Do the Log4j vulnerabilities affect Keyoti products?
You may be wondering if the recent (as of 2021/12/14) vulnerabilities in Log4j affect any Keyoti products. The answer is no, they do not because none of our products use Log4j.
Visual of the actual colours in Visual Studio’s EnvironmentColors
If you are developing a Visual Studio extension, you will probably encounter the EnvironmentColors class which contains many static properties defining the colour of elements in Visual Studio’s UI. For example to specify a Border element’s …
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Open up Visual Studio web projects for access over the internet using Conveyor.
Watch the video or read more below What is Conveyor? Conveyor is used to Open up IIS Express to allow access over your local network (eg. access from phones, tablets and other devices). Tunnel a domain …
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Remote debug .NET applications over the internet with Visual Studio
“Remote debugging” typically consists of Visual Studio connecting to a machine on the local network and then debugging a process (application) on that machine just the same as if it were running locally. Although not advertised, …
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Craft and elegance in programming
I would like to write about the craftsmanship of coding, and how problems can be made trivial with the right approach, or horrible with the wrong approach. One example that comes to mind is from the …
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Bluetooth Low Energy in Windows 10: Troubleshooting Capabilities
The problem When implementing BLE in a Windows Runtime or Universal Windows app, using BluetoothLEAdvertisementWatcher (or BluetoothLEAdvertisementPublisher), you may find that the instance stops immediately after you start it, with the status bluetoothLEAdvertisemenetWatcher.Status == BluetoothLEAdvertisementWatcherStatus.Aborted The reason …
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Why did Microsoft release Solitaire as a freemium app in Windows 10?
You probably noticed that after the Windows 10 release there was some backlash on the web about the humble FreeCell Solitaire game being released as freemium. Essentially you can play it for free, and get an …
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Sick of Javascript? Intro to Typescript: Visual Studio Setup
This is intended to be a description of how to get Visual Studio projects setup to use TypeScript (TS), I also wrote an introduction to TypeScript. There are hiccups with the older IDEs, but remember these are …
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Sick of Javascript? Typescript Introduction: Why you should use it.
Have you ever tried taking Javascript beyond basic page scripts to create applications, but found it frustrating due to Javascript’s limitations (no typing, poor inheritance etc)? There’s a solution; it’s compatible with all browsers, requires no …
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ASP.NET v5/Web API/vNext/OWIN, a beginners primer, part 2 Web Forms
This is part 2 of my series on “ASP.NET v5/Web API/vNext/OWIN, a beginner’s primer”. Firstly, if you’re looking for a way to self host Web Forms from Katana, I am afraid that you are out of …
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