Sunday, May 31, 2015

Getting access to roles and group claims in Azure AD using the Graph API

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Check this link out. It contains a tutorial on how to get Roles and Groups in Azure AD, so that you can have a single code-base for checkin...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Implementing delegated authentication from an Azure MVC web app to an Azure Web API web service

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Follow the information on this tutorial . Contained within that link, is this tutorial on authenticating a web app with delegated user iden...

Authenticating users on an Azure web site (MVC) using Azure Active Directory (AAD)

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Follow this guide provided on Github . It provides all of the information you need to enable the simplest form of Azure AD authentication in...
Monday, May 18, 2015

Creating an Intranet MVC 5 application using Windows Authentication that connects to a separate Intranet Web API 2 application also using Windows Authentication

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Recently I wanted to create an Intranet MVC application using Windows Authentication that connects to a separate, pre-existing Intranet Web ...
Monday, April 27, 2015

A little gotcha with the Microsoft Task Parallel Library (TPL) Dataflow library

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I've recently started using the Microsoft TPL Dataflow library in order to help improve the performance of some of our product's sch...
Wednesday, April 08, 2015

Resolving "Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel with authority 'localhost'" in IIS with WCF web services

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If you get an error that looks like "Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel with authority 'localhos...

Removing a certificate binding from a port in Windows

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As many people don't know, in Windows certificates can be bound to ports for securing content transferred over those ports. IIS happens ...
Friday, March 20, 2015

Creating ChannelFactory instances that are configured with Custom credentials in WCF

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Check this out: Setting Client Credentials I just discovered this wonderful piece of information on how to properly create ChannelFactory ...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

Using Ninject in an IIS-hosted environment to create a WCF service instance that's in a shared assembly (i.e. not the web application assembly)

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Recently I wanted to create several WCF services for some of our internal applications and host these services in multiple different servers...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Resolving "The agent process was stopped while the test was running" on a TFS build agent

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I'm currently working on a project that uses TFS for automated builds. Recently, our builds started failing with the error "The age...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Implementing a WCF service on an Active Directory domain using a ServiceHost in a Windows Service with Windows authentication and a non-system user service account

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So, as it turns out, when you want to implement a WCF service on an Active Directory domain using a ServiceHost in a Windows Service with Wi...

Adding files generated at build time to your ClickOnce deployment

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So, it used to be that I didn't really like ClickOnce deployment, but it turns out it has a lot of benefits: It provides infrastructu...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Querying XML with namespaces in PowerShell

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Apparently it's ridiculously easy to parse XML in PowerShell once you have the right objects set up: [xml] $xml = Get-Content .\Deplo...

Implementing Code Analysis with Team Foundation Server 2012 and later

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I've been looking to get Code Analysis going on our team project at work. I found this helpful MSDN article .

Adding a computer to the local machine's list of PowerShell TrustedHosts

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Retrieve the current list: $curValue = (get-item wsman:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts).value Set the new list, appending the new host on...
Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Things I've learned (forcibly) on 2014-12-09

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There are database systems that are actually implemented using the Julian (sort of) calendar. Why ?! It is perfectly legitimate to use sc...
Saturday, December 06, 2014

Adding less to your MVC 5 project

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I'm going to have to just redirect to this post , because I'm in a rush. Hopefully it's still around when you read this. Note:...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Creating Azure Services with Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 8.1

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Download and install Visual Studio 2013 Download and install the Web Platform Installer, v5.0 or greater From the Web Platform Installer...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Correcting the default check-in action for associated work items in Team Foundation Server

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I've found that it's a giant pain in the ass in TFS when associating work items to checkins because the default assocation action is...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Regarding pre-test invocation scripts when deploying to a Test Agent with TFS

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So, I learned something interesting about TFS Test Agents today and they way they handle pre-test invocation scripts when running tests on a...