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Tomas Bouda blogging about .NET stuff and more

Updating Seq in docker
Updating Seq in docker

Intro Today I want to share quick manual on how to update Seq instance running in doker, to the latest version. What is Seq For those who don’t know, Seq is great server app for collecting log messages. It works well with Serilog which is excelent logging framework from same author. Using these two tools... » read more

Quick Tip: Opening Total Commander from terminal
Quick Tip: Opening Total Commander from terminal

Intro Total Commander provides commandline interface, so in order to open desired folder in Total Commander from Powershell or Windows Terminal you need to run: [crayon-673eda03e13c7938054912/] But who wants to write that long stuff all over again. Solution Solution is, as usual, very simple. You have to add function, to your powershell profile. Keep in... » read more

Protecting email address
Protecting email address

Introduction Sharing email address as a plain text is not the best idea as it can be parsed by web crawlers. Unfortunately our email inboxes get bombarded with spam every day, often because we share our email address on so many places. So why would I make it easier for spamers. I will show you... » read more

Opening SQL Server Configuration Manager
Opening SQL Server Configuration Manager

Solution To Open SQL Server Configuration Manager, run following Path depending on your SQL Server version. Version Path SQL Server 2019 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\SQLServerManager15.msc SQL Server 2017 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\SQLServerManager14.msc SQL Server 2016 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\SQLServerManager13.msc SQL Server 2014 (12.x) C:\Windows\SysWOW64\SQLServerManager12.msc SQL Server 2012 (11.x) C:\Windows\SysWOW64\SQLServerManager11.msc Taken from microsoft documentation You can execute following T-SQL query, to see which SQL Server... » read more

Collapsable menu for GitHub wiki
Collapsable menu for GitHub wiki

Intro If you ever wanted nice looking collapsible side menu on github wiki pages like this: then keep reading 😉 Solution Solution is very simple, you need to use <details> and <summary> tags. See snipped bellow: [crayon-673eda03e1952665420859/] You can see it in action in PoShLog wiki – https://github.com/PoShLog/PoShLog/wiki

Stop GIFs on messenger.com

Intro I’m using mainly messenger.com to chat with my friends, I like sending gifs, it’s fun, but when those gifs keep playing over and over again it’s very distracting and annoying. Ofcourse, one solution to that is to close whole tab or just remove the gif, but these solutions were not ideal for me. I... » read more

App_offline.htm with progress?
App_offline.htm with progress?

Intro So, recently I had to redeploy new ASP.NET Core app few times and I don\’t want the user to stare at some ugly error page. I want something better, some nice page sayng website is under maintenance, and it would be nice if there would be progress of that operation. Solution My first try... » read more

Azure Pipeline for private repository in organization
Azure Pipeline for private repository in organization

About If you need to setup Azure Devops Pipeline for private repository that is under organization then keep reading… How to I had lot of trouble setting up that pipeline, I tryed to setup different Service connections, GitHub connections, but no luck. Azure devops seemed that it’s missing some access rights to see my private... » read more

Fix: Microsoft To-Do 100% disc usage

The problem Recently I noticed that my laptop is still spining up fans like crazy even though I’m just coding or browsing web. So my first steps where obviously into Task Manager. I immediatley spotted that Microsoft To-Do app is constantly spinning up disc at 100%. I thought wtf… so I started googling and eventualy... » read more