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How to convert .crt & .key files to a .pfx

The requirements are simple: You will need the .cer with the corresponding .key file and need to download OpenSSL. If you are using Windows without the awesome Linux Subsystem, take the latest pre-compiled version for Windows from this site Otherwise with Bash on Windows you can just use OpenSSL via its “native” environment. Thanks for the hint @kapsiR After the download run this ...

01.08.2017 | 181 2 | Code-Inside Blog

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Non-cryptographic hash functions for .NET

Creating hashs is quite common to check if content X has changed without looking at the whole content of X. Git for example uses SHA1-hashs for each commit. SHA1 itself is a pretty old cryptographic hash function, but in the case of Git there might have been better alternatives available, because the “to-be-hashed” content is not crypto relevant - it’s just content marker. Well… in ...

30.06.2017 | 74 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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Using Visual Studio Code & Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC)

Recently we start working on a Angular 4 app but all other parts of the application (e.g. the backend stuff) were stored in a good old TFVC based repository (inside a Team Foundation Server 2015) . Unfortunately building an Angular app with the full blown Visual Studio with the “default” Team Explorer workflow is not really practical. Another point for using Visual Studio Code was ...

30.05.2017 | 92 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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.NET CultureInfo in Windows 10

Did you know that the CultureInfo behavior with “unkown” cultures has changed with Windows 10? I stumbled two times about this “problem” - so this is enough to write a short blogpost about it. Demo Code Lets use this democode: try { // ok on Win10, but not on pre Win10 if culture is not registred CultureInfo culture1 new CultureInfo("foo"); CultureInfo culture2 new ...

24.04.2017 | 287 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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How we moved to Visual Studio 2017

Visual Studio 2017 has arrived and because of .NET Core and other goodies we wanted to switch fast to the newest release with our product OneOffixx. Company & Product Environment In our solution we use some VC projects (just for Office Development & building a .NET shim), Windows Installer XML & many C# projects for desktop or ASP.NET stuff. Our builds are scripted with CAKE (see ...

28.03.2017 | 152 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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HowTo: Get User Information & Group Memberships from Active Directory via C#

I had to find a way to access all group memberships from a given Active Directory user. The problem here is, that groups may contain other groups and I needed a list of “all” applied group memberships - directly or indirectly. The “fastest” solution (without querying each group) is to use the Token-Groups attribute, which already does this magic for us. This list should contain all ...

03.03.2017 | 105 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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HowTo: Get User Information & Group Memberships from Active Directory via C#

I had to find a way to access all group memberships from a given Active Directory user. The problem here is, that groups may contain other groups and I needed a list of “all” applied group memberships - directly or indirectly. The “fastest” solution (without querying each group) is to use the Token-Groups attribute, which already does this magic for us. This list should contain all ...

03.03.2017 | 130 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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Create NuGet packages with Cake

This blogpost is a follow up to these Cake (C# Make) related blogpost: Building with Cake Build & run xUnit tests with Cake Scenario Let’s say we have this project structure. The “Config”, “Result” and “Engine” projects contains a corresponding .nuspec, like this: ?xml version "1.0"? package metadata id Sloader.Config /id version version /version title Sloader.Config /title ...

14.02.2017 | 323 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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Build & run xUnit tests with Cake

Last year I already covered the basic usage of Cake, which stands for “C# Make”. This time we want to build and run xUnit tests with Cake. Scenario Let’s say we have this project structure. Be aware that all our tests have the suffix “Tests” in the project name. The files are organized like this, so we have all “Tests” in a “tests” folder and the actual code under “src”: ...

08.02.2017 | 246 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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GitHub API: Create or update files

This blogpost covers a pretty basic GitHub topic: Creating and updating content on GitHub. Of course, there are many ways to do it - e.g. you could do the full Git-ceremony and it would work with all Git hosts, but in my case I just wanted to target the offical GitHub API. Prerequisite: A GitHub User, Repo and Token To use this code you will need write access to a GitHub repository and you ...

03.01.2017 | 226 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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DbProviderFactories: Write database agnostic ADO.NET code

Recently I needed to write a module that needs to connect to a wide range of SQL-DBs, e.g. MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle etc. Problem: Most providers will use their concret classes If you look at the C# example on the MySQL dev page you will see the MsSql-Namespace and classes: MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlConnection conn; string myConnectionString; myConnectionString "server ...

31.12.2016 | 770 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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Enable SSL with custom domains on GitHub Pages via Cloudflare

Two weeks ago I decided (finally!) that I should enable SSL on this blog. Problem: GitHub Pages with a custom domain This blog is hosted on GitHub Pages with a custom domain, which currently doesn’t support SSL out of the box. If you stick with a github.io domain SSL is not a problem. Cloudflare to the rescure I decided to take a deeper look at Cloudflare, which provides DNS, CDN and ...

15.11.2016 | 229 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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Writing loops in T-SQL

The topic is quite old, but I found it really helpful, so be warned. Scenario: Iterate over a result set and insert it in a new table in T-SQL I had to write a SQL migration script to move date from an old table into a new table with a new primary key. Update! I discovered that my problem would have been solved with a much simpler SQL script (INSERT INTO x …(SELECT … FROM Y)). So my example here ...

31.10.2016 | 262 1 | Code-Inside Blog

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Writing loops in T-SQL

The topic is quite old, but I found it really helpful, so be warned. Scenario: Iterate over a result set and insert it in a new table in T-SQL I had to write a SQL migration script to move date from an old table into a new table with a new primary key. Update! I discovered that my problem would have been solved with a much simpler SQL script (INSERT INTO x …(SELECT … FROM Y)). So my example here ...

31.10.2016 | 189 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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Lets convert a WPF app to the Universal Windows Platform

Project Centennial - running desktop apps in the UWP world Last year Microsoft revealed the plans to run and distribute desktop apps (basically all apps ever written for Windows) in the Universal-Windows-Platform “universe”. The project titel was “Project Centennial” and a year later the tooling seems to be ok-ish. So, let’s try something simple and convert a simple WPF app to ...

01.10.2016 | 189 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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Lets convert a WPF app to the Universal Windows Platform

Project Centennial - running desktop apps in the UWP world Last year Microsoft revealed the plans to run and distribute desktop apps (basically all apps ever written for Windows) in the Universal-Windows-Platform “universe”. The project titel was “Project Centennial” and a year later the tooling seems to be ok-ish. So, let’s try something simple and convert a simple WPF app to ...

01.10.2016 | 284 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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TFS 2015: Adding a new Windows Build Agent

The TFS 2015 Build System The build system before TFS 2015 was based on a pretty arcane XAML workflow engine which was manageable, but not fun to use. With TFS 2015 a new build system was implemented, which behave pretty much the same way as other build systems (e.g. TeamCity or AppVeyor). The “build workflow” is based on a simple “task”-concept. There are many related topics in the ...

11.08.2016 | 360 1 | Code-Inside Blog

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TFS 2015: Adding a new Windows Build Agent

The TFS 2015 Build System The build system before TFS 2015 was based on a pretty arcane XAML workflow engine which was manageable, but not fun to use. With TFS 2015 a new build system was implemented, which behave pretty much the same way as other build systems (e.g. TeamCity or AppVeyor). The “build workflow” is based on a simple “task”-concept. There are many related topics in the ...

11.08.2016 | 195 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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CAKE: Building solutions with C# & Roslyn

CAKE - C# Make A DSL for build tasks (e.g. build following projects, copy stuff, deploy stuff etc.) It’s just C# code that gets compiled via Roslyn Active community, OSS & written in C# You can get CAKE via NuGet Before we begin you might want to check out the actual website of CAKE Cross Platform support Our goal: Building, running tests, package NuGet Packages etc. Related: MSBuild ...

09.07.2016 | 185 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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CAKE: Building solutions with C# & Roslyn

x CAKE - C# Make A DSL for build tasks (e.g. build following projects, copy stuff, deploy stuff etc.) It’s just C# code that gets compiled via Roslyn Active community, OSS & written in C# You can get CAKE via NuGet Before we begin you might want to check out the actual website of CAKE Cross Platform support Our goal: Building, running tests, package NuGet Packages etc. Related: MSBuild ...

09.07.2016 | 368 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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FAKE: Build ASP.NET projects with web.config transformation (and without knowing a tiny bit of F#)

This is a follow-up to my other FAKE posts: “FAKE: Building C# projects without knowing a tiny bit of F#” “FAKE: Running xUnit Tests with FAKE without knowing a tiny bit of F#” “FAKE: Create NuGet Packages without knowing a tiny bit of F#” “FAKE: Running MSTest Tests with FAKE without knowing a tiny bit of F#” What’s the difference between a ASP.NET and other projects? The most obvious ...

12.06.2016 | 395 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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FAKE: Build ASP.NET projects with web.config transformation (and without knowing a tiny bit of F#)

This is a follow-up to my other FAKE posts: “FAKE: Building C# projects without knowing a tiny bit of F#” “FAKE: Running xUnit Tests with FAKE without knowing a tiny bit of F#” “FAKE: Create NuGet Packages without knowing a tiny bit of F#” “FAKE: Running MSTest Tests with FAKE without knowing a tiny bit of F#” What’s the difference between a ASP.NET and other projects? The most obvious ...

12.06.2016 | 149 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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Copy to clipboard with Javascript

Clipboard? Current state of the art… I think everybody knows the clipboard. The goal is that we can store text inside the users clipboard, so he can just paste it. Most sites uses either Flash or some sort of mini-popup with a pre-selected text inside a textarea. Both ways are not super user friendly and Flash is definitely done. Clipboard API? Currently there are some draft specs for ...

13.05.2016 | 225 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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Copy to clipboard with Javascript

Clipboard? Current state of the art… I think everybody knows the clipboard. The goal is that we can store text inside the users clipboard, so he can just paste it. Most sites uses either Flash or some sort of mini-popup with a pre-selected text inside a textarea. Both ways are not super user friendly and Flash is definitely done. Clipboard API? Currently there are some draft specs for ...

13.05.2016 | 469 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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Get the Windows 10 or 8 accent color in WPF

. Windows Accent Color Since Windows 8 users can choose a system accent color. The color can be seen on the window borders of the default apps and it can be pretty easy be used inside a UWP App. How to get the accent color in WPF? Option 1: SystemParameters.WindowGlassBrush - not 100% the same color As far as I know there are several ways to get the color code, one easy but not 100% correct ...