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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 | 165 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 | 72 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 | 90 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 | 284 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 | 149 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 | 102 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 | 128 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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Create NuGet packages with Cake

... NuGetPack("./src/Sloader.Engine/Sloader.Engine.csproj", nuGetPackSettings); }); Easy, right? The most interesting part here is the NuGetPack command. Before we invoke this command we need to make sure that we b uild the last recent version - to enforce that we just rebuild each project in release mode. Result The console output should make the flow pretty clear: PS ...

14.02.2017 | 318 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 | 242 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 | 222 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 | 765 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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Enable SSL with custom domains on GitHub Pages via Cloudflare

... (AFAIK you can also use your own cert if you need) A CDN cache DDOS protection “Analytics” Be aware: This is just the free plan. And everything is pretty easy to manage via the web interface. Setup The first step is to register at Cloudflare & setup your domain. After the first step you need to change the name server for your domain to Cloudflares server. All your domain belonging can now ...

15.11.2016 | 224 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 | 257 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 | 185 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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TypeScript 2.0: Neuheiten und erweiterte Features

... Datenkapselung oder das Geheimnisprinzip können nun noch intensiver in Web -Applikationen umgesetzt werden. Des Weiteren dürfte die Einführung des strictNullChecks-Flags besonders bei ... in TypeScript eine Erleichterung hinsichtlich Strukturierung großer und komplexer Web -(Enterprise-)Applikationen. Egal welche Einstellung nun überwiegen mag – die Wahrheit liegt ...

12.10.2016 | 351 0 | SDX Flurfunk

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Lets convert a WPF app to the Universal Windows Platform

... I also added a couple of dummy store images (from the default UWP app project template) - my solution looks like this: x When we b uild the .csproj the output should look like this: WpfToUwpTestApp.exe appxmanifest.xml Assets/StoreLogo.png Assets/Square150x150Logo.scale-200.png Assets/Square44x44Logo.scale-200.png The appmanifest.xml The next step is to create the ...

01.10.2016 | 279 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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Lets convert a WPF app to the Universal Windows Platform

... I also added a couple of dummy store images (from the default UWP app project template) - my solution looks like this: When we b uild the .csproj the output should look like this: WpfToUwpTestApp.exe appxmanifest.xml Assets/StoreLogo.png Assets/Square150x150Logo.scale-200.png Assets/Square44x44Logo.scale-200.png The appmanifest.xml The next step is to create the ...

01.10.2016 | 186 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 | 193 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 | 357 1 | Code-Inside Blog

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CAKE: Building solutions with C# & Roslyn

... in C# You can get CAKE via NuGet Before we b egin you might want to check out the actual web site of CAKE Cross Platform support Our goal: Building, ... 1 MSBuild & MSTest 2 MSBuild & NUnit MSBuild & Web .config Transformations “FAKE: Building C# projects without knowing a tiny ... tiny bit of F#” “FAKE: Build ASP.NET projects with web .config transformation (and without knowing a tiny bit of ...

09.07.2016 | 364 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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CAKE: Building solutions with C# & Roslyn

... in C# You can get CAKE via NuGet Before we b egin you might want to check out the actual web site of CAKE Cross Platform support Our goal: Building, ... 1 MSBuild & MSTest 2 MSBuild & NUnit MSBuild & Web .config Transformations “FAKE: Building C# projects without knowing a tiny ... tiny bit of F#” “FAKE: Build ASP.NET projects with web .config transformation (and without knowing a tiny bit of ...

09.07.2016 | 182 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#)

... a web .debug.config or web .release.config in your ... Web .Config Transformation. With ... web .config should cover ... Web .Release.config ?xml version ... Web Deploy-World you would ... web .config transformations only ... web .config transformations. Publish ... Web Hosted Connect..." !! ... web .config contained “ ... web .config and don’t ... web .config transformation. The ... web application, with the web ...

12.06.2016 | 148 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#)

... a web .debug.config or web .release.config in your ... Web .Config Transformation. With ... web .config should cover ... Web .Release.config ?xml version ... Web Deploy-World you would ... web .config transformations only ... web .config transformations. Publish ... Web Hosted Connect..." !! ... web .config contained “ ... web .config and don’t ... web .config transformation. The ... web application, with the web ...

12.06.2016 | 391 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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Copy to clipboard with Javascript

... not even a flash, // so some of these are just precautions. // // However in IE the element // is visible whilst the popup box asking the user for permission for // the web page to copy to the clipboard. To prevent this, we are using // the detectIE workaround. // Place in top-left corner of screen regardless of scroll position. textArea.style.position 'fixed'; textArea.style.top 0; ...

13.05.2016 | 222 0 | Code-Inside Blog

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Copy to clipboard with Javascript

... not even a flash, // so some of these are just precautions. // // However in IE the element // is visible whilst the popup box asking the user for permission for // the web page to copy to the clipboard. To prevent this, we are using // the detectIE workaround. // Place in top-left corner of screen regardless of scroll position. textArea.style.position 'fixed'; textArea.style.top 0; ...