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My blog of techy stuff, ranging around SQL (SQL Server, that is), C# and .net, JavaScript and a smattering of stuff about the Orchard CMS (that powers my site) as I get more familiar with it. There's the occasional non-technical post when something is of interest to me that I feel is worth sharing, but they should be few and far between
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Setting an O365 user to have no password expiry via PowerShell
If, like me, you're using Office 365 as your email solution you may have encountered the situation where you don't get emails landing from such things as blog comments because the password has …
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Link Dump
Another assortment of links, of interest to me, that may be of interest to you!
The Rough History of MSBuild
This one's here really as a jumping-off point to the other posts in this guys blog. He's …
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The dreaded coding / technical test
I've given, and taken, different flavours of coding/technical "test" which seem to fall into three main buckets
Write some code on a computer
Write some code on a whiteboard
Talk through a …
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Using is instead of == to check whether an object is a null reference
A tweet yesterday by Bertrand Le Roy:
Something in C# I learned today: `if (a is null)` is not just prettier, it's also more robust than `if (a == null)`. thx @MadsTorgersen
— Bertrand Le Roy (@ …
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Putting an "about me" blurb at the bottom of each post
By the time you read this, each of the posts in this blog (and the recipe blog) will come with an "about me" blurb at the bottom of the page, in no particular order, Scott Hanselman has one:
As …
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Top 10 posts for October 2017
I put together the occasional "link dump" post where I drop a series of links that I've had open in tabs that are of interest to me, and that I think may be of interest to others. In a semi-related …
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The simplest ASP.NET Core app that'll serve static content
NOTE: This post is targeting .NET Core / ASP.NET Core 2.0, not 1.x
I have a confession to make, I've not spent much time or energy looking into the ins and outs of .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Entity …
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Link Dump
Another collection of odds and ends, of dubious use to anyone but me, but perhaps of interest!
Proper Dependency injection in Azure Functions on function level with scoped services!
A blog post …
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Loading the "admin" menu on a Core install of Windows Server
This post is mainly (ok, entirely) a reminder to myself that in order to load the "admin menu"
That is available in Windows Server core installs, the command to run is
sconfig
(This post will …
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Storing metadata against Azure Storage Blobs
I've known for a while that you can associate aribitrary metadata with Azure Storage Blobs, docs.microsoft.com has Set and retrieve properties and metadata which gives an example of setting …