Reading Time: 3 minutes. This post describes one nobrainerish fix to the error “An assembly specified in the application dependencies manifest [projectname].deps.json was not found.” I ran into this while running Update-Database for my ASP.NET Core web project, that’s using EntityFrameworkCore 2.1.1. I hadn’t seen this one before, but the error was quite interesting: Error: An assembly specified in the application dependencies manifest (Koskila.[projectname].AzureFunctions.deps.json) was not found: package: ‘Koskila.[projectname].AzureFunctions’, version: ‘1.0.0’ path: ‘Koskila.[projectname].AzureFunctions.dll’ Well that’s a weird one coming from an update-database command! Posts Related to “Fixing “An assembly […]
Category: DevTips
Sharing my best software development tips and tricks. From quick tips to actual guides and solutions.
Google Plus is shutting down – fix your .NET OAuth flow!
Reading Time: 7 minutes. Google is shutting down their Facebook killer, Google+. While I’m sure there’s at least 10 end users that are sad to see the ill-fated not-that-social-medium go, the implications for Software Developers actually could be far more far-reaching. A lot of implementations of Google’s OAuth seem to rely on Google Plus’s APIs to get gather information about the user. When Google Plus goes down, so will the APIs. Their apparently unsafe implementation seems to be a major reason Google’s hastening the shutdown anyway. This means that […]
Ignite 2018 recap: What’s new for Azure Functions?
Reading Time: 4 minutes. Ignite 2018 is done and dusted, and it’s a good time to quickly recap what’s new for Azure Functions in the coming months. They’ve certainly been getting a lot of love from Microsoft, which is GREAT! New features for Azure Functions There was a bunch of exciting new things announced! Not all of the things in this blog post are necessarily completely new – but rather reached General Availability. Let’s go through them one by one… Posts Related to “Ignite 2018 recap: What’s new for […]
How to fix an Azure Function (v2) failing with error “The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.”
Reading Time: 4 minutes. This post describes one way to resolve a problem, where you receive an error like “The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.” when calling your Azure Functions. Update: The issue described in this post has now been fixed, so if you’re using the GA version of Azure Functions CLI, this post shouldn’t interest you anymore! Problem Another day, another simple, yet kind of weird issue to solve! This time I was developing a simple Azure Function […]
How to show a pop-up in SharePoint
Reading Time: 6 minutes. This ages old trick deserves to be published – since it makes it easy to quickly show info from pretty much any another page on pretty much any classic SharePoint page (in a SharePoint-compatible pop-up). So, here goes: Using SharePoint’s JavaScript library to open an arbitrary pop-up Yes – SharePoint contains all the functionality out-of-the-box, and you almost don’t have to do anything yourself! Let’s see how this works. Okay – long story short. On all Classic SharePoint pages, you can call this function: SP.UI.ModalDialog.ShowPopupDialog(). Like […]