Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Installing Windows 10 IoT Core on a Raspberry Pi 3

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You’ll need the following ingredients: 1. A desktop or laptop computer with Windows 10 installed 2. A Raspberry Pi 3. 3. A Micro-SD card...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

The quick and dirty for using System.Windows.Interactivity and the MVVM pattern for custom dialogs in your WPF application

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So I recently decided to finally try my hand at using proper MVVM patterns with my custom dialogs in the application on which I'm curren...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

A quirk when using Ninject with Self-Hosted WCF services

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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...

Using Ninject in a Self-Hosted environment, e.g. a Windows Service

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Windows Services are a great way to host WCF, typically in scenarios where on-premise services are a requirement. As Dependency Injection be...
Friday, October 13, 2017

Resolving PowerShell cmdlets with conflicting names

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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...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Loading the Solver add-in for Excel so that you can perform graphical analysis of charts

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For starters, see here . For the quick start version, see here: File => Options => Add-ins Check "Active Application Add-in...
Monday, September 25, 2017

How to include multiple Earned Value charts on the same graph

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

How to quickly graph a comparison of projects with PDEx in Excel 2016

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Select your projects in Windows Explorer, right click => Open  Once all of your projects are loaded into an instance of Microsoft Proj...
Saturday, September 16, 2017

The Tech Lead's New Project Checklist, propagated

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A while ago a virtual colleague recommended this article on a forum: https://insimpleterms.blog/2017/08/07/the-tech-leads-new-project-chec...
Wednesday, September 06, 2017

Useful PowerPoint Shit, Part 2 - Cloning objects quickly

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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...

Useful PowerPoint Shit, Part 1 - Copying and Pasting Shape Attributes

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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...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Fixing github access behind a corporate firewall with self-signed certificates

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

Fixing Bower behind a corporate firewall

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Our company uses software to intercept and inspect encrypted packets (like many other corporate entities). As a result, there are self-signe...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

Azure Automation does not support the Process{} block

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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...

Re-adding a Hybrid Runbook Worker to an Automation Account runbook worker group

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If you receive the error: Add-HybridRunbookWorker : Machine is already registered to different account Simply delete the key under: HKEY_L...
Sunday, July 30, 2017

Unit testing Service Fabric Reliable Service and Actors with Mocks and Moqs

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Install-Package Moq Install-Package ServiceFabric.Mocks Some key bits of code you'll need: this.mockRepository = new MockReposit...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Adding Dependency Injection support for Service Fabric Stateful Services and Actors

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

Adding Dependency Injection support for Service Fabric Stateless API applications

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Turns out that it's pretty easy (for Stateless Services anyway). In your Package Manager Console: Install-Package Autofac.WebApi2 -V...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Adding Azure Active Directory OAuth 2.0 authentication to a Service Fabric Web API (Stateless) service

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... is pretty much the same as adding it to a normal Web API 2.0 application: [Authorize] public class ValuesController : ApiController...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

Getting Started with deploying your first Azure Service Fabric resource

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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...