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Oct 26, 2022
in Development
7 min read

SCCM – Parsing Collection Maintenance Windows from C-Sharp

Introduction

This post details how to extract useful information from the SCCM Schedules format.

Oct 4, 2022
in Development
2 min read

C# - Get Display Attribute Value from Enum

Every now and then, I have a use case where decorating an Enum’s values with Attributes comes in handy. Things such as… Adding Display Names, Descriptions, etc.

Well, every time I have this use-case, I have to go google how I did it the previous time… and in most cases, StackOverflow is less then helpful. Then, I remember a few personal projects where I previously did this, and I find the code and reuse it.

Jul 14, 2022
in Development
2 min read

TFS / Azure Devops - Semantic Versioning

I publish nuget packages. Alot of nuget packages.

I don’t have time to maintain nuget package versioning, so, I automatically generate versions based on the date and build number, like so: 2022.07.14.1

As well, I need support for alpha/beta/etc.

So, 2022.07.14.1-alpha.

Here is my method of doing it-

Nov 10, 2021
in Development
3 min read

MicrosoftIdentityWebChallengeUserException: IDW10502

An MsalUiRequiredException was thrown due to a challenge for the user. See https://aka.ms/ms-id-web/ca_inc

Feb 5, 2021
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2 min read

An anonymous request was received in between authentication handshake requests

I was receiving this error while hosting a webapi project on .net 5, using kestrel.

fail: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.Negotiate.NegotiateHandler[5]
      An exception occurred while processing the authentication request.
      System.InvalidOperationException: An anonymous request was received in between authentication handshake requests.
         at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.Negotiate.NegotiateHandler.HandleRequestAsync()
fail: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel[13]
      Connection id "0HM6A34N67LO5", Request id "0HM6A34N67LO5:00000005": An unhandled exception was thrown by the application.
      System.InvalidOperationException: An anonymous request was received in between authentication handshake requests.
         at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.Negotiate.NegotiateHandler.HandleRequestAsync()
         at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.Negotiate.NegotiateHandler.HandleRequestAsync()
         at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.AuthenticationMiddleware.Invoke(HttpContext context)
         at Swashbuckle.AspNetCore.SwaggerUI.SwaggerUIMiddleware.Invoke(HttpContext httpContext)
         at Swashbuckle.AspNetCore.Swagger.SwaggerMiddleware.Invoke(HttpContext httpContext, ISwaggerProvider swaggerProvider)
         at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core.Internal.Http.HttpProtocol.ProcessRequests[TContext](IHttpApplication`1 application)

Nov 7, 2019
in Development
2 min read

Unknown error (0x80005000) – Getting AD Group Members

Earlier today, somebody asked me to help troubleshoot a piece of code which was randomly erroring out- with a very undescriptive exception, only containing Unknown error (0x80005000)

The code in question, was recurring over groups, to gather membership. After ruling out permissions issues, I decided to try and replicate what was happening.

Nov 7, 2019
in Development
2 min read

ASP.NET Core – Links don’t work from office/word document to SSO site.

Here is an unusual issue.

You build a website. Its address is say… https://mywebsite.com/

You email this link to somebody, and it works. You share this link in a chat. it works.

You put this link into a word or excel document, and all of a sudden, you see this:

Oct 7, 2019
in Development
8 min read

c# – Logging Directly to Splunk

This is a portion of my Logging libraries, to allow me to log data to Splunk using the HEC. The data being logged can either be a simple string, or a full-blown object. Code examples are below to also handle exporting Metrics to Splunk.