I recently needed to investigate a DLL version incompatibility on a Windows Server. I needed the Gacutil utility to check which version of an assembly was installed in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC). The problem was that there were no development tools installed on the server. Instead of installing the complete development environment, I decided […] Read more»
If you rely on default values in Power Automate’s Initialize variable action, watch out—it can occasionally fail without throwing an explicit syntax error. Read more»
Microsoft pitch Power Apps and Power Automate as the natural successors to InfoPath – but can they actually get the job done? Historically, InfoPath allowed developers to inject custom C# or VB code, a feature they heavily relied on. A common corporate scenario went like this: a manager with a basic understanding of development would […] Read more»
Have you ever looked at your Hyper-V storage folder and realized a single virtual machine is consuming way more space than it should? I recently ran into this scenario with a Windows Server VM running SharePoint 2019. When inspecting the storage, I noticed that there were 3 separate virtual disks assigned to this single machine: Read more»
It took me almost three years to find out why my laptop always had Wi-Fi connection issues with Azure and Microsoft services. Honestly, this piece of garbage software pushed me to my absolute limit. Read more»
Many advertisements say something like “Only pay for what you use!” It sound like you can make your small app free of charge, but something can always go wrong. As I recently learned the hard way, serverless doesn’t always mean cheap. In fact, under the right conditions, it can be a massive budget burner. Here […] Read more»
I – and I think many other people – often use VS Code for code formatting. You can easily format a selected block of text by pressing Ctrl + K, Ctrl + F, or format the entire file using Shift + Alt + F. But how do you do the exact opposite? Read more»
If you see the message “Please wait for printer connection or cancel” when trying to print in Windows 11, Windows is usually attempting to select what it thinks is the most suitable printer automatically. This often happens when you use network printers. Read more»
The size of the file C:\Users\Realdevtipsuser\AppData\Local\Docker\wsl\data\ext4.vhdx was 51 GB. I couldn’t determine who was using that file or why. Since “Docker” was in the path, it made sense to check Docker settings. And I found the answer: Docker Desktop uses WSL2 storage. Read more»
When I decided to add an Azure Function project to the solution, I found out that I can not create Azure Function with Net 10.0 in Visual Studio 2026. I installed this version only because of Net 10! What to do? Read more»
