Re: Client-side data into asp.net post

> > . hooking into the form submit event (javascript) and appending any number > of hidden input fields... > That's not quite what I'm doing, but I think I've cracked it anyway. I tried various asp.net controls to hold the client-side value, Label, TextBox and HiddenField, with different propertie

[OT] iMac backups

Folks, I have to take a snapshot of about 9GB of files on my El Capitan iMac. On Windows I would plugin a stick or portable and run robocopy with the /XD and /XF switches to exclude junk, but I'm not sure what the equivalent is on OSX. Does anyone have a handy technique for doing this sort of thing

Re: [OT] iMac backups

> > I just had the experience of a crashing macbook pro - short story, the > "timemachine" backup worked flawlessly for me > But doesn't TimeMachine backup to some hidden location on the same hard-drive? I don't consider that a "real" backup. If I had NBN I could backup the whole lot to the cloud

Re: Used Azure SQL DB? Why or why not?

I haven't used SQL Azure in a live app yet, but have some personal and testing DBs up there. In a couple of weeks I'll share a DB with another developer who lives over an hour drive away, so instead of swapping zips of DB backups, we'll now connect to the same Azure DB, which is really convenient a

Re: Used Azure SQL DB? Why or why not?

> > Another argument we got from the DBAs was "we are responsible for the > integrity of the data so we're not relying on some thing in the cloud we > know nothing about." > A major Melbourne hospital network said that to us recently. They demanded that the ASP.NET app be installed by their IT sta

Mobile Emulator

Has anyone here successfully run a Windows 10 mobile app in the Mobile Emulator? I created a fresh UWP app and selected 6" phone for design and emulator debugging like this: [image: Inline images 3] Hitting F5 produces the popup below. This simple looking error is insolvable. I have verified that

Re: installing multiple things on my development machine. Are Virtual machines still the way to go?

If you're getting a new box, then get 16GB++ of RAM (it's cheap) and you can run multiple VMs easily. I use VMWare player. You should never suffer slow loading of VMs, for me they're as fast to load and run as the native OS. I've haven't used Docker yet. My advice: Only install what you really need

Re: installing multiple things on my development machine. Are Virtualmachines still the way to go?

> > Oh sorry Kirsten that's my old IBM days coming through. The function keys > used to be named PF1 PF2 etc...I meant F5 (start debug in Visual Studio). > I thought I was seeing things. Yes, wasn't PF07 scroll up and PF08 scroll down, and PF01 help? I've forgotten now -- *Greg*

Re: installing multiple things on my development machine. Are Virtualmachines still the way to go?

> > How should I go about "disabling junk" ? > Sadly, I didn't keep notes last time I did it. I remember disabling some useless services, removing almost every tiled app (using Powershell), using autoruns.exe to find all the obscure

Re: installing multiple things on my development machine. Are Virtual machines still the way to go?

> > Do watch out for having too many versions of SQL Server installed - it can >> end up making your PATH environment variable too big and then "bad things" >> start happening. >> > I just had a look at my default login path for the first time in a year or so and I'm shocked by finding the followin

Re: Mobile Emulator

> > i know you said its installed and running but can u confirm the above is > ticked? if yes what happens when you try to create a new VM using the > Hyper-V Manager? > I created a VM okay (I tried to install XP SP2 in it as an exercise, but after struggling to get a network defined it then died

Application Registration

Folks, FYI -- a couple of weeks ago I said I couldn't remember how the magic worked that let you just run excel.exe for example and it finds it without being in the PATH. I finally stumbled upon the registry entries that control this, and it's called (what a surprise) *Application Registration*. Th

[OT] Deleting Facebook account

Folks, does anyone know if there is a way to force Facebook to delete my account that I closed two years ago? I ran a probe a couple of weeks ago by attempting to reset the password of my supposedly defunct account, but it sprang back to life and is attempting to invite me back. I have discovered t

Re: [OT] Deleting Facebook account

> > Re enable it then disable it again. The disable page has instructions for > permanent deletion requests and they take 60 days. > Although it was a while ago, I'm sure I read the instructions carefully and chose a "real" delete. But then again, FB make everything as obscure, ambiguous and diffic

Re: [OT] Deleting Facebook account

ion requests and they take 60 days. > > On Tue., 21 Feb. 2017, 8:02 pm Greg Keogh, wrote: > >> Folks, does anyone know if there is a way to force Facebook to delete my >> account that I closed two years ago? I ran a probe a couple of weeks ago by >> attempting to reset

resources.dll not found

Folks, pardon me for putting a Xamarin question into the general .NET group, but maybe there's a slim chance someone in here might have a clue. Pasted below a question I put into the Xamarin forums, but I never expect a reply. I've posted a few questions in the group but have NEVER received a reply

Re: resources.dll not found

> > Fuslogvw no help ? > Sadly, I'm on an iMac in Xamarin Studio. Otherwise it would have been my first choice on Windows -- *GK*

Re: resources.dll not found

> > Have you tried deleting the resource file (or all of them if more than > one) and creating a new one from scratch? Just a stab in the dark. Sort of, I added a fresh test resx file (leaving the old one) and it also generated the same error inside the GetString method. I also tried different cu

Re: resources.dll not found

them in the project files. > > David > > "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes > will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" > -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama > > On 27 February 2017 at 14:27, Greg Keogh wrote: > >> Have you tried deleting the re

Re: resources.dll not found

nd can't be fixed > within Xamarin Studio. So I manually add them in the project files. > > David > > "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes > will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" > -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama > > On 27 February 2

Visual Studio 2017 offline installer

Just a warning that if your follow the instructions here to make an offline en-US installer: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/create-an-offline-installation-of-visual-studio You'll get a whopping 20.5 gigawatts of 1826 files in 700 folders. I'm running the resulting exe now t

Re: Visual Studio 2017 offline installer

> > Yup it's still there. > Ooops! I didn't notice any drill-down options. The new UI design outwitted me -- *GK*

Re: Visual Studio 2017 offline installer

> > There's "tabs" that don't look very tab like across the top of the > component selector. > When you work on a Mac and Windows and different phones and tablets and you visit a wide variety of web sites, your brain becomes befuddled with what visual clues to look for to do anything. It's a bit o

Re: Visual Studio 2017 offline installer

> > Yeah, it's called "getting old". > Nah, the problem is that the people making all the new UI "standards" are too young!

Silverlight and Visual Studio 2017

Folks, a warning: I was just experimenting with VS2017 in a VM to be sure that all of my existing projects will work, before I upgrade on my real PC. It was going quite well until I couldn't load a Silverlight 5 project. I installed the developer runtime and fiddled around a bit and it still wasn't

Re: Silverlight and Visual Studio 2017

> > And there it is... the memorial service announcement... > Yeah, I felt like I'd stumbled through a cemetery and tripped over a fresh grave with *Silverlight 2007-2017* engraved on the tombstone (like that scene in Back To The Future II). I'm sure it wouldn't have been too hard to leave SL pro

Re: [Advice] Xamarin as a next step.

> > My manager now wants me to learn Xamarin, but I don't feel confortable > doing mobile apps etc. > How stable is the technology, should I buckle down and learn it, or should > I start looking for another job? > Cough! In the 37 years that I've been writing software, I can tell you without a dou

Re: [Advice] Xamarin as a next step.

> > Go Unity3D... > Wow, wouldn't that be like using a supercollider to recharge your phone battery? However in these strange times, who knows?! It's worth reading about Unity3D anyway as general knowledge -- *GK*

Re: WebApi - PUT and DELETE

> > Yep the client should detect what has changed As an aside: this discussion hints at just what a shambles REST is. As Wikipedia reminds us, REST is just a "style" not a well defined "protocol" like SOAP for example. I just don't know how this subject leaked out of a guy's PhD thesis and was ad

Re: WebApi - PUT and DELETE

> > why hasnt anyone attempted to sound important and mentioned idempotent > yet!? > Because if I did, it wouldn't have any effect no matter how many times I said it -- *GK*

Re: WebApi - PUT and DELETE

> > I think we'll stick with the RPC style of call and not go with a RESTful > interface, and anyone that cares that much about it in an interview can go > and get a pointier hat. > Oooh, I'd still try to do things the restful way and follow the "standards" (cough, ahem!), or "conventions". If you

HTML5 app suggestions

Folks, I was just told we have a big customer who is aware of the dying support for Silverlight and they are asking if we have a browser-based version of our app. We have an original Windows desktop version, the Silverlight version and recently created mobile version for all 3 brands of tablets and

Re: HTML5 app suggestions

> > is your business app suited to a SPA ? > I thought that was my only choice really. BUT ... I realise now I'm so blinded by the recent fads for SPA architectures that I forgot about good 'ol ASP.NET MVC (not Forms any more, I've suffered enough). Hmm ... let's say for now that I was thinking S

SPA decision

Folks, I've been reading the results of search for things like "SPA vs ASP.NET" and "why use SPA" etc etc. I have come to the conclusion that JS driven SPAs are not all they're cracked up to be, and the cons outweigh the pros. I'd even go so far as to say that SPAs are a fad, and even worse, that t

Re: Ozdotnet list

Steve, a brave suggestion. This group's traffic has decreased dramatically in recent years. I presume we're all world-class experts now and don't need to ask questions that often! A fresh forum with a modern UI and features sounds quite attractive, as opposed to an old fashioned e-mailing list, but

Re: SPA decision

> > Lol "classic asp.net mvc". > It depends on what the client wants obviously but we've found mvc suits > best for most projects we work on. > Don't laugh, I was mentally caught up in the "fad" of SPAs, probably because there are so many articles, meetups and discussions of the subject around me.

Re: Ozdotnet list

If Discourse tags conversations like other typical modern forums, then we can have lots of easily identifiable sub-topics like .NET, C#, F#, Xamarin, Android, WPF, VB Sucks, OT, etc. There are a hell of a lot of forums for IT, far too many I think, so we'll have lots of competition and will need t

Re: Ozdotnet list

> > All welcome, I say. > I'm not racist, but, what about JavaScript developers? ;-) *GK*

Re: SPA decision

> > The SPA site is, a youg devloppers wet dream of technologies, Gulp, Less, > you name it it's in there. The code is buggy and never does what you > expect it to do. > You have decorated part of my reason for not going SPA for the new demo. In my reading of blogs and forums I've seen a lot of c

Re: Windows folder redirection and Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location and editing a .config file at run time

Yoikes ... You've got a 3rd party config file that stuck beside the executables in a folder that is not writable by normal user accounts, but you need to update it at runtime. It sounds like you're snookered as you're technically breaking the modern compliance rules. You could annotate the program

Azure Storage and Xamarin

Folks, I posted the question below into the official Xamarin forum about two weeks ago but never received any replies. Since it's Friday I thought I'd run it up the flagpole in here just in case anyone can salute it -- *Greg K* Can someone please clarify for me if the Microsoft Azure

Re: Windows folder redirection and Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location and editing a .config file at run time

> > In terms of permission I can use icacls to make the changes can't I? > I'm lucky to have some installer CAs written in C# so I tweak permissions in code. You could shell-out to the icacls command, but be careful with timing and command arguments. I forgot which of cacls utilities was the most

Re: Azure Storage and Xamarin

> > If I was to implement something like this (I've not done so, sorry) then > I'd look at putting a WebAPI on it as the external interface. > There are scenarios for small mobile apps where creating a WebApi to support it is overkill. I know you can "knock them up" in the Azure portal pretty quick

Re: Azure Storage and Xamarin

cluding Xamarin/UWP >applications. > > If it doesn't work, then I would suggest adding an issue in that Github > repo detailing how/why it is not working. > > On 7 April 2017 at 12:56, Greg Keogh wrote: > >> If I was to implement something like this (I

Modern C++

Folks, those of us writing managed code in here should be really grateful. I know because on the weekend I tried to resurrect some of my C++ library code that has been untouched since 2003. Well ... everything has changed thanks to the security review, Unicode, new standard libraries, language feat

Re: Modern C++

> > Not missing C++ because I'm still using it day-to-day :) > How's the experience? Using all the new fangled styles, libraries and compilers that appeared in the last 14 years? -- *GK*

Re: Modern C++

> > Haven't used printf or scanf (or their friends) in ages. > They were the first things to be highlighted when I compiled my old source for the first time. I also wanted Unicode support like we're used to with the managed String class, but I wasn't sure what the latest C++ convention was for thi

Visual Studio2017 updates

I just received a newsletter email telling about recent (and rapid) updates to Visual Studio 2017. See release notes HERE . However I'm not sure how to get or install these updates. All links lead to the main product download pag

Re: Visual Studio2017 updates

> > I think you do in app updates. > Bingo! I forgot to look in there. I was trawling web sites for the update as a force of habit. It's offering me 26403, which corresponds to the article comments I've pasted below. It asked to update the dependent VS installer before proceeding. Urrrggh, it's ru

Re: Unit testing question and stored procedures

I'm one of those ummm ... purists who reckons you shouldn't put anything (like business logic) in procs that needs unit testing -- *GK* On 26 April 2017 at 15:36, Greg Low (罗格雷格博士) wrote: > Yep, that’s how we do it. Some people use transactions to do a similar > thing but you can’t test transact

Re: Unit testing question and stored procedures

an be properly optimised by a competent DBA), >> but I don't have to worry about mapping while being quite performant. And >> you can always fall back to hand-written ADO.NET and a hand-written >> mapper for absolute best performance (although I've not found I

Re: log server [OT]

> > can anyone recommend a log server they know and love? (theres a myriad of > options out there!) > I use Azure Tables as a logging destination. Last year I wrote a log4net appender which buffers and delivers rows in efficient batches, and I think there are similar public addons for other popula

[OT] WMWare slow Windows 10

Folks, for years I've used free WMware Workstation to run Windows XP, Vista, 8.x and 10, also Ubuntu. I'm currently up to VMWare v12. All of the guest operating systems running smooth and fast, EXCEPT Windows 10, which is so slow it can take 6 minutes just to launch VS2017, and everything is unbea

Re: [OT] WMWare slow Windows 10

My VMs are on a 1TB metal drive that is a couple of years old. I'll give the defrags a go (they can run in the background while I'm on the Mac) and see what happens. I'm not hopeful, but what-the-heck. Then I'll have another look at the various settings. Replace the metal with SSDs! Hmmm ... they a

Re: [OT] WMWare slow Windows 10

s an OS issue (e.g. check Windows > Event Log inside the guest VM), or a VMWare issue (are you running the > latest version of VMWare Workstation? Updated the VMTools etc? > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-bounces@ > ozdotnet.com ] *On Behalf Of *

[OT] Giant Windows 10 update

On a different subject ... I don't seem to have much control over my PC these days. I was prompted for a restart because updates were pending. I guess we all see this now and then, so I said yes. 45 minutes later I discover it was actually the 1703 Creators Update. My wallpaper went black, OneDri

Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

> > I've read about people experience of xamarin on the list and it doesn't > seem to resonate as mature technology. > It's slowly improving, and you get used to it. It's still faster and easier to write C# and XAML than it would be to write and maintain wildly differing native projects -- *GK*

Azure Active Directory

Folks, I'm wondering if Azure Active Directory might be a suitable candidate for running our authentication and permissions. We have a growing number of programs, services and mobile apps which currently perform authentication against a 1990s vintage database which contains users, passwords, permi

Re: Azure Active Directory

Yooiks! I'm not quite sure what I want (which is a worry). WAAD vs AADDS You say WAAD is more light-weight, which probably suits us, I think. Overall, as a coder, I want to put all authentication and permission/roles information for all of our apps and users in a single place where it can be main

Re: Azure Active Directory

410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 > fax > > SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com |http://greglow.me > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-bounces@ > ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Greg Keogh > *Sent:* Wednesday, 21 June 2017 10:45 AM > *To:* ozDotN

Re: Azure Active Directory

> > If you do get to revisit Auth0, as you probably discovered it has the > ability to authenticate against multiple sources including existing > databases and AAD (see screenshot http://screencast-o-matic.com/ > screenshots/u/xj9/1498029629044-30138.png). It was one of the reasons we > switched to

Re: Azure Active Directory

> > Hey Greg, are you asking how to bulk create a bunch of users (username, > password) in azure AD? > Yes ... **IF** we determine that Azure AD is a suitable authentication system for our new cloudified apps then I will have to find a way of migrating several hundred users from the legacy DB into

Re: Azure Active Directory

> > Being super obvious here but could you turn the 3 pieces of info into 2 > with Yes indeed. If I get over the cultural hurdle of getting Auth0 accepted as a candidate, then I'll probably do that. Since we have a big refactor coming up, I have a chance to slip Auth0 into one of the rewrite demo

[OT] Comodo EV SSL

Folks, I was about to renew a 3rd year of my Comodo EV SSL cert, but the $US99/year price in previous years has jumped to $249. A sales person confusingly told me the "standard price" is $449 and the "current price" is $249. More confu

Re: [OT] Comodo EV SSL

> > Why are you using an EV cert? > Because it looks pretty and creates a nice impression. I could downgrade to a cheaper non-EV option, which is my backup plan. I see on their website there's a $117.51 EV option which the sales person never mentioned. Typical product and price confusion. *GK*

Swashbuckle documentation

Is anyone in here documenting a WebApi by adding Swashbuckle to the project? I've done so and it's working reasonably well with relatively little code or suffering. Although it's struggle at first to read conflicting articles and then figure out which xmldocs and attributes actually do anything and

Re: Swashbuckle documentation

> > We are using it for our APIs and [FromBody] parameters are magically > appearing. > Yes, just like many articles suggest. Great example. You can see a sample of my problem here: https://www.orthogonal.net.au/pegwebapi/swagger/ui/index#!/Session/Session_MockMethod I've pasted below a picture

Re: Swashbuckle documentation

> > Totally a stab in a dark here but perhaps your MockStuff class has to be > decorated with something before the "magic" code behind the scenes picks it > up. I did put a [DataContract] on it as an experiment that failed, but I'm holding the same suspicion as you and I can't rule it out yet --

Re: Swashbuckle documentation

> Grant > > > > > > Grant Castner > 0458 770 749 > http://twitter.com/grantcastner > https://au.linkedin.com/in/grantcastner > > > > *From: *Greg Keogh > *Sent: *Tuesday, 27 June 2017 4:57 PM > *To: *ozDotNet > *Subject: *Swashbuckle documentatio

Context menus for .sln file

Folks, back on Windows 7 I made some registry tweaks to add some really handy extra "Open with" shell context menus for the .sln extension. My Blog Post on doing this is still online. On Windows 10 the registry changes h

Re: Context menus for .sln file

> > Hopefully I'm not breaking any rule to give Directory Opus a plug, it's > great for this stuff and loadsmore. > That's an impression utility, and it looks like it implements custom context menus, but it's far to heavy-handed for my modest needs. I was hoping to just tweak a few registry entrie

Re: Context menus for .sln file

> > Below is a register file that adds context menu items when you right click > on a .dll file which allows me to run an “Elevate.exe” on the dll. > Ah thanks, I'll inspect it detail later. At a glance it looks similar to what I was doing. However there is something a bit odd about the .sln regis

Re: Context menus for .sln file

> > Not quite the same, but could you use the “Send To” functionality? > > Just place a link/batch file/etc in the appropriate users Send To folder > (C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo) > I've actually used the sendto for many years, and it's handy but too broad. I have a

Powershell testing

How to people write PowerShell scripts in a productive way? I'm writing my first non-trivial one to query and update the tables in MSI files. I reckon I have wasted more than half the coding time (many hours)on utterly infuriating and bewildering problems. I'm writing the script in ISE and I hit F

Re: Powershell testing

ithout any useful message. It turns out I had the MSI file open in Orca and couldn't see the window, which was causing the script to crash with a generic COM error. *GK* On 8 July 2017 at 15:10, Greg Keogh wrote: > How to people write PowerShell scripts in a productive way? > > I'

Re: Powershell testing

> > I have moments with PS where I'm stunned how much I get done and how fast. > Other days, I want to poke my eyes out with a sharp stick after trying to > do something that seemed trivial. > I can see that for sure! That seems to be the double-edged sword of all scripting languages. I have a sm

Global SQL Server timeout

Folks, I have some old code that uses a mixture of Enterprise Library 5 and traditional ADO.NET classes. On some machines I'm getting command timeouts at 30 seconds. Is there a way of globally changing the timeout for all commands on the connection, perhaps by changing the connection string? I cou

Re: [OT] Comodo EV SSL

> > is free cheap enough ? > https://letsencrypt.org/ > > b4 you bag it out read the faq > https://letsencrypt.org/docs/faq/ > Quite surprising! It's a shame they only last 90 days I eventually got the truth out of one of the Comodo sales people that the cheapest EV cert was a "Positive EV SSL" (

Re: [OT] Comodo EV SSL

gt; for a renewal. > > read more here: > https://letsencrypt.org/2015/11/09/why-90-days.html > i like point 2) > >They encourage automation > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > >> is free cheap enough ? >>> https://letsencrypt.org/ >

Re: Stored procedure only ORM

> > Anyone here had any fairly recent experience with an ORM (EF?) to run only >> stored procedures? >> > Weirdly enough, I've found this to be quite a comfortable thing to do. If you make a commitment up-front that most of the grunt work will be done in procs, which can happen for staffing/skill r

Re: [OT] Comodo EV SSL

> > fwiw i usually redirect http to https > I had another bash at this with a fresh mind after reading various articles. I have 2 pairs of site bindings for http and https (www prefix and without). My DNS points both www and without to my IP. I added a redirect rule based upon this one

Re: [OT] Comodo EV SSL

> > > https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}"; > redirectType="Permanent" appendQueryString="false" /> > > > > > > > [1]: https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite > > >

Re: [OT] Comodo EV SSL

> > Do you have more than one site hosted on your IIS server? > Not for the last year. If not, just remove all the Host header values – you only need an IP + Port > binding – one for HTTP and one for HTTPS > Drats! I tried a some combinations along the lines of your suggestion, but no change in

Re: [OT] Comodo EV SSL

> > Do a “ping” and verify the hostnames are resolving to the correct IP. > > Then hit each http:// and https:// hostname in turn. > You've led me to the answer! I can ping the domain with and without www. IIS is never reached for http requests as nothing is logged for them. I didn't ask my cat

Re: Stored procedure only ORM

> > Thanks I will check it out > I've used Dapper to read SQLite, but not much more than that. I found it easy to use, so I'll guess it's probably lightweight and good for SQL procs too -- *GK*

[OT] WebApi not working

Folks, I deployed a WebApi to a Windows Server box that has never before had a REST style service installed on it. It has existing static sites, ASP.NET apps and SOAP services all running fine. Routing is not working for the WebApi and all you get for any request is: HTTP Error 404.0 - Not Found T

Re: [OT] WebApi not working

> > Reboot? ;) > (Sorry, it's my goto fix for nearly everything Windows. And I wish I was > joking.) > Sadly, that's often true. I'm using RDP to get into this box, and I've done more IIS resets than I can count, which probably almost as good as a reboot. I just tried adding IUSR and Authenticated

Re: [OT] WebApi not working

avid Burstin wrote: > Reboot? ;) > > (Sorry, it's my goto fix for nearly everything Windows. And I wish I was > joking.) > > On 31 July 2017 at 15:55, Greg Keogh wrote: > >> Folks, I deployed a WebApi to a Windows Server box that has never before >> had a REST sty

Re: [OT] WebApi not working

my missions today is to find out just what this settings does, why it's discouraged and what a "real" fix might be. *GK* > > > > > Regards > > > > Adrian Halid > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-bounces@ > ozdotn

HttpClient DefaultRequestHeaders

Folks, more hours wasted attempting to add a custom header to a HttpClient request. I just coded this: client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("X-SessionId", "F15C32D9D8E52D45"); But I was getting 400 request badly formed, which Fiddler showed was caused by this in the header: X-SessionId: F15C32D9D8E5

VS2017 start page

Folks, after upgrading to Visual Studio 2017 last weekend many weird things went haywire, of which most are fixed by one bumbling means or another. The weirdest thing by far was the Consolas normal font disappearing, which caused all my DOS prompts and the VS edit and output windows to show italic.

Visual Studio 2017 and WWF

After upgrading to Visual Studio 2017 I can't open any Windows Workflow projects (Incompatible, The application is not installed). Various advice from searches suggests to check WWF in the Individual Components list (seems obvious), but it weirdly makes no difference. Others suggest you need Share

Re: [OT] Aurelia use

> > https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/which-javascript-framework-should-i-choose- > enterprise-tony-wright > Nice summary, but it seems to confirm my fears that the JS ecosystem is still devolving into more fragments. I mean, oh lord, not another one ... Vue.js -- *GK*

Re: Visual Studio 2017 and WWF

it if certain conditions are met, but I'm not confident of the outcome and waste of time. *GK* On 22 August 2017 at 08:51, Greg Keogh wrote: > After upgrading to Visual Studio 2017 I can't open any Windows Workflow > projects (Incompatible, The application is not installed). &g

Re: [OT] Aurelia use

up the stack, hence the inclusion of redux, which is now part of >>>> Facebooks offering. Angular is the most complete/enterprise ready of all >>>> the frameworks, but it has its own impediments, predominantly being it's >>>> stupid syntax. Vue is out p

Re: Visual Studio 2017 and WWF

> > No, I think you will find it should be able to open. Our workflow projects > are very old, and they open just fine. We did upgrade them from .Net 3.5 to > 4.0 last year, but this was literally just a matter of changing the > framework target, there was no other change required. Looking at the >

Web debugging problem solved

Folks, a couple of weeks ago, after upgrading to Visual Studio 2017, I asked if anyone could guess why debugging any web app produced a "not found" popup for the start page. I finally discovered it was caused by Edge being the default browser instead of Internet Explorer. By sheer luck, or some men

Re: Web debugging problem solved

> > The option is also in the toolbar in the dropdown next to the "play" > button where you choose IIS Express or whatever else. Real programmers don't use toolbars! (but you're right, it's in the "Standard" bar, which I've hidden for years) -- *GK*

Re: Web debugging problem solved

> > At a funeral, the Real Programmer is the one saying ``Poor George. And he > almost had the sort routine working before the coronary.'' > If poor George was the real programmer, he would of course have gone out in repose, with his hands cradling a hard-cover copy of Knuth volume 3 on his breast

[OT] Post NBN problem

TGIF ... It 16 days from NBN installation to getting the phone and data working normally. Luckily the old cable modem on a splitter kept working in the meantime or we would have been cactus. I have only one incomprehensible problem after the changeover ... I have the domain and site orthogonal.net

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