a developer's notebook
In Windows when you want to copy the path for your folder you click on the address bar and simply copy-paste the address path, but in Finder- in your Mac- you don’t have that option. So how you do that then? The process is very simple and is going to be described in the next few steps. Launch Automator Create Service…
There are some scenarios where you might want to reinstall nuget packages in your projects, like for example: Project Retargeting or Upgrade This can be useful when a project has been retargeted or upgraded and if the package REQUIRES reinstallation due to the change in target framework. You Broke the Project In case, you have inadvertently modified contents installed from a…
Today I feel quite relieved. Yesterday I organized my first big event, Athens Azure Bootcamp 2016, part of a much larger event called Global Azure Bootcamp 2016, with the help of a very good friend of mine, Kostas Pantos. What is the Global Azure Bootcamp? In short, it’s a one-day deep dive class into Azure, the objective of which is to help…
A MIME type is a two-part identifier for file formats and format contents transmitted on the Internet. It consists of a type, a sub-type and optional parameters. When publishing a new website in Azure WebSites, you may find out that not all file types can be served without some prior configuration. For example, if your site needs to serve custom fonts, either for icons…
Windows PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language, built on the .NET Framework. You can search for it, using Windows Search, but probably you already have it installed on your computer. On top of the standard command-line shell, you can also find the Windows PowerShell ISE, which…
In Azure portal, if your account contributes to other azure subscriptions, you are allowed to switch from one to another using a drop-down menu at the top left corner. Problem is that by default the name used in Azure Active Directory is “Default Directory” which seems a little confusing. In order to change it to something more meaningful you can use the old windows azure portal,…
These are some quick notes on how to configure an SQL Server to Listen on a Specific TCP port. Open Run Command line and type: SQLServerManager12.msc for SQL Server 2014 SQLServerManager11.msc for SQL Server 2012 SQLServerManager10.msc for SQL Server 2008 and press Enter. To assign a TCP/IP port number to the SQL Server Database Engine In SQL Server Configuration Manager, in the console…
When you launch a web project in Visual Studio, by default is uses the 32-bit version of IIS Express. To change that you can enable the 64-bit version through Options. So, head to:
In Windows 10 Quick Access may happen to stop working properly and when you try to add a new entry, you can come the following message: The docfile has been corrupted In order to fix it you can open Command Line and execute the following: del %appdata%\microsoft\windows\recent\automaticdestinations\* Or in your Windows Explorer you can go to %appdata%\microsoft\windows\recent\automaticdestinations and delete its content.
In Azure all hosted sites have URL Rewrite and ARR (Application Request Routing) modules installed but the proxy functionality is disabled by default in ARR. So, when you create a simple rewrite rule like the one that follows: <rewrite> <rules> <rule name="ProxyAdmin" stopProcessing="true"> <match url="backend/api(.*)" /> <action type="Rewrite" url="http://api.yourdomain.com/api/{R:1}" logRewrittenUrl="false" /> </rule> </rules> </rewrite> where, for example all the requests like http://www.yourdomain.com/backend/api/… should be served…
