Visual Studio 2022

Visual Studio 2022 and NuGet Package Updates: A Silent Bug That Slows Down Development When the Package Manager says “updated,” but your project tells a different story—a real issue reported on Developer Community

March 23, 2025 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

While maintaining a multi-project solution in Visual Studio 2022, I encountered an unexpected and counterintuitive behavior: the NuGet Package Manager UI showed all packages as successfully updated, yet the .csproj …

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How to create a 2D Roguelike in Unity - Part 3 Step-to-step tutorial guide to create a 2D Roguelike videogame in Unity. Part 3: Procedural Generation of Rooms and Dynamic Dungeons

February 17, 2025March 23, 2025 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

We’ve reached the final chapter of our mini-series on how to create a 2D roguelike in Unity, inspired by the open-source project 2DRogueTest. In Part 1, we set up the …

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How to create a 2D Roguelike in Unity - Part 2 Step-to-step tutorial guide to create a 2D Roguelike videogame in Unity. Part 2: Enemies, base AI and Combat System

February 13, 2025March 23, 2025 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Let’s continue our journey in creating a 2D roguelike in Unity. In the first part, we created the project, set up the graphics, and implemented the player movement. Now it’s …

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'Web Server Failed to Start' in Visual Studio 2022: How to Fix A Quick Solution for Socket Authorization Problems in ASP.NET Core on Windows

February 11, 2025February 11, 2025 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you've come across this article, you’re likely looking for a way to resolve the "Web Server failed to start. Cause: An attempt was made to access a socket in …

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How to create a 2D Roguelike in Unity - Part 1 Step-to-step tutorial guide to create a 2D Roguelike videogame in Unity. Part 1: Project Setup, Pixel Art Graphics and Control System

February 10, 2025March 23, 2025 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Who hasn’t dreamed of creating their own video game? Maybe a small dungeon crawler, with a top-down view, a hero moving through dark rooms filled with monsters, and that magical …

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Cannot find compilation library 'System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs' - FIX How to fix the InvalidOperationException: Cannot find compilation library location for package 'System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs' Visual Studio 2022 error

March 18, 2023March 18, 2023 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you've stumbled upon this post, there's a high chance you're experiencing a rather odd Visual Studio 2022 issue which I had to deal with today. I was working on …

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ASP.NET Core Web API - The Book A practical guide explaining how to create fully featured Web APIs with the ASP.NET Core framework using REST and GraphQL - Now available for Early Access!

May 12, 2022August 3, 2022 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Today I'm proud to announce that my future book - ASP.NET Core Web API, which I'm currently writing for Manning Publications - has just reached the MEAP state! In case you …

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.NET MAUI Multi-Platform Framework explained A brief introduction of .NET MAUI, the new Microsoft cross-platform framework for creating native mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML

October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you're an active mobile app developer you might have already heard of MAUI, the new multi-platform framework announced by Microsoft during the 2020 edition of Build. In this post …