Yes, you can do it… When I work on a feature branch, I like to commit and push often so, some commits are nothing more than indications about the latest status of the feature and so they might not make sense when the feature is ready to be merged into…

When Kestrel works but IIS doesn’t As I am moving more into the web development space i find myself struggling with issues that seasoned web developers can probably solve in seconds. My problem was sneaky: A Web API project was running fine when using Kestrel server but it was failing when hosted inside IIS Express, and the most tricky part was that it was handling the first API invocation properly and others failing with a 404 response. Restarting Visual Studio was making the first request working again and this confused me even more 😲

When Kestrel works but IIS doesn’t… As I am moving more into the web development space i find myself struggling with issues that seasoned web developers can probably solve in seconds. My problem was sneaky: A Web API project was running fine when using Kestrel server but it was failing when hosted inside IIS Express, and the most tricky part was that it was handling the first API invocation properly and others failing with a 404 response. Restarting Visual Studio was making the first request working again and this confused me even more 😲

Sometimes installing PostgreSQL is harder than expected… I need to install PostgreSQL driver and management tools on my machine so i went to PostgreSQL download page, downloaded the x64 installer and launched the installation. Unfortunately the installation was always failing at cluster creation. In order to solve the issue i started inspecting the log file inside Windows Temp folder and i discovered that the issue was coming from this log line

Don’t trust Visual Studio… My goal was to include a different file inside my project depending on selected project configuration, something that MSBuild is able to do using an appropriate Condition applied at item level or, in case of multiple items involved, at ItemGroup level. After adding the two files to…

<rant>Don’t trust Visual Studio…</rant> My goal was to include a different file inside my project depending on selected project configuration, something that MSBuild is able to do using an appropriate Condition applied at item level or, in case of multiple items involved, at ItemGroup level. After adding the two files to…

A couple of solutions to problems I’ve struggled with… I’ve spent all afternoon hitting my head against the desk in order to fix a couple of really weird errors I got with Xamarin that’s why I want to share them here so that you don’t have to do the same. …

Wanna run some platform specific code inside a .NET Standard library? I love writing code, but I don’t like write repetitive and duplicated code so, as soon as code lines starts to increase, I immediately begin thinking about encapsulating them into a method for better readability and further reuse even…

Annoying problem when you create a blank Xamarin Form app for the first time When you create a brand new app from a Visual Studio template normally you expect that, once creation is over, you can just press F5 and compile the app without any issue, in the end, the…