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I recently discovered a problem when using WCF in a self-hosted setup that I had never encountered before: I was using the following bindi...

Windows Services are a great way to host WCF, typically in scenarios where on-premise services are a requirement. As Dependency Injection be...

I've recently run into the issue of needing to use multiple modules that happen to contain cmdlets that have the same name in each. Acco...

For starters, see here . For the quick start version, see here: File => Options => Add-ins Check "Active Application Add-in...

Ensure that you have your Earned Value data series all in the same workbook Ensure that the date series' for your Earned Value series...

Select your projects in Windows Explorer, right click => Open  Once all of your projects are loaded into an instance of Microsoft Proj...

A while ago a virtual colleague recommended this article on a forum: https://insimpleterms.blog/2017/08/07/the-tech-leads-new-project-chec...

I don't like using the mouse, but if I have to I will. Here's some tips for quickly cloning items in PowerPoint: Duplicating a s...

I love using hotkeys to execute my tasks because they reduce the number of times my hand has to leave the keyboard and go for the mouse, and...

If you're doing development with bower packages in Visual Studio projects behind a corporate firewall, you may have run into issues with...

Our company uses software to intercept and inspect encrypted packets (like many other corporate entities). As a result, there are self-signe...

There's an undocumented bug in Azure Automation: it does NOT support the Process { } block, i.e. the block that you would use when creat...

If you receive the error: Add-HybridRunbookWorker : Machine is already registered to different account Simply delete the key under: HKEY_L...

Install-Package Moq Install-Package ServiceFabric.Mocks Some key bits of code you'll need: this.mockRepository = new MockReposit...

Check this page out: https://alexmg.com/introducing-the-autofac-integration-for-service-fabric/ Right from the maker of Autofac. You'l...

Turns out that it's pretty easy (for Stateless Services anyway). In your Package Manager Console: Install-Package Autofac.WebApi2 -V...

... is pretty much the same as adding it to a normal Web API 2.0 application: [Authorize] public class ValuesController : ApiController...

I've recently started getting on the Service Fabric band wagon, running in Azure in my case. When you run Service Fabric in Azure (vs on...

After some recent endeavours to add Application Insights alert rules, I stumbled (quite sorely) over some quirks around defining Alert Rules...

Check out the following link to see the complete port list for connecting to an IBM DB2 database instance: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/doc...