Posts from January 2021

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Posts from January 2021 (5)

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2021-01-26 9:06 a.m.
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koskila
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azuredevops devops nuget visual-studio

Azure DevOps Pipelines Caching

Azure DevOps pipelines have a pretty handy feature called Pipeline Caching . It'll help you avoid annoyingly long NuGet package restores in your builds. And that makes sense - why would you restore packages again and again and again, if you're not updating your dependencies meanwhile?

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2021-01-20 9:00 a.m.
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koskila
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certificates pfx

How to recover the private key of a (.pfx) certificate?

Recently, I ran into a problem that I definitely caused myself. I had a certificate, that was created to authenticate an app against Azure AD. The encryption key for the .pfx file was, however, lost. I could just create a new certificate, configure the app service to use that, and replace the old certificate... But that's manual labor and where's the fun in that? I prefer a solution that included a bit more coding!

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2021-01-12 7:23 p.m.
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koskila
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azurefunctions

How to fix "System.IO.FileSystem: Could not find a part of the path - - Value cannot be null. (Parameter 'provider')", when running Azure Functions locally?

Well, that title is a mouthful. But it's the topic for today, so what can you do? That said, this article should be pretty topical, as the issue started popping up only a few days ago. Chances are it'll be patched soon enough, but in the meantime, it's always useful to document the fix! Problem When running or debugging Azure Functions locally, your runtime just blurts our this error and fails to compile your functions: [2021-01-11T10:28:11.

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2021-01-11 1:06 p.m.
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koskila
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visual-studio

How to nuke the Identity Cache in Visual Studio?

This article explains one easy workaround to a lot of Visual Studio authentication issues. Personally, it's helped me multiple times when Cloud Explorer has gotten into a weird authentication loop or Visual Studio stops seeing my MSDN subscription.

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Published on

2021-01-06 4:53 a.m.
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koskila
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aspnetcore netcore3 nuget

Fixing unexpected Microsoft.AspNetCore package errors after a dependency update

This was a fun one! Suddenly, while running or debugging my ASP.NET Core 3.1 application, I started getting errors about missing assemblies, along the lines of "FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Forms". These DLL files were not required a minute earlier - nor did requiring them really make much sense in my mind - but there was a nonsensical, easy fix, so in the end, it was all good! But let's go through this thing in order.

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