:Cannot resolve the collation conflict between...
View ArticleSelect random rows
Let’s say we have a SQL table and want to retrieve 10 rows randomly - how would you do that? Although I have been working with SQL for x years, I have never encountered that problem. The solution...
View ArticleRedirect to HTTPS with a simple web.config rule
The scenario is easy: My website is hosted in an IIS and would like to redirect all incomming HTTP traffic to the HTTPS counterpart.This is your solution - a “simple” rule:<?xml version="1.0"...
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How to use IE proxy settings with HttpClient
Internet Explorer is - mostly - dead, but some weird settings are still around and “attached” to the old world, at least on Windows 10. If your system administrator uses some advanced proxy settings...
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How to run a Azure App Service WebJob with parameters
We are using WebJobs in our Azure App Service deployment and they are pretty “easy” for the most part. Just register a WebJobs or deploy your .exe/.bat/.ps1/... under the...
View ArticleWhich .NET Framework Version is installed on my machine?
If you need to know which .NET Framework Version (the “legacy” .NET Framework) is installed on your machine try this handy...
View Article'error MSB8011: Failed to register output.' & UTF8-BOM files
Be aware: I’m not a C++ developer and this might be an “obvious” problem, but it took me a while to resolve this issue.In our product we have very few C++ projects. We use these projects for very...
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Azure DevOps & Azure Service Connection
Today I needed to setup a new release pipeline on our Azure DevOps Server installation to deploy some stuff automatically to Azure. The UI (at least on the Azure DevOps Server 2020 (!)) is not really...
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SQLLocalDb update
Short IntroSqlLocalDb is a “developer” SQL server, without the “full” SQL Server (Express) installation. If you just develop on your machine and don’t want to run a “full blown” SQL Server, this is the...
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Your URL is flagged as malware/phishing, now what?
ProblemOn my last day in 2022 - Friday, 23. December, I received a support ticket from one customer, that our software seems to be offline and it looks like that our servers are not responding. I...
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Use ASP.NET Core & React togehter
The ASP.NET Core React templateVisual Studio (at least VS 2019 and the newer 2022) ships with a ASP.NET Core React template, which is “ok-ish”, but has some really bad problems:The React part of this...
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Use ASP.NET Core and React with Vite.js
The CRA ProblemIn my previous post I showed a simple setup with ASP.NET Core & React. The React part was created with the “CRA”-Tooling, which is kind of problematic. The “new” state of the art...
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Azure DevOps Server 2022 Update
Azure DevOps Server 2022 - OnPrem?Yes I know - you can get everything from the cloud nowadays, but we are still using our OnPrem hardware and were running the “old” Azure DevOps Server 2020. The _Azure...
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Resource type is not supported in this subscription
I was playing around with some Visual Studio Tooling and noticed this error during the creation of a “Azure Container Apps”-app:Resource type is not supported in this subscriptionSolutionThe solution...
View ArticleHow to fix: 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0' provider is not registered on the...
In our product we can interact with different datasource and one of these datasources was a Microsoft Access DB connected via OLEDB. This is really, really old, but still works, but on one customer...
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First steps with Azure OpenAI and .NET
The AI world is rising very fast these days: ChatGPT is such an awesome (and scary good?) service and Microsoft joined the ship with some partner announcements and investments. The result is of these...
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Zip deployment failed on Azure
The ProblemWe are using Azure App Service for our application (which runs great BTW) and deploy it automatically via ZipDeploy. This basic setup was running smoth, but we noticed that at some point the...
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Limit Active Directory property access
Be aware: I’m not a full time administrator and this post might sound stupid to you.The ProblemWe access certain Active Directory properties with our application and on one customer domain we couldn’t...
View Article.NET ('.NET Core') and Proxy Settings
If your .NET (“.NET Core”) program is running on a system that specifies strict proxy settings, you must either handle these settings in your application itself or use these environment variables.Since...
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