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11 May 2026

Slow .NET builds/tests? An installed preview SDK might be the culprit

If you have a .NET preview SDK installed on your machine (for example, the .NET 11 preview), the dotnet CLI may default to it — and in my…

28 May 2025

WASM: AggregateException_ctor_DefaultMessage (Could not resolve type with token …)

We ran into an interesting issue after installing .NET 9 SDK 9.0.204 (and 9.0.300 didn’t help either) with published Blazor WebAssembly front-ends. The app failed to load, and…

1 Oct 2024

Go to file member Visual Studio

I’ve been struggling for a long time with how to quickly navigate to a member in a larger file when I already know its name. Resharper/Rider has a…

28 Feb 2018 Talk

Cloud Application Development – 02 Azure App Services, WebJobs, SQL, SendGrid [MFF UK NSWI152, LS 2018]

Recording from the second lesson (27/Feb 2018) of Cloud Applications Development course (NSWI152) for MMF UK (LS 2017/2018). It is publish on our HAVIT YouTube Channel. Topics covered: Azure…

28 Nov 2017

Tip: Microsoft LogParser [Studio] superfast SQL-like querying of any log file

LogParser (download) is a command line tool from Microsoft which allows you to query any text-based log file using SQL-like syntax. The basic list of supported formats is quite…

24 Nov 2017

Conclusion to my #NoResharper challenge with Visual Studio 2017

With Visual Studio 2017 being released earlier this year I decided to go for my regular #NoResharper challenge. With every single major version of VS I try to…

9 Oct 2017

WinDbg: SOSEX Help – Command Reference

SOSEX is one of the few existing Windows Debugger extensions for managed code (.NET). It adds a few useful commands to the basic SOS, but its command reference…

26 Sep 2017

Visual Studio: Keyboard shortcuts to navigate to next/previous member in code

In Resharper there is a well known keyboard shortcut to navigate to next (Alt+Down) or previous (Alt+Up) member in code. In plain Visual Studio (at least in VS2017+)…