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The Challenges to Enable 'Open With Windows Terminal'"

Microsoft have created several interesting open source projects in the past few years, and Windows Terminal is surely one of the most wanted. If you haven’t played yet with it on Windows 10, you m...

Everything You Might Need About IIS Server Header

When testing some requests/responses on IIS with a good utility such as Telerik Fiddler, you might discover much more information than using a browser. Most Common Server Header in Responses So y...

Remote Management of Containerized IIS Instances on Windows Server Core

You might want to run some applications on a Windows Server Core machine for quick testing. Instead of using a full virtual machine, running a Docker container can be easier. But in the meantime, w...

How to Replace BackgroundWorker with Async/Await and Tasks

BackgroundWorker was introduced early in .NET Framework as an easy way to do asynchronous tasks in Windows Forms applications. Though it is WinForms centric and not considered part of the async pat...

How to Install Microsoft CORS Module for IIS Express

Microsoft released an IIS extension called CORS module a while ago, as to better help its customers. Of course, this is their traditional way to shop out-of-band feature for IIS 7 and above. Howev...

How I Set Up Visual Studio Code Remote with Multipass on macOS

Visual Studio Code Remote Development Extension is an excellent idea with easy-to-use user experience. You can easily configure if your target machine is an SSH enabled Linux machine, either physic...

Unpleasant Facts about Hangfire

When people choose to use a framework, they are not only enjoying the benefits it brings, but also take ownership of the evil associated. Hangfire is one of such frameworks, so be caution. The Th...

The Horrible Facts on Visual Studio Setup Projects

Microsoft Windows requires software to be packed as installers so as to install easily for end users. The evolution of Windows leads to various installer technologies to be invented along the way, ...