On July 1st, I was honored to receive my first Microsoft MVP award in the category of Visual Studio and Development Technology. The majority of my community work is in the form of blog posts, BHM.NET Meetup event/group organization and other public speaking. I’ve always enjoyed participating in the .NET community but I stepped it …
The .NET team released Preview 2 of .NET Core 2.0 as well as a newer build of Visual Studio Preview 15.3 (Preview 3) yesterday: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/06/28/announcing-net-core-2-0-preview-2/ Here are the downloads for .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/download-archives/2.0.0-preview2-download.md One of the big changes for .NET Core 2.0 is the addition of more than 20,000 new APIs to …
Selenium AND .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2 – it works! Read More »
We started seeing the following new error yesterday from an ASP.NET 4.5 site hosted in IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008 R2: Application information: Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/3/ROOT/V_1.0.00-1-131431442115804150 Trust level: Full Application Virtual Path: /V_1.0.00 Application Path: D:\Programs\acme\SERVICES\doc.svc.acme.com\V_1.0.00\ Machine name: Server10P Process information: Process ID: 3508 Process name: w3wp.exe …
I recently had an issue after adding the reboot Chef resource to one of my cookbooks. I kept receiving the following errors during the Kitchen converge step and couldn’t figure out what was going on: >>>>>> ——Exception——- >>>>>> Class: Kitchen::ActionFailed >>>>>> Message: 1 actions failed. >>>>>> Failed to complete #converge action: [No connection could be …
I’ve been contemplating “What is agile, really?” lately and how to explain it to others effectively. If you are an agile practitioner and haven’t committed the Manifesto for Agile Software Development to memory yet go read it again. http://agilemanifesto.org/ In trying to think through the process and how to explain it to the non-indoctrinated, I …
I recently gave a talk about the Interface Segregation Principle in SOLID and wanted a way to easily find areas where I had broken the principle. I found a few free tools that gave some simple views but nothing great. Then I remembered hearing about nDepend on a podcast somewhere and decided to try it. …
I recently paved and installed Windows 10 on my work laptop. I decided to not install older versions of Visual Studio and only install VS2017. In general, that has worked out really well but I have had one nagging issue. I routinely test my builds by running MSBuild.exe manually from the commandline. This cuts down …
I’ve been working on a Chef cookbook for our web servers recently and needed to include the installation and configuration of AppFabric for WCF service monitoring. AppFabric is fairly old at this point and although there is documentation its not always clear which AppFabric product/version it is for. “AppFabric” is one of those product names …
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We had a team recently who couldn’t get there Selenium tests to run via a TFS test build. We kept getting the following error: Test method IntegrationTests.Reports.ScheduleReportsTests.Validate_Report threw exception: OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver server for URL http://localhost:6452/session timed out after 60 seconds. —> System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed out TestCleanup method …
I hit an issue last week when trying to run kitchen verify where I received the following error: >>>>>> ——Exception——- >>>>>> Class: Kitchen::ActionFailed >>>>>> Message: 1 actions failed. >>>>>> Failed to complete #verify action: [Invalid argument @ dir_s_mkdir – C:/Users/rschi/AppData/Local/Temp/acme-win-webdefault-nano-sandbox-20170619-7672-1f5jk28/D:] on acme-win-webdefault-nano Notice the “/D:” at the end of the “dir_s_mkdir” argument value. Very weird! …