Christoph Weigert

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

Visual Studio

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 again. at Mono.

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

CI/CD

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

CI/CD

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

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

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'.

Career Development

Goals for 2019

Since the turn of the year I had some time to reflect on the last 12 months and how 2019 can be even better. This is a great time of the year to look ahead to the rest of the year and set goals for my life, my career, family matters and health.

Career Development

2018 Year in Review

The years go by, and I would like to take a look back and reflect on the past 365 days of 2018.

Personal

Here we go! Happy new year!

I'm Christoph and here we go. This is my first blog post. After reading so many great blogs, I wanted to start my technology blog. So here can you read more about me.