Recently, I downgraded my Visual Studio 2022 Enterprise installation to Visual Studio 2022 Professional, which worked well, except that I couldn’t compile anything with CMake and couldn’t open most C# projects, as MSBuild was failing with the following cryptic error message: Project.csproj : error : The expression “[MSBuild]::StableStringHash(Project.csproj)” cannot be evaluated. Could not load type […]
Using OpenAPI Client Generators
While working on my Stream Deck plugin for Clockify, I noticed that the API client package I was using, wasn’t up-to-date with the latest version of Clockfiy’s OpenAPI specification. Having played around with Swagger in the past, I thought it should be simple enough to generate a new C# API client from the specs, given […]
T4 Text Transform With the dotnet CLI
The dotnet command line interface (CLI) has been the recommended way to build, test, pack, publish, etc. .NET applications ever since its release. The big advantage is, that the tool is cross-platform and doesn’t depend on Visual Studio. One downside is, that when you run dotnet build on Windows, the dotnet command will use its […]
Referencing GAC Assembly in SDK Project
With the “old” project files, i.e. non-SDK projects, you could reference an assembly and it would automatically be looked up in the GAC (Global Assembly Cache). For SDK projects this was a deliberate breaking change with the reasoning, that the GAC is supposed to be used for runtime resolution and not build-time resolution. This also […]
“Cross-Compilation” with GitHub Actions
In the not so distant past continuous integration (CI) hadn’t been a thing. Today, when you look into the open source world, GitHub Actions or similar offerings are ubiquitously used and that with good reason, one of which being that it’s free. GitHub Actions offer a good selection of OS images out-of-the-box, but sometimes you […]
Prevent MSBuild Execution While Loading a C# Project
MSBuild is a XML-based build system “scripting language” and is the basis of all C# project files, which means, that for an IDE (e.g. Visual Studio or JetBrains Rider) to “understand” your C# project structure, build options, and properties, it has to parse and process all the *.csproj, *.targets, and *.props XML files. The build […]
Microsoft 365 Subscription without Copilot?
In 2023 Microsoft announced Copilot, that is Microsoft version of an integrated AI chatbot, for Microsoft 365, commonly/formerly known as Microsoft Office. My clarifying statements alone would make for its own ranting post on Microsoft software package naming – oh wait, someone else already wrote that. Mid January Microsoft announced that Copilot will be included […]
SFML 3 Release
2024-12-21 marks the date I had the honor of running git tag 3.0.0 on the SFML repository followed by a git push –tags to make it official. SFML 3 has become a reality! After three years of development, while continuing to fix SFML 2.6 and refocusing many times, we’ve managed to release a new major […]
FOSS is Free as in Toilet?
It seems like I can’t stop myself from talking about monetization of FOSS projects and the “demands” that developers are making. After a discussion on software licenses or additional terms to licenses the other day on the Fediverse, I came across this currently unavailable blog post by Geoffroy Couprie. FOSS is free as in toilet […]
Welcome Back Fiber7!
After nearly 10 years, I’m finally back on fiber and with my favorite internet provider Init7! At the end of 2022, a company in service of Swisscom installed fiber connections in the cellar of the building I’m living in. Getting any information on the timeline of the availability was however quite a frustrating journey. I […]