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If you’ve just tried to install a .NET tool and got smacked with the dreaded error message: “Settings file ‘DotnetToolSettings.xml’ was not found in the package,” congratulations: You are today’s lucky recipient of yet another cryptic dotnet installer hiccup! But don’t worry, we’re about to sort this nonsense out. Namely,…Continue reading dotnet tool install fails with “Settings file ‘DotnetToolSettings.xml’ was not found in the package.” – what do?
In Azure DevOps, you sometimes have a project that’s being built with a certain .NET version. It’ll require that particular SDK version, and most typically that is defined in the global.json file. However, if you also need to install a certain .NET tool, running dotnet tool install MyBuildTool will fail.…Continue reading How to avoid global.json version conflicts in Azure DevOps
This article explains a curious workaround that I figured out. In case you need a way to force app setting changes to be reflected in some libraries you need in your application, even if they don’t support any configuration after application startup. Problem Normally, a .NET application loads the configuration…Continue reading How to replace and reload application settings changes in .NET?
This is something that comes up pretty often – when you’re building an application, or maybe a library you’re sharing as a NuGet package to your friends: You’ll need to share a dependency or two with your particular package, and you don’t want your end users having to reference those…Continue reading How to copy dependent assemblies to the bin folder on build?
This article explains how to easily authenticate your WebSocket connections using .NET Core and vanilla JavaScript. The same concept probably applies to all sorts of front-end libraries, although some of them might offer some syntactic sugar on top of it. But it’s simple, and keeping your implementation simple is generally…Continue reading How to secure your WebSocket connection using .NET Core?
This article explains how to loop through all supported cultures on any given machine that’s able to run .NET. The code sample is in C# and outputs an HTML table you can copy – but obviously you can adapt it to your needs! This was something I needed to support…Continue reading Experiment: DateTime formats
