Christoph Weigert

Christoph Weigert

Update the Android SDK for a Visual Studio Build Tools installation

Update the Android SDK for a Visual Studio Build Tools installation

We recently set the Target Framework Version for our mobile app to SDK Version 29. On two of our three build agents, we had no issues because they were regular Visual Studio instances running on developer machines. But one build agent only had the Visual Studio Build Tools installed without

Fix Visual Studio Mono.AndroidTools.RequiresUninstallException

After upgrading to Visual Studio 16.4 I couldn't deploy an older Xamarin.Forms branch to a Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e. Visual Studio could not deploy the App to the device. > ADB1000: Deployment failed Mono.AndroidTools.RequiresUninstallException: The installed package is incompatible. Please manually uninstall and try

Reuse EDMX files with .NET Core or .NET Standard 2.1

Reuse EDMX files with .NET Core or .NET Standard 2.1

If you previously an EDMX file for your database first model generation you are left out for .NET Standard or .NET Core Support. But there is at least a workaround that you can use to target .NET Standard 2.1 or .NET Core Apps with 3.0 or newer. You

Move self-hosted Octopus Deploy to Cloud

After running Octopus Deploy server on our dedicated hardware behind our corporate firewall, we had some limitations with the upload bandwidth, and we wanted to avoid managing the server ourselves. We know that we would have to increase the Tentacles because, in one project, most customers require the software to

Deploy it right! Use tools to automate Integration and Delivery

Deploy it right! Use tools to automate Integration and Delivery

How often did you right click in your solution and hit deploy? How often did your colleagues asked you what they have to do when deploying? Automate it! Simply as that.

Protect your local data with BitLocker

Protect your local data with BitLocker

BitLocker is a feature that allows you to encrypt your hard disk. You should enable this feature to prevent unauthorized access to your private data.

Visual Studio: Could not load file or assembly sqlmgmt.dll Analysis Services Processing Task

Today I wanted to deploy an multidimensional Analysis Services Solution to our test server, but Visual Studio crashed right after loading the Processing Task User Interface. The exception was: 'Could not load file or assembly sqlmgmt.dll Analysis Services Processing Task'.