A few days back I lost my admin credentials to the Seq server on my development machine. Luckily, there is an easy way to reset those credentials and keep all your data. Open a terminal window as an administrator and enter these 3 commands:
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seq stop seq auth reset -u admin -p ADMINADMIN seq start |
This will stop Seq, reset the admin password to ADMINADMIN …
In this post we explore 3 helpful ways to figure out what went wrong if Playwright cannot find the elements we are looking for. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts of this series here. You find the code for this post in my PythonFriday repository …
A few weeks ago, one of our Windows Server made a reboot in the middle of the day. That was not planned, so we wanted to know what happened. Windows logs events like the reboot in the event log. The challenge is to find the right message in the huge pile of unrelated log messages. …
Visual Studio 16.9 introduced a bug that prevents us from debugging T4 templates. The debugger rushes to the end of the template and fails with this message: FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.Validation, Version=16.8.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’ or one of its dependencies. The located assembly’s manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception …
Last week I run into the strangest problem with Azure DevOps since we started using it in 2015. From one day to the next, one of our local build servers took massively more time to do its work. Build steps that took 30 seconds now run for 10 minutes, some even for more than an …
A few days ago, I got an email about problems with comments on this blog. When you tried to post a comment you only got this error message: Forbidden You don’t have permission to access /wp-comments-post.php on this server. If you search for this error for WordPress, you get plenty of answers. However, most of …
The SSMS Tools Pack created by Mladen Prajdić is a great extension for the SQL Server Management Studio. In this post I will explain how you can use it to create test data from a small subset of your production database. From a bug in production… Bugs happen, especially when complex data is involved. …
Consistency is an important part of data storage. That is why READ COMMITTED is the default transaction isolation level in SQL Server. This level prevents you from retrieving values that modified inside a transaction but not committed. However, what is great for consistency is a pain for debugging. Let us assume you have an integration …
If you ever debugged code that had a list, you wished you could see more than the namespace and class name for the elements in that list. Today we look at one of my favourite features of OzCode to solve exactly that problem. This feature is called Reveal and is easily overlooked. Your lists normally …
A good testing strategy may reduce your bugs tremendously. However, some bugs may still slip through and can only be found on your production environment. Today we look at a great feature of OzCode to isolate problematic data to use it in regression tests. Let’s imagine you got a bug report, verified that the bug …