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Posts from March 2022 (6)

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2022-03-07 2:57 a.m.
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koskila
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russiaukrainewar

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing

I never thought that I would write an article on this site of mine about war, peace and a threat to not only an entire nation's existence, but mine, too. But as this website has some reach (there's around 75 000 of you each month), I feel that I have a responsibility to say and do something. On February 24th, 2022, the fascist oligarchy known as Russia attacked yet another one of its neighbors. That's almost not even newsworthy by itself - it's happened multiple times before.

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2022-03-29 3:04 p.m.
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koskila
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graph-api graphexplorer

How to fix Graph API returning null properties for Users?

This article explains a quick fix to a small but annoying issue: Microsoft Graph API SDK persistently returning null values for most properties of your Microsoft.Graph.User objects. The issue might happen when using either the Graph API SDK or just calling the REST API directly. Both options are entirely acceptable, and in both cases, you're not getting the properties you wanted. Well, I wasn't, anyway.

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2022-03-22 4:27 a.m.
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koskila
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azureiot azureiotedge

How to get your Azure IoT Edge runtime to use port 443 instead of using 5671 and 8883?

Are you struggling with your Azure IoT Edge modules not receiving your Direct Method calls? Is EdgeHub reporting transient network issues? Are you seeing "Could not connect to your IoT hub: could not complete TLS handshake" errors? Are your modules experiencing constant 104 errors (connection reset by peer)? Fear not! This article explains how to fix them. Kind of. Problem We were experiencing some major issues with our customer's Edge devices.

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2022-03-15 5:03 a.m.
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koskila
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dotnet msbuild

How to copy dependent assemblies to the bin folder on build?

This is something that comes up pretty often - when you're building an application, or maybe a library you're sharing as a NuGet package to your friends: You'll need to share a dependency or two with your particular package, and you don't want your end users having to reference those libraries, too. Sounds easy, right?

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2022-03-15 4:00 a.m.
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koskila
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azureiotedge azureiothub

"Unable to retrieve IoT Edge informationIoT Edge configuration uses an unsupported schema and cannot be displayed." after deploying from VS Code. What do?

This article explains a couple of steps you might need to take when executing a Single-Device deployment from Visual Studio Code to an Azure IoT Edge device. Through a bit of trial and error, I learned quite a few things that might go wrong when VSCode is building your deployment manifest (the one that'll be hosted under "config" folder and used for the deployment - that is). Background So a while ago, I was updating the base deployment of an Azure IoT Edge device.

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2022-03-01 4:31 a.m.
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koskila
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azurefunctions cors

Azure Functions suddenly throwing CORS errors when ran locally? Easy fix(es)!

In this article, I'm listing the quick fixes to your Azure Functions suddenly throwing seemingly random and very unexpected CORS errors. I have run into this so many times that I had to list these (admittedly simple) fixes in order of importance purely for myself - but perhaps some of these will help you as well! 😁 CORS issues can be frustrating but the issue is usually, simple to fix - as long as you know what you are doing. But first, let's take a step back - what was the issue, again?

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