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Visual Studio 2017 - Lost Razor Intellisense and Syntax Highlight - How to Fix it How to repair your Visual Studio 2017 installation and get back Intellisense and Syntax Highlight on your Razor pages & .cshtml files without reinstalling

August 20, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 6 Comments.

Today I had to deal with a nasty issue that happened on my Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Edition, right after installing the VS2017 15.8.1 update. In a nutshell, I had lost …

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External Provider Authentication using OAuth2 Implicit and Explicit Flow A quick tutorial explaining the key differences between the two grant types provided by the OAuth2 authorization flow

August 16, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Allowing users to sign in using their existing credentials is often a great way to drive additional traffic to our applications, as demonstrated by a number of case studies by …

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Microsoft MVP Award 2018-2019 in Developer Technologies The Microsoft MVP Award Box has arrived today in all its shining beauty: here are some high-resolution pictures of the box contents

August 16, 2018August 16, 2018 - by Dark - Leave a Comment

A couple weeks ago I got the wonderful news that I had been granted the Microsoft MVP Award 2018-2019 in Developer Technologies category: that's an awesome professional achievement that I'm …

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Windows Server - How to Send SMTP Auth E-Mail with PowerShell Using the System.Net.Mail.MailMessage and Net.Mail.SmtpClient .NET Framework objects with PowerShell to send authenticated e-mail messages through a secure SMTP server

August 15, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

A couple of years ago I published an article explaining how to send notification E-Mail messages with PowerShell. I wrote that post to demonstrate how a simple notification script could …

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Microsoft MVP: Everything You Need to Know A list of (great) things you can actually do since the day you get the Microsoft MVP award e-mail

August 15, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you've stumbled upon this post, it probably means that your mailbox has been recently visited by an e-mail from Microsoft congratulating you for being awarded as a Microsoft® Most Valuable …

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ASP.NET MVC - Controller Subfolder Routing using Attribute Routes How to create a Route to a Controller that is inside a Subfolder in a ASP.NET MVC Application Project using the MVC 5 Attribute Routing Feature

August 13, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

As you might already know if you're using ASP.NET MVC, routing is how ASP.NET MVC matches a URI to an Action within a Controller. In the unlikely case you don't know …

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ASP.NET C# - How to convert Office files to PDF using SyncFusion File Formats & Essential Studio A great third-party alternative to Office.Interop to programmatically create PDF out of MS Office Word, Excel and/or Powerpoint files

August 11, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

A few months ago I've written a post here explaining how to programmatically convert MS Word DOC and DOCX files to PDF in ASP.NET C# using the Microsoft Office primary interop …

System.Web.HttpException (0x80004005): The application is configured to issue secure cookies - Cause e soluzioni del problema

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ASP.NET C# - The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm - How to fix it How to fix the "System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm" error by properly configuring the TLS 1.1 & TLS 1.2 cryptographic protocols

July 20, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 8 Comments.

If you've stumbled upon this post, it probably means that you're struggling against a nasty issue affecting one or more of your Web Application Projects when you publish it to …

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AESCrypt - AES 128 / AES 192 / AES 256 Class for ASP.NET C# with advanced settings Yet Another AES-Rijndael cryptographic class for ASP.NET C# to easily handle basic and advanced crypto tasks using 128, 192 and 256 Key Length and a whole lot of custom options & settings: Hash, Padding Mode, Cipher Mode, Salt, IV & more

July 13, 2018July 13, 2018 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

The AES 256 / Rijndael encryption standard had a lot of ASP.NET C# implementations within the past few years: projects like BouncyCastle, SharpAESCrypt and CryptoN, just to name a few of them, are …

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Office Interop DCOM Config on a Windows Server IIS Machine to open Word, Excel and Access files with ASP.NET C# How to setup DCOM Configuration Settings to use Office Interop Word, Excel, and Access with ASP.NET C# on a IIS Windows Server machine

July 9, 2018October 29, 2022 - by Ryan - 12 Comments.

If you've stumbled upon this post you're most likely dealing with the Microsoft Office primary interop assemblies (PIAs), also known as Microsoft.Office.Interop library set. This is a neat collection of …