This is a very common error in the Microsoft world and it has been causing me some grief for a while. The first thing to note is that the error is misleading in that it tells you what it found and this is confusing at best. Microsoft actually have some…

I’ve used Mercurial for seven years now and I am reasonably comfortable with it. Most of the time I’m using it at a fairly simple level and I’ve rarely had a major issue with it though I did once have to help a novice user who had become incredibly tangled…

This came about because I had data in an Azure Storage Table that I wanted to clear out. What I wanted was something like the SQL Server Truncate table command or the SQL Delete command. Googling around revealed various suggestions on StackOverflow however these all seemed a little complex for…

Having been away from work for a few days, I returned to find my legacy ASP.NET MVC application presenting me with this error despite being unchanged during my absence. Sometimes when I get this error the following fix works. …

I’ve been battling with entity framework to try to get a database migrated from a local instance to Azure. The rest of that story is for another day, however I am creating a .net 6 application and wanted to run the ef commands from the command line. …

I’ve recently been doing some work with Azure websites and realised that for someone like me who is used to websites being on an IIS box there are some areas that aren’t so easy to figure out. As I come across new material I will add it here. KUDU This is…

This all started with the error message in an MVC application— Could not load file or assembly ‘WebGrease’ …. A very familiar type of error to many of us but in this case it rang a dark distant bell. I tried all the usual things (in no particular order) —…

For some reason some software companies like to improve their software to near the point it becomes useless. The bigger the company the more this seems to happen. Many years ago, when hand crafting HTML was a big thing, I found a simple HTML editor that I really liked. …

This is one of those things that is superficially simple but has a few quirks that can take a little while to work around. I have an ASP.NET core application that has a number of different layouts. Each of these layouts needs to have a single dropdown button. …