Steve Croxford

Heading to the Clouds

ASP.NET Core Featured

Using Span and ArrayPool to save £200k+ a year

As the title suggests, this post is going to cover the success we've had in adopting the usage of Span / Memory and ArrayPool in one of our core libraries which is used extensively across our systems.

.Net Featured

Sticking with Spans for JsonConverter<bool>

Using Span<T> in custom JsonConverter

asp.net 5.0 Featured

Blazor WASM Identity: There was an error trying to log you in: 'No account to get tokens for.'

Clearly I'm capable of making mistakes no other person has thought of!

ASP.NET Core

IoT with Blazor on Raspberry Pi Part 5 - DHT Sensor

Hopefully, you read Part 4 [https://codedbeard.com/iot-with-blazor-on-raspberry-pi-part-4/] of this series and thus have SignalR distributing the LED status, congrats! Now that we have set up a method of sending switching commands to an LED let's wrap up by reading data from a DHT11 sensor. Update View

ASP.NET Core

IoT with Blazor on Raspberry Pi Part 4 - SignalR

Hopefully, you read Part 3 [https://codedbeard.com/iot-with-blazor-on-raspberry-pi-part-3/] of this series and thus have a basic LED under your control, congrats! Add SignalR Extensions To ensure we can write everything in C#, add a reference to the Client project for the Blazor.Extensions.SignalR package: <PackageReference Include="

ASP.NET Core

IoT with Blazor on Raspberry Pi Part 3 - the Code

Hopefully, you read Part 2 [https://codedbeard.com/iot-with-blazor-on-raspberry-pi-part-2/] of this series and thus have everything installed and ready to go, congrats! Create the project From your SSH enabled VSCode, let's start by creating the project. First off we create a folder for the project, then switch to

ASP.NET Core

IoT with Blazor on Raspberry Pi Part 2 - Lets get Setup

Hopefully, you read Part 1 [https://codedbeard.com/iot-with-blazor-on-raspberry-pi/] of this series and thus acquired the requisite bits, congrats! Get your Raspbian image Firstly, you are going to need an OS to run on your Pi. In this example, I'm using the latest official Raspbian image [https://www.

ASP.NET Core

IoT with Blazor on Raspberry Pi Part 1 - the KIT

I have a confession to make..... I love .NET Core. You might even call it a sort of obsession. Whilst I have programmed in many languages over the years (C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Rust, Python etc) and used many runtimes, C# and .NET have a special place in my heart.

Azure

Application gateway is in a failed state.

While trying some different routing rules on our test cluster (thankfully!).... the portal bites me in the backside once again!

Server 2003 to Service Fabric: Reflections on a modernisation journey

It's been over a year since my last ramblings! During that time there have been many stories I've wanted to share, but due to the workload of migrating hundreds of systems (across thousands of servers) to run in Azure before a hard deadline, I simply didn&

Nano Server

Using Nano Server to run WAMP

After a long stint of upgrading domain controllers and fixing print servers, I've finally had the chance to do something remotely interesting. I discovered a server running WAMP [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WampServer] for a Piwigo [http://piwigo.org/] install, which I quickly decided was a great

PowerShell

Windows 7 stuck identifying network

We've recently been deploying a new backup agent to various machines. The engineer doing the deployment reported to me, that around 40 of the 140 Windows 7 machines, which act as print servers, were refusing the backup agents connections. First I checked the Group Policies, and ensured the

PowerShell

Quickly find all IIS servers on the network with PowerShell

Have you ever needed to audit thousands of servers, to find which ones are running IIS? If you have, you've probably discovered it's horribly slow using Get-Service inside a foreach statment, just like I did. You will likely also find, that by attempting to filter out

PowerShell

Deploy and configure Azure OMS agent with PowerShell

I've been using Azure Operations Manager Suite since it first appeared, and have been fairly impressed. I recently needed to deploy the agent to around 50 domain controllers all running Server 2008 R2, and with no working deployment solution at my new place of employment, I decided to

FRS

Confirm SYSVOL inconsistencies with PowerShell

Oh what a wonderful time it was, not having to deal with Server 2003, but thanks to a career change, I find myself once again with the joys of inconsistent SYSVOL replication thanks to FRS. Everything is fine! or is it? So I start working for a company, and I&

SharePoint

Migrating from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2016

Well it's been almost 6 months since my last post, and while there were many things I would have liked to share, my workload simply hasn't allowed the time. Where has the time gone If your reading this post, then I guess it's safe

asp.net 5.0

ASP.NET 5.0 Beta 7 deploy to local IIS

Beta 7 is fresh off the press, full of shiny new features to investigate. As my previous post regarding IIS deployment still gets a lot of views, and much has changed in the 9 months since I wrote it, I thought a quick update was in order. Get the bits#

Visual Studio 2015

TFS/RM 2015 and SharePoint 2010

Now that all the components are RTM, I thought I would put up a post about how I'm using the new build and release systems present in 2015, to deploy successful builds to our QAT environment. Background This isn't the first time we have tried to

Windows 10

Win 10 build 10130 Hyper-v adapter issue

I've been using the Win10 insider builds since the first release, and have generally been surprised by how stable it has been for everyday use. I use Hyper-V extensively on my main Workstation, and was greeted with a lovely problem when I arrived at work this morning, 10130

Getting Started

Deploying Nano Server

I've been at Microsoft Ignite all week, and despite Nano being released with Server TP 2 a few days ago, I hadn't yet had a chance to try it out, partially due to the sheer amount I've had to take in, but also due

asp.net 5.0

VS2015 CTP6 web debug exits code 0

I'm in the process of prototyping an internal mobile app and backend services, built using ASP.NET 5.0, SignalR 3.0 and Tools for Apache Cordova. I've been having issues launching an small MVC project using the in-built Visual Studio debug profile for web, this

asp.net 5.0

ASP.NET 5.0 deploy to local IIS *Update or Azure website

this post is now outdated, a more up-to-date version can be found here [https://codedbeard.com/asp-net-5-0-beta-7-deploy-to-local-iis/] I've been playing with the next version of ASP.NET, converting a LOB web app to gauge the benefits, and so far I really like what I have seen. Despite how

Azure

"The Server is not operational" for Azure hosted DC

Fun with routing So if you spotted my previous post regarding rebuilding my Azure enviroment to get access to the D series VM's, you will likely have noticed that I all went rather smoothly, well today we found a rather obscure issue. While browsing the SharePoint sites was

Azure

Azure from early A series VM to D

The problem Over the past year, I've been gradually moving a large, heavily customised SharePoint environment to Azure. While everything has gone pretty smoothly on the Azure side, as we approached the go live date I ran various Load tests and came across an issue. Users were experiencing