a developer's notebook
Sometimes you may need to run Visual Studio as Administrator; to do so, you have to right-click on Visual Studio task bar shortcut, right-click again on Visual Studio and select Run as Administrator. Then, you may open the solution you want manually from File -> Open -> Project/Solution or drop your .sln file onto Visual Studio. To make your life easier, you…
On Windows 10 while trying to start or connect to a VM, on Hyper-V, you might come to the following error: As you are sure that Intel-VTx and DEP is enabled in the BIOS and you verify it through Task Manager you still don’t know what’s the problem. As it turns out to fix the issue you need to run the…
C# 7.0 adds a number of new features and brings the focus on data consumption, code simplification and performance. Perhaps the most interesting feature is tuples, a finite ordered list of values, of possibly different types, which is used to bundle related values together without having to create a specific type to hold them. Tuples are very good for performance reasons, as you don’t…
Build 2017 is over. A three-day conference, where a lot of great stuff was announced. Apart from the keynotes of every day, there are many technical sessions to watch and learn from. The whole list of sessions is available at Channel 9. Here you may find my picks from the categories I am interested in. Azure Related Visual Studio &…
When starting playing with Service Fabric in Visual Studio, you may come to the following error when trying to debug your application: System.Fabric.FabricConnectionDeniedException: 'Not authorized to connect' Inner Exception COMException: Exception from HRESULT: 0x80071C43 The error although may look tricky, is very easy to fix and happens when you have created a Service Fabric application and accidentally Set as Startup Project the Fabric…
A great tool, when starting learning Elixir, is Elixir’s Interactive Shell (IEx), which allows you to type any Elixir expression and get its result. To start using IEx, open a terminal of your choice and type iex (or iex.bat if you are on Windows), which stands for Interactive Elixir. By default, colors are not enabled and iex looks like what you see below: It turns out…
To keep things tidy, in case you have multiple subscriptions associated with your Azure account, it’s a good practice to name them in a way that makes sense to you. For example, if you have an msdn subscription, the default name in Azure Portal is “Visual Studio Enterprise“, or if you have applied for a Visual Studio Dev Essentials program, the default name is “Developer Program…
Azure App service provides an easy way to track your web app’s availability / health and to get details on when and why your app wasn’t available. This kind of info is available through the web app’s blade, when selecting Diagnose and solve problems A new page appears with details on: app’s availability; requests per 5 minutes; and when and why your app…
IEx is Elixir’s interactive shell, where you can type any Elixir expressions and get its result. One issue you might come across when trying to use iex in Powershell, through a command e.g. iex -S mix, you might get the following error: Invoke-Expression : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'S'. At line:1 char:5 + iex -S mix + ~~…
Some really easy ways to improve performance in your asp.net core web application are: response caching, which adds cache-related headers to responses, to reduce the number of requests a client makes to your web server; compressing response using gzip to reduce its size. You may start with the default asp.net core web application, apply the above steps and check the result. Setup…
