In a time of transition form .NET framework to .NET core, you might run into issues, which you never ha before. This is the price for open source. For example, look at following error: error APPX1706: The .winmd file 'Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract.winmd' contains type 'Windows.Networking...
Science we started with .NET Core and UAP (Universal Application Platform) we complained very often about unexpected errors, which we simply couldn’t understand. One of my favorites is this one: Microsoft.NETCore.Portable.Compatibility 1.0.0 provides a compile-time reference assembly for mscorlib on...
When working with NUGET in big projects (just a bit bigger than default hello-world) you might run into following issue: Could not load file or assembly ‘…’ The prominent of this error example is : Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=4.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken...
When working with “async” I figured out, that during refactoring process in development of components statistically “async” can often and implicitly happen. That means, that small changes in method signatures can cause changing of “async” behavior. Mostly developers should and aware of...
.NET x86 JIT-er, was originally optimized to produce code quickly so that the program starts up fast. However at that point of time x64 architecture was mostly used for server, because it was just expensive. Because of that .NET 64-bit JIT-er was originally designed to produce efficient code throughout...
When working with async you will probable immediately notice that async programming is much easier then before. Unfortunately after a while you might notice, that that some things like ExecptionHandling are night mare now. In fact “ difficult things became easier, but easy things evaluated to more complicated...
As probably known the cloud messaging platform in Windows Azure is based on Service Bus technology. Few months ago Microsoft has published the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 which provided the same API for Windows RT. Unfortunately this library has been deprecated. The new WinRT library for Service...
After lot of discussions with many experts, I was surprised that (almost) no one has noticed that WinRT is not only the runtime for Windows Store Applications. More over WinRT is a layer in Windows which can be used from Sys32 applications. Few months ago, we already started at daenet ’s labs to experiment...
When you start working with WCF on Windows 8 and IIS8, you might run into following problem. HTTP Error 404.3 - Not Found The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the extension configuration. If the page is a script, add a handler. If the file should be downloaded, add a MIME map. To make...
An inside look from the Windows engineering team http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/ The same content in German: Einblicke in die Arbeit des Windows-Entwicklerteams http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8_de/