After 6 years it is time for an update of my tool list. At first, I thought that there are not that many changes, but after reinstalling my laptop I noticed that there are a few new entries that I would not want to miss. Do you know a tool that is not on this …
If you frequently export the same but updated data from SQL Server to a CSV file, you can automate that task with sqlcmd. The sqlcmd tool is part of SQL Server and offers us various options to customise the export to our needs. If sqlcmd is not already on your system, you can install it …
We needed a simple solution to run recurring jobs for our user group web site. WebJobs in Azure sounded like the perfect solution, but unfortunately they do not work with App Services on Linux. We needed another approach and we found a much better solution with Background Tasks. All we need to do is to …
If you need an API endpoint that gives you some (static) test data, you can join the search for the most complicated solution. My current favourite in unnecessary complexity is to use MongoDB to serve a handful of JSON objects. However, if you prefer a much lighter approach and already use .Net, I strongly recommend …
Since I wrote about how to migrate from Moq to NSubstitute, we decided to migrate our work projects as well. The migration was much simpler than anticipated and we got some nice benefits along the way. Search and replace We did the largest part of the migration with search & replace in Visual Studio. …
Do you like coding puzzles? If so, you should go to AdventOfCode.com and prepare yourself for some funny little coding challenges. Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. As usual, the Advent …
QR codes are a nice way to supply your users with an URL without letting them type it into their mobile devices. All they need to do is to point their camera to the QR code and scan it. There are many libraries to create QR codes with .Net. Unfortunately, not all are working with …
If we want to find the newest commit that is in our main and in our feature branch, we can use this Git command:
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git merge-base feature main |
1fe43981b856bkk8958494949494949494493339 This gives us the hash of the commit that is in both branches (in my example 1f439***). We can then see the details of that commit with git log: …
We run into a strange error last week when we no longer could install NuGet packages from our Azure DevOps feed. Visual Studio only gave us a basic error message about SSL connections, but to get some details we needed to run dotnet restore: error : The SSL connection could not be established, see inner …
If you cannot restore your NuGet files because of a missing entry for NuGet.org or any other problem, open the root folder of your project and run this command:
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dotnet new nugetconfig |
This will create a new nuget.config file with this content:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <configuration> <packageSources> <!--To inherit the global NuGet package sources remove the <clear/> line below --> <clear /> <add key="nuget" value="https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json" /> </packageSources> </configuration> |
From here on, you can add your additional feeds and Visual Studio should recover …