How to find latest version of MsBuild in powershell
Build scripts for .net are always a bit painful, and Microsoft has not made it easy over the years as every release they change the paths. For 2017 it is even worse and it depends…
Microsoft.WebApplication.targets was not found (again)
Every time Microsoft releases some build tooling it feels like they forget lots of us use it to build websites. And we do this on build servers that do not have Visual Studio installed using…
Troubleshooting an Umbraco website
A few quick tips I have picked up working with UmbracoCMS that might help you out when things go wrong. Ensure you can login to the database directly using any username and password in the…
Deploy asp.net websites with an SSL certificate using Octopus Deploy
Octopus Deploy 3.11 upwards has a nice new feature to manage SSL certificates that makes it simple to deploy a web app with its x509 SSL certificate in a secure manner. Once it’s…
Cannot open VS 2015 Web project in VS 2017
Brand new installs of Visual Studio 2017 do not seem to be able to open some older web projects created in Visual Studio 2015 or before. To fix you need to add one line to…
Implementing the retry pattern in c sharp using Polly
This post is the third and final installment on the retry pattern following on from implementing a simple retry pattern in c# and the retry pattern for async tasks. In the last two posts we…
Implementing the retry pattern for async tasks in c#
This post is a follow on from Implementing a simple retry pattern in c#. Tasks, async and await are rapidly becoming be default API flavours in many dotnet libraries and the performance benefits for IO…
Implementing a simple retry pattern in c#
Everything is unstable. You cannot assume that every external service call will succeed on first attempt - the load balancer might be removing a failing host, the database might be being patched, the Ops person…
Converting an SVN repository to Git on windows
Git is everywhere these days, and I can't really remember how I used to cope without the power of local distributed source control and quick branching. But once in a while I find an old…
Cache the result of an async method using LazyCache
The latests release of LazyCache, my open source cache library based on ObjectCache, makes it easy to cache the results of asynchronous or Task returning methods, so now it is simpler for you to speed…