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I recently came across a problem with Visual Studio 2026 and the Wispr Flow voice dictation program, to wit Whispr Flow stops working with any part of Visual Studio 2026, or any version of Visual Studio actually. Some googling happened and it seems that if Visual Studio is running as Administrator, and Whispr Flow [ ] The post How to fix problems with Visual Studio 2026 and Whispr Flow appeared…
I recently migrated this blog from its prior position in a subdirectory off of digitaltoolfactory.net to it s own domain name of blog.digitaltoolfactory.net. After a mild amount of sturm and drang I got the main site working, however I was unable to get to the admin. I got an endless array of Too Many Redirects errors [ ] The post How to fix Peculiar WordPress Admin Redirection Problems appeared…
The Setup I was running painfully low on disk space on my C drive and was working with a Visual Studio solution containing 12 projects. A compilation / build got hung up on something, I cancelled the build tried again. That build worked. So far just business as usual. However, I noticed that while I [ ] The post How to fix problems with IIS caching, OWIN authentication, Visual Studio and…
How can you fix the problem of the application pool refusing to start and throwing the error message of The service cannot accept control messages at this time ? Happily all you have to do is to go to task manager and kill the W3WP process then restart the app pool. The post How to fix problems with Application Pools not starting in IIS manager appeared first on Digital Tool Factory blog .
I recently had to start moving my various WordPress sites from the standard App Service to a standard app service on Linux, using NGINX. However, this does not work out of the box. After much googling and experimentation I came across this extremely well written blog post on the topic. Basically just follow those instructions [ ] The post How to run WordPress on Azure App Service Linux with NGINX…
I ve recently fallen madly in love with the PlayWright web testing platform. Seemingly is has all of the strengths of every other testing platform, while being legible, transparent and actually working. However, I was thrown for a week by mystery timeouts, failures and heisenbugs. The culprit happened when I all of the repeatable steps into [ ] The post Remember to await everything in Playwright…
After much sturm and drang I finally found that if you change your build arguements to msbuildArgs: /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:WebPublishMethod=Package /p:PackageAsSingleFile=true /p:SkipInvalidConfigurations=true /p:PackageLocation= $(build.artifactStagingDirectory) /p:AutoParameterizationWebConfigConnectionStrings=false And do the the other tips listed on this blog then the web.config files should…
So you want a step by step guide to deploying web apps to azure web apps from azure devops and changing config files in the release pipelines? Look no further. First create the new web.config files, as seen below In the file properties make sure they are set to Content and Copy Always [ ] The post A quick write up to document web config changes when deploying to azure using release pipelines in…
After much googling, and evening Bing-ing revealed nothing I discovered that for some reason I had the line config.SuppressDefaultHostAuthentication(); In my WebAPIConfig.cs file I removed that and everything magically worked and I could use User.Identity.GetUserId(); The post How to Get the ID of the logged in user in asp.net mvc web api apicontroller appeared first on Digital Tool Factory blog .
So you need to redirect to a dynamic page in TestCafe you say? Try the below const setValue = ClientFunction(() => {var idToUseForRedirection=document.querySelector( input[name= ID ] ).value;document.location.href= https://someurl.com?id= + idToUseForRedirection; }); await setValue(); The post Dynamic page redirects in TestCafe appeared first on Digital Tool Factory blog .