You might be about to run your application and suddenly you are getting ‘System.BadImageFormatException’. This is what I got when running a new application that I didn’t build. It took me a little bit to figure out what the issue was, but as below, the culprit was found and also some other interesting configurations required.ContinueContinue reading “BadImageFormatException When Running 32/64 Bit Applications in Visual Studio”
Category Archives: ServerSide Code
Microsoft Graph Client ClientCredentialProvider not Recognised
So you have downloaded the latest version of the Graph Nuget Package and your dotnet core application is all ready to start building with the Microsoft Graph Client SDK. However, when you create the client as per the documentation, Visual Studio is complaining it can’t find the ClientCredentialProvider. This is because it required the MicrosoftContinueContinue reading “Microsoft Graph Client ClientCredentialProvider not Recognised”
How I split a row by columns in MS SQL
Sometimes we just want to spit the rows in a table by the columns values because that is what SQL is for. This is no easy task depending on your data structure and lead to some complex queries. So here is the road to how to separate the columns data into each row that IContinueContinue reading “How I split a row by columns in MS SQL”
How to authenticate with Fortify Security with PowerShell
Fortify, a security scanning tool for code, has some great features but also some limiting features. Therefore I sought to use their open REST API to expand on its functionality to enhance how we are using it within the DevOps pipeline. This was of course step one to find how to authenticate with Fortify toContinueContinue reading “How to authenticate with Fortify Security with PowerShell”
Setting Bearer tokens in PowerShell
This is a quick post to put out how to set a Bearer Token using PowerShell for Invoke-RestMethod and Invoke-WebRequest as it was something I could not find a clear explaining post.
AppDynamics grouping Database Custom Metric Queries
When you create Custom Database Metrics in AppDynamics, you first thought is to create a new row for each metric, but if you have a lot to report on this can become messy. Not only that but in the metric view you will have a very long list of reports to go through. Therefore when we had the consultant down at work, we was shown how to group collections of metrics in one query, which then shows in the metric view in a sub folder. This tactic, we could not find anywhere on the internet, so I thought I would share this very handle insight for AppDynamics.
What do you consider when building a new application?
When you’re starting a new project and thinking about what you’re going to use in your application, what factors do you consider? Sometimes this depends on what your role is, so a develop will jump straight in with just use X coding language and continue on their way. Whereas other might want to play with whatever the new and latest technology is. Then there is people like myself that likes to think about the whole picture, and so here are some of the key factors I consider when building a new application.
How to setup AppDynamics for multiple .Net Core 2.0 applications
We have decided to go with App Dynamics to do monitoring on our infrastructure and code, which is great and even better they have released support for .Net Core 2.0. However when working with their product and consultant we found an issue with monitoring multiple .Net Core instances on one server, plus with console apps, but we found a way.
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