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A WPF Statusbar Control
In my desktop applications I've been using a reusable Status bar control that makes it easy to display status information on the status bar. Statusbar controls seem super simple, but reality is there...
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Map Physical Paths with an HttpContext.MapPath() Extension Method in ASP.NET
In classic ASP.NET - and even class ASP before it - there used to be a handy function called Server.MapPath() to map a virtual Web path to a physical path in the Web site.This can be useful if you need...
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Dotnet Tool Component not found on the Mac
This is a very short note to self in regards to installing and then running a global DotNet Tool on a Mac, which apparently after a default install of the .NET SDK, doesn't work out of the box.One of...
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IIS Error 500.19 with ASP.NET Core Application
Ah yes, IIS. It's been a while. But, if for some reason you need to run IIS - especially on a local dev machine for testing - and you've run into an 500.19 error in IIS like this:while trying to run an...
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Rolling Forward to Major Versions in .NET
I'm currently playing around with .NET 8 RC Preview release and upgrading several of my applications to run under .NET 8. In my early testing, moving to .NET 8 been very much a painless operation.But -...
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Rolling Forward to Major Versions in .NET
I'm currently playing around with .NET 8 RC Preview release and upgrading several of my applications to run under .NET 8 both Web server and Desktop based. In my early testing, moving those...
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Caching your WebView Environment to manage multiple WebView2 Controls
I've been struggling with some WebView initialization issues that are showing up in my application logs from a deployed application. Personally I've never run into these issues myself, however my...
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Save Files With Elevated Permissions on UnauthorizedAccessException
When building Desktop Applications that are document centric and that allow users to save files in any location - like an editor for example - you can run into a situation where on rare occasions a...
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Embedding a minimal ASP.NET Web Server into a Desktop Application
Have you ever wanted to embed a Web Server into another application like a Desktop app for example? It's not a common scenario but I've had a number of occasions where I've had a need for this:Markdown...
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3.2in progressInstall .NET 8.0 Runtime if Runtime Missing MM now installs the .NET 8.0 runtime if .NET 7.0 or 8.0 is not installed. We're still compiling with a 7.0 target but automatically roll...
View ArticleSetResolution: Setting Windows Display Resolution from the Terminal
I recently switched to a single 4k monitor and had a need to quickly switch resolutions to avoid the UI hostile Windows Display Resolution widget in Settings. I ended up creating a small command line...
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Integrating OpenAI Image Generation into a .NET Application
I fell down a rabbit hole after playing around with various image generation AIs and decided that for me this is incredibly useful functionality that I would like to integrate into Markdown Monster -...
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Working around the WPF ImageSource Blues
While working on the OpenAI Image Generator Addin from my previous post I ran into several behind the scenes issues related to the blasted Image control in WPF.Specifically I ran into two issues with a...
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Sharing Tab Missing in Windows Folder Properties
For unfathomable reasons, Windows 11 is actively discouraging the Sharing Tab on the Explorer Properties Context Menu, where it used to sit by default.I'm talking about this tab when you select a drive...
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Reading Raw ASP.NET Request.Body Multiple Times
Some time ago I wrote about retrieving raw HTTP request content from an incoming request and - surprisingly - it's one of the most popular posts on this blog. The post discusses a few ways how you can...
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Comparing Raw ASP.NET Request Throughput across Versions
It's that time of year again to upgrade to a new machine, and one of the first things I often do once the machine is set up is run some performance tests of a simple ASP.NET application that tests raw...
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Html to PDF Generation using the WebView2 Control
I've been using HTML to PDF generation for quite some time for a variety of purposes specifically in Markdown Monster. There are many solutions available - some good, some bad and many very expensive =...
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ASP.NET Core Module with Shadow Copy Not Starting: Separate your Shadow Copy...
I recently ran into a problem with random failures of my ASP.NET Core Web application on IIS where I would get the dreaded ACNM Error Page (ASP.NET Core Module):This is on what used to a be a stable...
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Speed up your Start Menu by disabling Web Search
I ran into a great tip yesterday on X, that is too good not to pass on and also to serve as a reminder for myself next time I install Windows:Holy hannah! Disabling web search on the start menu makes...
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Mime Base64 is a Thing?
In all my years of developing software, sending binary data back and forth I've never heard of Mime Base64. Apparently that is a thing for email encoding of binary data for some legacy applications...
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