Microsoft Word offers us a great feature called “Read Aloud” that I often use to check if I mistakenly wrote a similar but wrong word in my posts. After installing a new computer, that feature was still there but it sounded awful. Instead of the nice realistic voice I am used to, I got a …
We use Seq to find valuable insights in the vast sea of our structured log messages. While the search usually works straightforward without any surprises, this time we run into a minor problem. We wanted to find all log messages where property FieldX did not match a specific value. Therefore, we appended this clause to …
If you spend May 2020 focused on other things than tech news, you may have missed the announcement of the Windows Package Manager. It took me a while to find this little gem and noticed that many developers had no clue either that this tool runs on their Windows 10 and 11 machines. This package …
This year marks a decade since I started to use NDepend to assess the quality of .Net projects. NDepend got much better over the years, and as far as I can tell, it is still the most flexible and versatile tool in this space. After using the current version for the last three months, it …
Last week we run into a strange problem with our integration tests. On some developer machines everything worked fine, while other machines got errors like this one: System.InvalidOperationException : Cannot resolve scoped service ‘my.application.IOrderRepository’ from root provider. at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.CallSiteValidator.ValidateResolution(Type serviceType, IServiceScope scope, IServiceScope rootScope) The problem It took us hours to understand what was …
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 …
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 I run into tasks that I must repeat countless times, I try to automate them as much as possible. Since we always add the same dependencies to our test projects, we thought it would be a great idea to create a project template that has all the necessary settings already in place. Let us …
While updating to Bootstrap 5, I had a few elements that did not look as they should. The Chrome Developer Tools are great to show you all the different styles and where they are from, but if you need to figure out what part exactly is missing, the Developer Tools do not help that much. …
Last week I was in Oslo to attend the NDC conference. I cannot really believe that this was already the 10th NDC Oslo I attended. With 2’600 attendees it was the biggest NDC event ever, but at least for me not the best. Practical Clean Architecture workshop with Jason Taylor I started my NDC …