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.
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.
If we want to test our code, we often need files with the right format. We can create a text file without much effort, but what do we do if we need a specific video format or an audio file in OGG?
Luckily, we are not the only ones with this problem. There are dedicated sites that offers a wide range of file formats that we can use for testing.
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 .Net 6 and newer. In this post we explore a user-friendly library that works with .Net 6 and .Net 7.
If we want to find the newest commit that is in our main and in our feature branch, we can use this Git command:
1fe43981b856bkk8958494949494949494493339
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 exception. error : Authentication failed because the remote party sent a TLS alert: 'HandshakeFailure'.
While solving the annoying problem with the *.bacpac files, I was not sure what edition of SQL Server I have installed on my machine. The simplest way to figure out what edition you run is to start SQL Server Management Studio, connect to your SQL Server and right click on the Server node. In the Properties you find an entry for the Product and that shows what edition you use:
With a higher usage of our build agents in Azure DevOps, we run out of disk space twice in the same week. It was now time to find a solution that would declutter our local build agents.
The last time I searched for a solution I could not find anything that would allow me to clean up the working directory of a build agent without creating a solution by myself. Luckily, Microsoft listened to the countless complaints and created a solution directly in the build agent pool of Azure DevOps.
SQL Server Management Studio may not include all important parts of your table when you let it write the CREATE TABLE script. For instance, the full-text index for a table is omitted by default. If you use the full-text search feature, you should make sure that SQL Server Management Studio includes them in the create scripts. You can change the behaviour with these steps:
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: