Background

I was recently trying to use PowerShelGet Install-Package to install a module from an Azure DevOps Artifacts hosted PowerShell Gallery using the following script

1# For authentication use a PAT as the password, UID can be anything
2$PATcreds = Get-Credential 
3Register-PSRepository -Name BM -SourceLocation …

Azure Logic Apps

Azure Logic Apps is an Azure Integration Service (AIS) that provides you the ability to create and run automated workflows with little to no code. Consumption Logic Apps are developed using the visual designer within the Azure Portal.

If you are new to developing Azure Logic Apps, there is great …

Problem Space

I ran into a problem the other day working with the Fluent UI React component Controlled Multi-select Dropdown. As context, here is my redacted code and explanation:

import { Dropdown, IDropdownOption } from 'office-ui-fabric-react'; // office-ui-fabric-react@7.204.0

export interface State { …

Background

It is a really useful feature that you can expose Key Vault stored secrets as Azure DevOps pipeline variables via a variable group, but what happens when you do this? And what can you do if you try to expose too many variables?

I was recently working on a system where there was an increasing number of Key …

Background

I am using an Azure Function as backend for processing forms submissions from a Hugo static website, to process a simple contact form.

I wanted to add reCAPTCHA support, as the site was generating too many spam emails. I also wanted to show a different confirmation pages depending on whether the reCAPTCHA …

Problem

After deploying a dotnet 6 console app to a production server, I got the following error:

Exception: [Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data.Odbc, Version=6.0.0.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51'. The system cannot find the file specified.]

The strange thing was the same EXE, built on a …

Problem Space

I have been recently working on building a new Yaml pipeline in Azure DevOps and wished to use the GitVersion Task, however, upon running the pipeline the task failed with the following error:

ERROR [../../.. ..:..:..:..] An unexpected error occurred:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not …

The Problem

I recently did our regular update of our Azure DevOps Private build agents. It is rare we see problems when we do this, but this time one of our very regularly run builds started to fail when running unit tests.

We had not changed the project source code, all the test ran locally in Visual Studio. We had …

Problem Space

I recently started working on a Git Repository (not of my own creation) that had a repository name containing spaces.

As a helping hand when a repository is created with spaces in the name, the spaces are replaced with %20 when cloned … Unless otherwise specified, however, this would then need to …