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…