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April 20, 2020Apr 20, 202004/20/20
For some reason, we get lots of reports about DLL planting that basically boil down to this: Program X is susceptible to a DLL planting attack because it loads the DLL TOTALLYSAFE.DLL without a full path. If I put a rogue TOTALLYSAFE.DLL on the system PATH ahead of its actual location, then the rogue copy is loaded into the service, and I h
April 19, 2020Apr 19, 202004/19/20
Dev Consultant Greg Roe shares his tips and tricks for attaining Microsoft Certifications. During the last 12 months, I’ve put a concerted efforted to beefing up my technical chops - I’ve passed 17 Certification Exams. See my LinkedIn profile if you want to see what certs I’ve obtained. I want to share my personal story Tips and T
April 18, 2020Apr 18, 202004/18/20
Premier Field Engineer Gunjan Datta demonstrates how to create content types in SharePoint. This post will give an example of creating content types in SharePoint. The gd-sprest library will use the SharePoint Configuration helper class to create the content types. The gd-sprest SharePoint Code Examples all utilize a configuration file
April 18, 2020Apr 18, 202004/18/20
App Dev Manager Chris Tjoumas provides an update to his previous post on how to setup continuous deployment of a blog using Ghost, Azure Functions, and Azure App Services. In my previous post, I explained how to deploy Ghost on Azure Web Apps; however, Ghost v2.25.5 now requires Node.JS 64-bit to support the sharp package v0.22.1. If y
April 17, 2020Apr 17, 202004/17/20
Keeping up with the latest in .NET, C#, Xamarin, and Azure is easier than ever. Co-hosts Matt Soucoup and James Montemagno cover a range of topics relevant to Xamarin developers from designing mobile apps to identity management. In this month's episode, James and Matt pull out all the stops about authentication and really Focus on Xamarin.
April 17, 2020Apr 17, 202004/17/20
The Portuguese translation for this article is provided by App Dev Manager Julio Madeira. English version available here. O Angular-CLI é a maneira recomendada de criar um aplicativo pronto para produção, completo com agrupamento, atualização e testes. Um Aplicativo desenvolvido com o Angular-CLI vem com um mecanismo para criar ve
April 17, 2020Apr 17, 202004/17/20
Happy Friday! This week we have a few Python-related posts, some .NET Core CI/CD, and PowerShell (for both Azure Boards and Azure DevOps wikis). Enjoy your weekend and some great community reading! Azure Pipelines: Generate release notes using Queries Dimitrios shares his explorations into creating release notes with PowerShell and Azure Boar
April 17, 2020Apr 17, 202004/17/20
A customer wanted to know what, if anything, can be said about the value in the output parameter of the OpenProcessToken function if the call fails. According to the ground rules, the contents of output parameters are unspecified on failure. There is a special rule for COM which says that the contents of output parameters on failure must
April 16, 2020Apr 16, 202004/16/20
Pure Virtual C++ 2020 is a free single-track one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. It is taking place on Thursday 30th April 2020 from 14:30 to 23:00 UTC. Sign up on the event website. All talks will be pre-recorded and streamed on YouTube Live with a live Q&A session with the speakers. After the event, the talks will
April 16, 2020Apr 16, 202004/16/20
Hello Android game developers! Today we've published a Unity sample that incorporates our dual-screen SDK for Android so that you can adapt games for dual-screens and the hinge. The sample code demonstrates how to access the screen and hinge APIs that we provide Android developers, but from C# in Unity. The screenshot below shows a Unity An
