PHP on IIS was something Microsoft promoted with lots of efforts. Tools like PHP Manager for IIS do help attract users. Even I wrote about it in 2011. However, time flies, and it is now time to say...
What Should You Check When Visual Studio Cannot Debug ASP.NET Core Projects
Debugging is very important a process for developers to learn more about the development environment and the code base. So frustration can be a lot if suddenly your development tool fails to debug....
PHP Diagnostics for IIS and IIS Express Users
Jexus Manager already has many diagnostics wizards for different purposes, SSL Diagnostics, to match the original Microsoft tool developed for IIS 6. Visual Studio Project Diagnostics, to sho...
Update on Offline Publishing ASP.NET Core Apps
I blogged about how to publish an ASP.NET Core app against an internal NuGet server. A few days ago, Microsoft happened to ship a new release of 2.0.6. Then what kind of things are needed to upgra...
What Tool to Write reStructuredText? The War Is Over
I started to develop the reStructuredText extension for Visual Studio Code in November 2015. Sublime Text and Atom were more popular editors back then, and they have reStructuredText support. ...
Make Obfuscar A Global Tool in.NET Core
In the past it is hard to distribute command line utilities for developers. For example, when I started to work on Obfuscar, there was hardly a way to release the tool to end users and provide a si...
Behind The Scene of .NET Core Global Tools
I just blogged about how I made Obfuscar a Global Tool, and in this post I tried to reveal the technical details behind the scene. First, the project file can be found at GitHub, which looks pret...
Binding Diagnostics for IIS and IIS Express Users
The complexity of IIS makes it difficult to learn (nginx and Apache are not exceptionally easy either). So many web developers (ASP.NET or not) can find it hard to understand certain concepts, and ...