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ASP.NET Core C# - How to lock an async method according to custom IDs
ASP.NET / C# / Coding

EMail Address Validation in C# and ASP.NET Core A lightweight and customizable helper class to validate any e-mail address using the HTML living standards RegEx and/or ASP.NET Core built-in validators in C#

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Validating an email address is a classic requirement of almost any web application. Most of the modern client-side and server-side web frameworks provide native methods to fulfill this need: however, …

EMail Address Validation in C# and ASP.NET Core A lightweight and customizable helper class to validate any e-mail address using the HTML living standards RegEx and/or ASP.NET Core built-in validators in C# Read More
Linux - Come inviare E-Mail con sSMTP (con configurazioni-tipo per GMail, Aruba e Yahoo)
Hardware / Linux / Operating Systems / Tools & Utilities

Linux - Resize-Extend a disk partition with unallocated space (CentOS, Ubuntu, VM) How to resize/extend a disk partition, logical volume and filesystem of a CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian Linux VM using built-in tools and without the need of a reboot

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Expanding disk partitions to use all the available (unallocated) disk space is a common issue among Linux Administrators, expecially when working in a VMware-based Cloud environment. This often happens when …

Linux - Resize-Extend a disk partition with unallocated space (CentOS, Ubuntu, VM) How to resize/extend a disk partition, logical volume and filesystem of a CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian Linux VM using built-in tools and without the need of a reboot Read More
Exporting & Importing App Pools and Websites configuration between multiple IIS instances
Coding / Tools & Utilities

IIS - IP Address and Domain Restriction Export How to export the IIS IP Address and Domain Restriction settings in a human-readable txt file with PowerShell

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If you're a web administrator and you often work with Internet Information Services (IIS), you most likely already know about the IP Address and Domain Restrictions, a great built-in feature …

IIS - IP Address and Domain Restriction Export How to export the IIS IP Address and Domain Restriction settings in a human-readable txt file with PowerShell Read More
How to check the first commit date of any Git repository
Coding / DevOps

GitHub Error GH001: Large files detected - FIX How to fix a common GH001 GitHub error that doesn't allow the user to push because of files being too big

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If you've stumbled upon this post, there's a high chance that you are dealing with a nasty GitHub bug that can happen when you try to push a commit that …

GitHub Error GH001: Large files detected - FIX How to fix a common GH001 GitHub error that doesn't allow the user to push because of files being too big Read More
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Cloud / Cyber Security / Data Security / Privacy & Compliance / Servers & Services / Tools & Utilities / Web

Office 365 Backup: do we really need it? Office 365 is (mostly) a cloud-based service, but it doesn't mean that your data is automatically safe

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By reading this line, you might be tempted to ask for the following question: "Why should I back up these data? Isn't Microsoft already doing this for me?" As a …

Office 365 Backup: do we really need it? Office 365 is (mostly) a cloud-based service, but it doesn't mean that your data is automatically safe Read More
IIS URL Rewrite: redirect di più nomi di dominio su un singolo hostname
ASP.NET / Coding / Servers & Services / Web

HTTP Error 500.30 - ASP.NET Core app failed to start - Solution How to fix the HTTP Error 500.30 - ASP.NET Core app failed to start when publishing an ASP.NET Core Web Application to IIS

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If you've stumbled upon this post, it most likely means that you've just published a new ASP.NET Core Web Application on a Windows web server using Internet Information Services (IIS) …

HTTP Error 500.30 - ASP.NET Core app failed to start - Solution How to fix the HTTP Error 500.30 - ASP.NET Core app failed to start when publishing an ASP.NET Core Web Application to IIS Read More
The Missing Link: A Beginner's Guide to Building Quality Links
Business innovation / Business processes / Cloud / Coding / Cyber Security / Data Security / Privacy & Compliance / Process management / Servers & Services / Web

Smart Working and IT Security: how to have both A list of tasks to perform to provide Smart Working capabilities to a typical organization while keeping a good security posture

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If there is anything that the COVID-19 pandemic has taught the world, it is the fact that smart working is the future of companies and organizations working in services. A …

Smart Working and IT Security: how to have both A list of tasks to perform to provide Smart Working capabilities to a typical organization while keeping a good security posture Read More
Classe ASP.NET C# per il controllo e il calcolo formale del Codice Fiscale
ASP.NET / C# / Coding

C#: Should we still use #region blocks? My two cents about StyleCop's SA1124 "DoNotUseRegions" rule and why I still (rarely) use #region blocks

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In this post we'll talk about #region blocks, the C# preprocessor directives that let the developer specify a block of code that can be expanded or collapsed when using the …

C#: Should we still use #region blocks? My two cents about StyleCop's SA1124 "DoNotUseRegions" rule and why I still (rarely) use #region blocks Read More
.NET MAUI Multi-Platform Framework explained
Android / Applications / Coding / iOS / Linux / macOS / Tools & Utilities / UI, UX & Layout / Windows

.NET MAUI Multi-Platform Framework explained A brief introduction of .NET MAUI, the new Microsoft cross-platform framework for creating native mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML

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If you're an active mobile app developer you might have already heard of MAUI, the new multi-platform framework announced by Microsoft during the 2020 edition of Build. In this post …

.NET MAUI Multi-Platform Framework explained A brief introduction of .NET MAUI, the new Microsoft cross-platform framework for creating native mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML Read More
How to create a self-signed TLS SSL certificate for Apache or NGINX to accept HTTPS requests on port 443
Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

SSL certificates: how they work, why they matter A short guide explaining how the TLS (Transport Layer Security) cryptographic protocol works and the importance it has to establish secure and verified connections

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This article is a spin-off from a guide that I wrote some time ago to explain how to create a self-signed SSL certificate and its configuration on Apache and / …

SSL certificates: how they work, why they matter A short guide explaining how the TLS (Transport Layer Security) cryptographic protocol works and the importance it has to establish secure and verified connections Read More