Welcome to codingfreaks!

Customers are constantly asking me about my sight on Microsoft Azure. They and many others are also constantly confused about some peculiar stuff Azure does different from other cloud environments. Let me explain how me and my co-workers approach this.

Microsoft released a preview version of the new sudo command in Windows Insider Preview

Trying out Azure P2S VPN I recently stumbled upon a problem. Looking up hostnames with nslookup failed with Windows but worked on Linux, MacOS and even WSL2. Read this to understand what happened, if you like to see the setup of P2S VPN and if you are interested in the fix.

Console Apps are considered unimportant nowadays. I want to show why they are not IMHO and how to approach them after the latest C# updates.

If you remove an identity from Azure AD which had a role assignment to one of your resources the assignment will stay on the resource in a stale state. In this article I'll show how to remove those entries using PowerShell.

It's easy to create a Github action to enable CI/CD for projects hosted on Github. The problem is that the documentation leads into a bad direction for doing it. This post explains why and how to do it right.

When you try to manage your AAD B2C tenant from the console you face the problem that you cannot set a subscription context. In this post I show how you still can connect and what commands might be useful.

How to use a simple PowerShell script to set the advanced security privileges of a file conveniently.

Today I switched the complete CI/CD from Azure DevOps to Github Actions. Let by explain why and how I did it.

Disclaimer #OPINIATED #ANGRY-MOOD #DIDNT-THOUGHT-MUCH-ABOUT-IT I know that it is always pretty lame to lament about the work of other people…

Today I had the problem that my UWP application would not build on an Azure DevOps hosted pipeline. This article shows how I fixed the problem and what I learned.

Lastly I stumpled over an announcement on an upcoming feature of Azure Storeage called 'Blob Index'. After some curious experiments I want to share my first experiences with you.

Generating PDFs is a common task in many solutions. Nethertheless it's the one task which is not easilly accompished in all environments. I'll show how to perform common tasks in .NET Core using IronPdf. I also will point out some limitations. Additionally I'll show some more advanced techniques like Handlebars.NET.

I always was interested how to version a REST API correctly in ASP.NET Core. In this article I'll show how I realized it including Swagger.

I finally decided to do things differently. Let me explain what has changed, where you can find the old stuff and why this is in English now.