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The Very Common Mistakes When Using IIS URL Rewrite Module

IIS URL Rewrite module has been a very important addition to the platform, and gives all kinds of possibilities on how you can take full control of the URLs. When proper rules are created and hoste...

Yet Another Official Launch of LeXtudio

I started to use the brand LeXtudio more than a decade ago, when I worked on Code Beautifier Collection, which was a popular Delphi extension in 2005. Figure 1: The last release of Code Beautifi...

Important Update on reStructuredText for VSCode

Figure 1: reStructuredText for VSCode. An image should save me a thousand words, but I rather write a blog post to reveal the biggest changes introduced in the latest releases (67.0.0 and above),...

Everything Good And Horrible About PowerShell Gallery

Microsoft introduced PowerShell Gallery Preview in July 2015, and announced its Public release on February 25, 2016. The idea was cool that everyone can publish useful PowerShell modules/scripts th...

A Closer Look At ASP.NET Core Execution Model

It is very important to know what process hosts your web application when it is running on IIS, as often you need to attach to that process, or troubleshoot issues related to process model. Howev...

Replacing Zapier With Azure Function

I just blogged about that I used Zapier to trigger VSTS build, which works well. And I love it, except It seems to ask for too many permissions (both on VSTS/GitHub sides). Such permissions a...

Self-Hosting Sphinx Sites on Azure App Service

I used to host documentation sites on Read The Docs, and wrote about the details in previous posts. But finally it came to an end, as over the weekend I moved all such sites to my own Azure App Ser...

How to Use Private Repos as Submodules in VSTS

Well, while public repos work perfectly on VSTS, you will find trouble when adding private repos as submodules in your master repo, because passing user credentials in your build pipeline would kil...