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Visual Studio 2017 - How to setup a new Electron project and run a Hello World sample A guide explaining how to create a new Electron Project (or Solution) in Visual Studio 2017 and run the electron-quick-start GitHub project

October 31, 2018October 5, 2020 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

If you are a software developer and you don't know Electron as of today, you definitely should start to gather some info about it. In very short words, Electron - formerly known …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

ASP.NET Core - How to use Role Authorization Filters in a Token-based Auth How to properly implement roles within the ASP.NET Core authorization filters in a Token-based IdentityRole without getting HTTP 401 - Not Authorized errors

September 30, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Today I had to answer to a GitHub issue created by one of my readers who asked me how to properly implement a Role Authorization filter on the controller methods …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Servers & Services / SQL

Entity Framework Core Migrations error - Database already exists - How to fix How to fix the Database already Exists (or Table, or Relation) error that might occur when using Database.Migrate() method by conditionally calling it

September 30, 2018September 30, 2018 - by Ryan - 3 Comments.

Today I was working on my TestMakerFree Angular app, which I used as a sample app for my ASP.NET Core 2 and Angular 5 book: specifically, I was looking for a way …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Graphics

ASP.NET C# Helper Class to merge TIFF files into a single multipage TIFF A small yet useful Helper Class written in C-Sharp that can be used to merge multiple TIFF image files into a single multipage TIFF file

September 6, 2018July 30, 2019 - by Ryan - 7 Comments.

Multipage TIFFs are awesome, aren't them? Well, actually not so much, especially considering the existance of better alternatives such as PDF files. That's precisely why we published a post some …

Coding / JavaScript / Servers & Services / Web / Windows

How to Install React Native on Windows and make it use a specific IP Address A small guide explaining how to install React Native on a Windows 10 machine and choose the right IP Address when you have multiple LANs / Network Interface Cards

September 1, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Do you know React Native? You most likely do, since you found this post. In case you don't, it's a great framework that lets you build native mobile apps using only JavaScript: …

Coding / Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

Security Best Practices for Individual Services and Applications Learn what needs to be done when hardening your application against all sorts of possible attacks in this tutorial by Parth Ghiya, an expert in multiple technologies, including mobile, web, and enterprise.

August 30, 2018August 30, 2018 - by Parth Ghiya - 1 Comment

A microservice architecture shifts around complexity. Instead of having a single and very complicated system, there are a bunch of simple services with complicated interactions. The goal is to make sure that …

Coding / HTML & CSS / JavaScript / PHP

Mantis BT 2.x - Enable row-level coloring just like MantisBT 1.x with a JQuery script A simple yet useful JQuery script to bring back the row-level TR coloring feature of Mantis Bug Tracker 1.x to the new MantisBT 2.x version

August 24, 2018August 24, 2018 - by Ryan - 3 Comments.

If you stumbled upon this post it most likely means that A) you just upgraded your MantisBT from 1.x to 2.x, and B) you don't like the new HTML layout; …

Coding / PHP

Mantis BT CustomContent plugin - add custom PHP, HTML, CSS and JS files in Mantis HTML Layout A lightweight plugin for Mantis Bug Tracker 2.x that allows to insert custom PHP, HTML, CSS and JS content within the default MantisBT HTML theme layout

August 24, 2018August 24, 2018 - by Ryan - 3 Comments.

If you're reading this I guess you already know Mantis Bug Tracker, also known as MantisBT, one of the best open source issue trackers available on the web since eighteen …

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Windows Server - How to Send SMTP Auth E-Mail with PowerShell Using the System.Net.Mail.MailMessage and Net.Mail.SmtpClient .NET Framework objects with PowerShell to send authenticated e-mail messages through a secure SMTP server

August 15, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

A couple of years ago I published an article explaining how to send notification E-Mail messages with PowerShell. I wrote that post to demonstrate how a simple notification script could …

Servers & Services / Web / Windows

Send E-Mail messages with PHP using Authenticated SMTP A brief tutorial explaining how to send e-mail messages with PHP using authenticated SMTP: PHPMailer, SendMail, Fake SendMail and other methods

August 15, 2018May 16, 2019 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

The ability to programmatically send e-mail messages with PHP is a feature used by a large amount of opensource software written using the most famous scripting language on the web: …