Broken name suggestions in VS2019
This post details how I fixed an issue in Visual Studio 2019 where variable name suggestions were completely wrong. It may help you, and it may not. Anyways here goes …
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Live Unit Testing with xUnit in VS2019
This is a reminder to myself more than anything else. It is not often that I get to greenfield a new project. Most of the time, the solution already exists, …
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[C#] Internal classes and generic unit-testing baseclasses
This is another blog post in the series of “Things that gave me plenty of grief, but eventually got solved”. I was working on a component that utilizes the Azure …
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Why is authenticating a Bot so hard?
Up to this point, I’ve done a number of workshops with partners around the world on the Microsoft Bot Framework and time and again, it is the authentication that always, without exception, …
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Debugging an ASP.Net Website that uses Azure Key Vault
In a recent partner hackfest, the need to store a Username/Password combination in Azure Key Vault arose. Setting up Key Vault instance was dead easy: Sign in to the Azure portal …
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Playing around with the Computer Vision API
TL;DR In this blog post, I talk about how I spend 3 hours setting up a chat bot that can recognize batteries using the Microsoft Custom Vision API. Recently, a …
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Detect bottlenecks with Azure Application Insights
What is Application Insights Anyway? Application Insights is an extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for web developers on multiple platforms. Use it to monitor your live web application. It …
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ESP8266 running on batteries
If you haven’t yet heard about the ESP8266 then it’s time for you to wake up and get serious! This little beauty is a seriously low-cost WiFi chip with a …
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Fun with english words
In this post, I explain how I made the program “SubWordsFinder” that takes a string, and finds all real English words that contain that string, then removes the string from …
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How is my plant doing, really?
I figured it’s time to post some pictures of my plant project at the same time that I’m trying our Word 2016‘s WordPress feature J You can clearly see how …
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