Previously, when it came to creating your own Microsoft bots, it required a certain degree of knowledge and custom development to make things actually happen.
This has all changed with the Microsoft’s Cognitive Services portfolio. You can now have a bot up and running in 10 minutes – literally!
ITIL is a well-known and established framework that provides a set of best practices for managing IT services. The ITIL Foundations exam is the entry level exam which aims to provide a general overview of key concepts and terminology of the ITIL framework.
Having just passed the ITIL Foundations Exam I wanted to share my thoughts and tips in this ITIL Foundation exam study guide to help you pass the exam.
Continue readingHave you published a long running web job in Azure and noticed that it has terminated with an ‘Aborted’ status. Chances are that the job has timed out.
In this post I’ll explain what’s happening here and how you can fix this.
IIS stores most of your website configuration in the applicationHost.config file. When performing repetitive tasks it’s often quicker and easier to apply changes directly to the applicationHost.config file rather than via the IIS manager user interface.
In this post I thought I’d shed some light on the IIS Configuration History feature built into IIS7 onwards – it’s a great feature that many developers don’t know about.
Azure offers the ability to set static IP addresses for hosted virtual machines. I recently had to configure this for some of our existing “classic” Azure virtual machines. The process is as follows. Continue reading
When trying to locally debug a newly created solution within Visual Studio 2015 I encountered the below error when locally launching the application using IIS Express
A process with the ID of <id> is not running
Seeing no errors logged in the Visual Studio Output window, I checked the Windows Event Viewer and found the following error:
The Module DLL C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express\aspnetcore.dll failed to load. The data is the error.
The error was a bit confusing because it alluded to ASP.NET Core even though I wasn’t using this in my project.
Continue readingWhile recently setting up a Google Chromecast (2nd generation) I was unable to successfully complete the setup process.
My Chromecast could not be detected on the network by my devices even though it had successfully connected to my wireless network and I could cast to it through the Youtube Android app.
I love Visual Studio Code! It’s a fantastic lightweight, cross-platform source code editor from Microsoft. Best of all, it’s FREE!!!
Starting with Visual Studio Code Beta (0.10.1 version) you can install extensions from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace to further enhance its functionality.
Here’s is my list of must-have extensions for VS Code:
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