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This page is all about development in the ever growing eco-system of Microsoft. We'll cover a lot of stuff from Azure, .NET (Core), C# and many more.


Professional Console Apps done right

March 19, 2023  |  English

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.

Script to remove stale role assignments in Azure AD

April 18, 2022  |  English

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.

Github Actions and Azure App Service Deployments

April 17, 2022  |  English

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.

Connect to Azure AD B2C tenant using AzPowershell and az

March 06, 2022  |  English

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.

Better advanced file security on Windows using PowerShell

January 05, 2022  |  English

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

codingfreaks switched to Github Actions

December 12, 2021  |  English

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

What I currently think about Microsoft

November 02, 2021  |  English

Disclaimer I know that it is always pretty lame to lament about the work of other people. I also know that Microsoft as a company is very…

Azure DevOps Build Agent Windows SDK versions

September 08, 2021  |  English

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.

Playing around with Azure Storage Blob Index Preview

June 19, 2020  |  English

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 PDF with .NET Core using IronPdf

June 11, 2020  |  English

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.

API versioning with ASP.NET Core and Swashbuckle

March 31, 2020  |  English

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.

codingfreaks 2.0

March 01, 2020  |  English

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.