Friday, August 31, 2018

Solving NETSDK1061 build errors

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Microsoft has changed a lot in the last 10 years, especially since Satya Nadella took over, and not for the better in many ways. One of the ...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

Project count and name length limitations of the Service Fabric tooling in Visual Studio

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It would seem that I've just stumbled across the practical technical limit to how many services a Service Fabric application can have an...
Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Accessing remoting exceptions and original causes of Exceptions in Service Fabric stateless/stateful services in v3.0+/v6.1+

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The section "Remoting Exception Handling" on this docs.microsoft.com page appears to be the sum and total of the Service Fabric t...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Enabling changes to Default Services within applications during deployment on a Service Fabric cluster

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As it turns out, as of Service Fabric runtime 6.1, allowing applications to change their Default Services during an upgrade is not enabled b...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

Troubleshooting connections to a service running in Service Fabric in Azure

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Recently I decided to try deploying a Service Fabric cluster to Azure and investigate what it takes to create applications with Service Fabr...
Saturday, January 20, 2018

General workflow for publishing an Android app to the Google Play store when developing with VSTS

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Create a Git repository (not TFVC) in VSTS, possibly with a new Team Project, up to you. Create your app in Android Studio and add it to ...
Friday, January 12, 2018

Bootstrapping a VSTS Linux build agent for Docker containers

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1. Create an Ubuntu 17.04 VM in Azure 2. Install dotnetcore using the instructions here . 3. Install the Docker apt-get package using the ...
Tuesday, January 09, 2018

Using Git with a corporate firewall that uses certificate interception

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Like many open source tools (originally or completely) based on Linux, git has issues with self-signed certificates, especially if you work ...
Wednesday, January 03, 2018

Using NodeJS with a corporate firewall that uses certificate interception

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See this post on Stack Overflow . The gist of it: 1. Export your company's corporate Root CA certificate to a Base64 encoded .cer file...
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...