In this spring cleaning we had to update our last application to .Net 4.8. Unfortunately, the project is rather big: The good news was that the projects are on .Net 4.7.2 and there are no breaking changes. Still, updating 70 projects by hand is nothing I look forward to. Luckily for us, there is a …
We created a new build agent pool for Visual Studio 2022 in Azure DevOps. To check if everything works, we temporarily switched jobs to the new agent pool. That worked for most jobs, but not for all. A few where stubborn and keep running on the old agent pool. How can that be? As it …
Did you ever need to put a table from a web site into an Excel file? If so, you probably used copy & paste and then fixed all the formatting errors and wasted a lot of time. There is another way you may not be aware of: Excel has an import feature to load data …
Synology builds great NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices. For 9 years my DS1512+ worked like a charm. It still works, but since it reached the end of support it is time to move to another device – the DS1618+. The big question I had was how do I move the files from one NAS to …
A few weeks back I run into an annoying state with my remote desktop connection. All I could see was this: There was no Windows taskbar and with that no Start menu. Since this was a production server and everyone else could work, I had to find a solution different than rebooting the server. Disconnecting …
I like Sublime Text 4 as a fast and versatile editor. Unfortunately, I always forget the command to format JSON files. This is mainly because it takes more steps than one single key combination: CTRL + SHIFT + P to open the Command Palette Start to type “pretty”: Select “Pretty JSON: Format JSON” Be aware, …
If you need to copy multiple values from one document to another, you can go and copy & past every value on its own. That works, but there is a better and faster way. Windows 10 comes with a well-hidden clipboard history that you already have on your machine. With this feature you to copy …
Azure DevOps allows you to add multiple Git repositories to the same project. That allows you to set the permissions only once and organise your code as you like. Sooner than later, you try to add a second backlog and that is where things get complicated. This feature is well hidden and easy to overlook. …
At the user group site, we use GitVersion to turn our git history into a Semantic Version number. After we switched to main as the default branch, our build failed with this error message: ERROR [****] An unexpected error occurred: System.InvalidOperationException: Could not find a ‘develop’ or ‘master’ branch, neither locally nor remotely. GitVersion did …
For some posts code is not enough. An animated image that shows the effect of a code snipped helps much more than hundreds words of additional explanation. But how can we create animations like this one I made for the progress bar example? ScreenToGif The little tool ScreenToGif is a great help. You can …