I use my homeserver for storing my files and running the software for my WiFi access points and some various other stuff. Recently I’ve been on a power usage hunt through my house. Then I found out my server has a power consumption (with various stuff attached) of 66 watt. …
At work we create our build/release through Azure Pipelines. We also label our sources, this means that after a successful build we create a tag in our git repository. This however fails sometimes, usually due to the fact that the tag already exists. The problem with that is that is …
I wanted to load data on a screen in the background because I was experiencing UI Freezes on screen. After changing the code I found that that drawing to the screen actually takes a long time. So I wanted to update my gridview asynchronously. This seemed simple but quickly became …
Ive been working with a customer who uses SVN as version control. This works fine togeher with the Visual Studio plugin AnkhSVN. The problem is that this is a really old plugin and hasn’t been updated since 2016! This isn’t a big problem because usually it just works and causes …
When you’ve used TFS and visual studio you can link to a work item (Bug, Product backlog item etc.) bij using a #<number> in your commit message. After that it will display a link to your commit that you can click on. Which is really cool but we’re using TeamCity …
We recently had a problem at work where we inserted a data in a very short amount of time. But then we noticed something strange with the inserted data, because after querying a lot of insertion times where the same but we were (kinda) sure that it shouldn’t be the …
Most of us live in a GIT world. Most teams use feature branches to develop functionality using GIT. However there are still a lot of people who use TFS, SVN or even SourceSafe and may not know what they are and how to use them. In this post I will …
Within C# I use enumerations a lot. An enumeration is a distinct type which contains a collection of named constants. It can be a lot of underlying types (byte, sbyte, short, ushort, int, uint, long, or ulong) but i usually see the default which is an int (Int32). You can …
After my previous post about using Azure DevOps as a buildserver I am going to show you what else you can do with it. The second thing we are going do with it is create a NuGet package and publish it through Azure Pipelines. Read on if you want to …
Continuous Integration allows a developer to make sure their code builds correctly and that unit tests are run after each check in. There are of course a lot more things you can do with it but on this article I’ll focus on these two first. I’ll be using Azure DevOps …
