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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A while ago we noticed a performance problem with Seq and the other applications that run on the same server. As it turned out, Seq allocated all the memory and left next to nothing for the other applications. A restart of Seq will only be a temporary solution, for a more durable one we need …
We use AsciiDoc as the format for our documentation for the user group project. AsciiDoc is a bit like Markdown, but it supports multi-file documents out of the box and without any quirks. We use the Ruby app Asciidoctor to turn our AsciiDoc files into a PDF as part of our build job. Since building …
I was a happy user of the Moq library for the last 12 years. I liked the simplicity of Moq and how it allowed me to write tests first and then incrementally build the functionality. Unfortunately, the creator of Moq is currently doing his best to kill the project. As he declared, either his spyware …
As the final post of the series on our .Net 6 migration, we look at our experience of running our new .Net 6 application in production. You can find the other parts of the mini-series here: The Challenging Endeavour of a .Net 6 Migration 10 Unpleasant Surprises When Migrating From .Net 4.8 to .Net 6 …