Author: Enrico

My greatest passion is technology. I am interested in multiple fields and I have a lot of experience in software design and development. I started professional development when I was 6 years. Today I am a strong full-stack .NET developer (C#, Xamarin, Azure)

Are Windows 10 Control Panel’s days numbered?

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Ever since the Windows 8 days, Microsoft has had two settings apps built into Windows. A modern Settings app, and a legacy settings app known as Control Panel. Microsoft has been slowly working to replace the legacy Control Panel with the modern Settings app on Windows 10, but as Windows Control Panel has been part of the OS for decades, transferring all those settings to the new app takes a lot of time. It’s been five years, and that process still isn’t done. With that said, the latest Windows Insider builds of…

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Getting started with GitHub Sponsors

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Are you interested in GitHub Sponsors but don’t know where to start? Do you have questions about whether you should sign up as an individual or as an organization? This guide walks you through several ways you can start pursuing funding for your open source work. We’ll cover how to sign up and receive funds, as an: Individual  Organization with a bank account Organization without a bank account And we’ll review a few other topics on how to: Display your Sponsors profile or external funding links with a button on your project Add sponsor…

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Microsoft warns of Windows zero-day exploited in the wild

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Hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows 7 OS to take over systems, Microsoft said in a security alert today. The zero-day is located in the Adobe Type Manager Library (atmfd.dll), a library that Microsoft uses to render PostScript Type 1 fonts inside multiple versions of the Windows OS. Microsoft says there are two remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in this built-in library that allow attackers to run code on a user’s system and take actions on their behalf. “There are multiple ways an attacker could exploit the vulnerability, such…

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Windows Subsystem for Linux is making inroads with developers

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Last week, Microsoft and Canonical (the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution) were scheduled to host a developer conference focused on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) at Microsoft’s Redmond campus. Ars was invited, and I had plane tickets in hand—but the physical conference was canceled at the last minute due to the coronavirus. Note that I did say the physical conference was canceled—WSLconf itself went on, with 22 speakers and 21 talks given. Virtual attendees were reportedly more than double the (sold out) physical attendee registration and included developers…

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Facebook is moving to Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code for internal development

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Facebook is adopting Visual Studio Code for all of its software engineers, and is currently in the process of finishing the migration from its mix of Nuclide and Emacs for internal development. As part of the partnership with Microsoft, the company will also help improve remote development extensions, which is ultimately going to benefit many more developers around the world.

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Amazon’s own Echo Buds may have revealed a future fitness tracking feature

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Amazon’s truly wireless Echo Buds earbuds are excellent for their $130 price, to the point that they were the elephant in the room when we reviewed Apple’s new AirPods Pro. And they managed that resounding feat without one of their biggest rumored features — the ability to double as a fitness tracker and measure the calories you’ve burned. But don’t rule out fitness tracking just yet, because CNBC and The Verge both spotted a new “Fitness” tab in the Echo Buds section of the Alexa app today. You can see…

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Xamarin build error: defining a default interface method requires –min-sdk-version >= 24

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I added to my project Xam.Plugins.Android.ExoPlayer and then I received this error: java/lang/Object;I)V: defining a default interface method requires –min-sdk-version >= 24 (currently 13) for interface methods: com.google.android.exoplayer2.Player$EventListener.onTimelineChanged : (Lcom/google/android/exoplayer2/Timeline;Ljava/lang/Object;I)V Looking around, I discovered that other people had the same issue and the problem sits in the Android Options in Project Properties. No Dex compiler was specified, select D8 Dex compiler in the Android project properties: In code: <AndroidDexTool>d8</AndroidDexTool> Happy coding!

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Accessing the OIDC tokens in ASP.NET Core 2.0

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In ASP.NET Core 1.1 So, for example, in ASP.NET Core 1.x, if you wanted to access the tokens (id_token, access_token and refresh_token) from your application, you could set the SaveTokens property when registering the OIDC middleware: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 // Inside your Configure method app.UseOpenIdConnectAuthentication(new OpenIdConnectOptions(“Auth0”) {     // Set all your OIDC options…     // and then set SaveTokens to save tokens to the AuthenticationProperties     SaveTokens = true }); You would then subsequently be able to retrieve those tokens by calling GetAuthenticateInfoAsync inside your controllers, and…

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Microsoft’s Chromium Edge browser is now officially available to test

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Microsoft is making its Chromium-powered Edge browser available to developers today. The software giant is releasing its Canary and Developer builds, offering daily or weekly updates to the changes that are coming to Edge. Both downloads are available on Microsoft’s new Edge insider site, and they are designed for developers to get an early look at how Edge is changing. Microsoft has focused on the fundamentals of browsing, reliability, and extension support for this early version of Edge built on Chromium, and the company is looking for feedback about the…

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Using dependency injection in a .Net Core console application

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One of the key features of ASP.NET Core is baked in dependency injection. Whether you choose to use the built in container or a third party container will likely come down to whether the built in container is powerful enough for your given project. For small projects it may be fine, but if you need convention based registration, logging/debugging tools, or more esoteric approaches like property injection, then you’ll need to look elsewhere. Why use the built-in container? One question that’s come up a few times, is whether you can…

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The Windows 3.0 File Manager is now available in the Microsoft Store

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Microsoft open sourced the original File Manager that shipped with Windows 3.0, allowing users to make changes and if they want, compile it for use on Windows 10. Now, the firm is making it easier to run the legacy app, as it’s offering the Windows 3.0 File Manager through the Microsoft Store (via Aggiornamenti Lumia) as a UWP app. The app is listed as being available on PC, mobile, Surface Hub, and HoloLens; however, it also requires the device to be installed on Windows 10 build 16299 or newer. Obviously,…

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Latest Windows 10 build puts desktop apps in a 3D world

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Microsoft has released a new Insider preview build of Windows 10. Build 18329 should be available now to most people who have opted into the fast preview ring. Though it’s not available to everyone because, for some reason, the new build isn’t available in all the languages it’d normally be shipped in. The strangest new feature is that you can now launch and run regular Win32 apps—2D apps built for the desktop—in the Windows Mixed Reality environment that’s used for both virtual reality headsets and the HoloLens augmented reality headset.…

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Lifetime Managers in Unity Container

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The unity container manages the lifetime of objects of all the dependencies that it resolves using lifetime managers. Unity container includes different lifetime managers for different purposes. You can specify lifetime manager in RegisterType() method at the time of registering type-mapping. For example, the following code snippet shows registering a type-mapping with TransientLifetimeManager. var container = new UnityContainer() .RegisterType<ICar, BMW>(new TransientLifetimeManager()); The following table lists all the lifetime managers: Lifetime Manager Description TransientLifetimeManager Creates a new object of requested type every time you call Resolve or ResolveAll method. ContainerControlledLifetimeManager Creates…

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ARM \ Logic App Deployment with Azure DevOps

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Microsoft’s documentation refers to Logic Apps as being iPaaS or integration Platform-as-a-Service. The “i” in iPaaS indicates the strength of Logic Apps; not only are Azure systems integrated but external and third-party systems can be included in your Logic Apps, including Twitter, Slack, Office 365, and many others. This integration is done using a set of Microsoft-provided connectors. However, if a connector does not exist, then you can still integrate your logic app to external systems via their APIs. Go to the Azure portal https://portal.azure.com and create the logic app.…

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Azure WebJobs API

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This API is accessed the same way as the git endpoint. e.g. if your git URL is https://yoursite.scm.azurewebsites.net/yoursite.git, then the API to get the list of deployments will be https://yoursite.scm.azurewebsites.net/deployments. The credentials you use are the same as when you git push. See Deployment-credentials for more details. List all web jobs GET /api/webjobs Triggered Jobs List all triggered jobs GET /api/triggeredwebjobs Response [ { name: “jobName”, runCommand: “…\run.cmd”, type: “triggered”, url: “https://…/triggeredwebjobs/jobName”, history_url: “https://…/triggeredwebjobs/jobName/history”, extra_info_url: “https://…/”, scheduler_logs_url: “https://…/vfs/data/jobs/triggered/jobName/job_scheduler.log”, settings: { }, using_sdk: false, latest_run: { id: “20131103120400”, status: “Success”, start_time:…

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Adding an external Microsoft login to IdentityServer4

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Microsoft Authenticator Identity

This article shows how to implement a Microsoft Account as an external provider in an IdentityServer4 project using ASP.NET Core Identity with a SQLite database. Setting up the App Platform for the Microsoft Account To setup the app, login using your Microsoft account and open the My Applications link https://apps.dev.microsoft.com/?mkt=en-gb#/appList Click the Add an app button. Give the application a name and add your email. This app is called microsoft_id4_enrico. After you clicked the create button, you need to generate a new password. Save this somewhere for the application configuration.…

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GitHub now gives free users unlimited private repositories

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GitHub is by far the most popular way to build and share software. That said, one weakness of the platform is that it limits who can create private repositories – that is, software projects that aren’t visible to the broader public, and are shared only with a handful of pre-defined collaborators – to paying users. Fortunately, that’s no longer the case, as GitHub today announced it was giving users of its free plan access to unlimited private repositories. This is great news for GitHub’s users, but there is a caveat,…

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iPhone owners have less than two weeks to replace battery for £25

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Owners of iPhones with failing batteries have 12 days to take advantage of Apple’s out-of-warranty £25 battery swap offer before the price rises to as much as £65. The discounted battery replacement scheme, which applies to the iPhone 6 and newer models, was launched following revelations last year that Apple was intentionally slowing iPhones because of worn batteries. Apple apologised and reduced the cost of its out-of-warranty battery replacements for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, 6S and 6S Plus, SE, 7 and 7 Plus, 8 and 8 Plus and iPhone…

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