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dnSpy - a OSS IL decompiler and debugger

My colleague was fighting against a nasty bug, that only occures on one machine. Unfortunatly this machine was not a development machine (no VS installed) and we didn’t want to mess with VS remote debugging, because (AFAIK) his would need some additional setup but we were not allowed to install anything. Soooo… he searched around and found this: dnSpy - a .NET assembly editor, ...

01.10.2017 | 42 1 | Code-Inside Blog

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IdentityServer3 with WindowsAuthentication with ASP.NET WebApi & ASP.NET & WPF App

Please note: In my sample and in this blogpost I cover IdentityServer 3, because last year when I was working on the sample and our real implementation IdentityServer4 (a rewrite of IdentityServer 3) was in beta. My guess is, that most stuff should still apply even if you are using IdentityServer4, but I didn’t test it. Also: I’m not a security expert - this might be all wrong, but ...

31.08.2017 | 187 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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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 | 504 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 | 98 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 | 126 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 | 333 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 | 180 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 | 137 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 | 163 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 | 415 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 | 311 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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Leichtgewichtige Präsentationen erstellen

Ich musste eine Präsentation erstellen und wusste, dass ich auf dem Präsentationsrechner, kein Office installiert habe. Ich wollte dort auch nichts installieren. Zudem wollte ich von unterschiedlichen Locations und Geräten an der Präsentation arbeiten. Nun ja, wollte nicht, musste. Also suchte ich nach einer Lösung und habe sie gefunden. GitHub Markdown GitPitch ...

16.01.2017 | 194 0 | Norbert Eder

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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 | 273 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 | 840 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 | 274 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 | 304 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 | 229 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 | 243 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 | 337 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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Wir ziehen um!!

Die Codefest Seite hat uns über viele Jahre begleitet und ist uns richtig ans Herz gewachsen. Irgendwann wird es dann aber doch Zeit für einen Tapetenwechsel. Daher: Adieu Blogengine .NET! Hello Wordpess!! Unsere neue Adresse wird die alte sein. Derzeit haben wir allerdings noch einen Parallelbetrieb. Bis daher der redirect eingerichtet ist und die automatische ...

22.09.2016 | 340 0 | CodeFest.at

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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 | 394 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 | 220 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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Monaco Editor in eigene Apps integrieren

Visual Studio Code verwendet ihn. Und man kann ihn auch selbst in eigenen Projekten verwenden: Den unglaublich coolen Monaco-Editor! Dieser Editor ist ein browser-basierter Code Editor, mit IntelliSense für JavaScript, JSON, HTML, CSS, Less, Sass, C# und TypeScript Support und vielem mehr. Und er kann in eigenen Web-Apps verwendet werden. Eine detaillierte Beschreibung ...

31.07.2016 | 363 0 | CodeFest.at

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Visual Studio Code den Run-Button für Websites beibringen

Visual Studio Code ist eine feine Sache. Das kostenlose Entwicklungssystem für Windows, OS X und Linux ist unter https://code.visualstudio.com/ downloadbar und stellt neben einem sehr leistungsfähigen Editor mit IntelliSense und Debugging, Git-Support und Extensions auch Runtimes für Node.js, .NET Core, Unity und Office bereit. Apropos Runtime: Wie sieht es mit ...

25.07.2016 | 387 0 | CodeFest.at

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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 ...