Wednesday, August 03, 2016

WADK Deployment Tools on Windows Server 2008 giving error "The program can't start because api-ms-win-downlevel-advapi32-l4-1-0.dll is missing from your system"

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Got this error at an extremely inconvenient time when trying to write some automation scripts for Windows Optional Features using the DISM m...
Tuesday, August 02, 2016

MSDeploy: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.

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Our company has started deploying all of its numerous web applications via automated (or at least scripted) deployment with MSDeploy. This h...
Sunday, July 24, 2016

Managing MSMQ through PowerShell

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There's a module for that! Import-Module MSMQ See the page on MSDN .

Creating an MSMQ queue administratively through the Windows Control Panel

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To create a message queue In the Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management. Expand Se...

Enabling MSMQ in Windows via PowerShell

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First, let's start off by seeing which Windows features for MSMQ are available in your installation: Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Onlin...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Configuration a web application for Application Warmup in IIS

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Further to one of my previous blog posts about how to configure an ASP.NET web application for Application Initialization (warmup), here...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Building a developer test lab with Test Controllers and Agents in VSTS

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Microsoft has recently released their DevTest Lab resources to production in Azure. This great functionality can let you quickly build up a ...
Saturday, June 25, 2016

Forcing addition of the "this" keyword with ReSharper

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I hate using underscores for representing members of a type. It's idiotic. If you need a prefix to distinguish your local variables from...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

PowerShell script to execute an Entity Framework Migration

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I got sick and tired of coming up with hacks for including Entity Framework migrations as part of my deployment processes, so I came up with...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Using the OAuth 2.0 configuration of HTTP Client Connectors with Dell Boomi (useful for Azure PaaS Web Applications that use Azure AD)

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My company recently started using Dell's Boomi platform to connect to some of our PaaS applications running in Azure that use Azure Acti...
Friday, June 03, 2016

Implementing Application Warmup with IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2

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In order to be able to support certain features of some of our applications, we've found the need to enable application warmup. However,...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

Troubleshooting the dreaded "The build directory of the test run either does not exist or access permission is required." error message in Microsoft Test Manager

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Our company is starting to use the Microsoft Test Manager a lot more to manage our testing, both manual and automated. Additionally, we'...
Monday, May 02, 2016

Migrating code in TFS from one Team Project to another Team Project within the same Team Project Collection

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My company has frequently had the issue of moving code around within the same Team Project Collection as shifting desires and motivations fo...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'https://localhost:xxxxx' is therefore not allowed access

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While developing an adal.js app with OData in IISExpress, I'm getting the following error: Response to preflight request doesn't p...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Using ADAL.js correctly with AngularJS when setting up your endpoints

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When searching around and using the tutorials on how to correctly use adal.js to authenticate your calls to Web API (or anything else) in Az...
Monday, April 04, 2016

Creating your own repository for PowerShell modules

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Apparently it's quite easy, according to Microsoft . All you need is a slightly tweaked NuGet repository.
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Running and debugging Azure WebJobs locally on your development machine

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Check out this article:  https://github.com/Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk/wiki/Running-Locally It shows you how to locally run and debug Azure W...

Updating your Azure AD Application Manifest

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We've recently found that as we develop more applications in Azure, we need to put safeguards on the deployment of the applications to e...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Properly invoking scheduled WebJobs

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Recently we've found the need to start using Scheduled Azure WebJobs. However, the examples out there are all gargbage, even in the case...

Continuous Delivery of Azure Web Services

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See this: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-dotnet-continuous-delivery/