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Migrating Jexus Manager to .NET Core 3.0

Microsoft shipped .NET Core 3.0 Preview 1 with Windows Forms and WPF support. So immediately I started to migrate Jexus Manager to this new platform. A few hours ago Jexus Manager 13.0.0 Preview 1 ...

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Locate MSBuild via PowerShell on Different Operating Systems

Today, PowerShell is a cross platform scripting engine, while MSBuild is also a cross platform build engine. Then how can we use PowerShell to locate MSBuild and compile the source code? You might ...

IX509Enrollment::InstallResponses Method Failed on Windows Server 2016

This is only a quick post on a recent issue I met, that the COM API of Certenroll.h failed miserably on Windows Server 2016, with an error code of “0x80071771” (The specified file could not be encr...

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VSCode reStructuredText Extension, Synchronized Preview Support

I just shipped the 81.0.0 release of this extension. As it is worth a blog post, you can see how big the changes are there. Summary on Improvements First, a Microsoft guy approached me and infor...

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A Test Page for IIS CPU Throttling

IIS has a feature of CPU throttling so that you can better control how to respond when a web app uses too much CPU resource. The detailed settings are fully explored in this page. However, neither...

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Shifting to Azure App Service on Linux

Microsoft Azure was built upon Windows and IIS in its early days, which is not surprising. At that time, IIS 7 was shipped with PHP support, and had the capabilities to enable ASP.NET/PHP apps. Lat...

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New Screenshot of Jexus Manager

The screenshot used in Jexus Manager homepage and documentation has just been replaced by the one above. It is time to use this new version, as many important changes are reflected. Firstly, the ...

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My Understanding of The Visual Studio 2017/2019 Announcements

Visual Studio 2017 is a very important Visual Studio release, not only because that it delivers many unique features, but also the way it is delivered. If you read the Release Rhythm article above...