Check Installation Determine which version is installed with the command line. According to Microsoft documentation, we need to remove the SDKs and runtimes separately: Pay attention to the difference in installed locations between the Intel Mac vs silicon M series chip. Arm-based mac: /usr/local/share/dotnet/ Intel-based mac: /usr/local/share/dotnet/x64/dotnet/ In this … [Read more...]
How to Solve Intermittent 403 Error in IIS
Symptoms You can load the page just fine, but after going through the pages quickly or by opening several tabs at once, you see a 403 error: 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied. You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied. This is a bit misleading since you might right away think that the you do not have permission to access … [Read more...]
How to Solve MS Office VBA Compile Error UserAuthentication
This is such a persistent issue that hopefully will die down soon. In a corporate world where there are so many legacy systems though, and this comes up more than we want to admit. This happened in one corporation that has one department relies on various macro-enabled Microsoft Word documents to process requests. One morning, one processor encountered a Visual Basic for Applications error in … [Read more...]
How to Enable Font Ligatures in Visual Studio Code
Ligatures are special characters in a font that combine two or more characters into one. For example, if you use a ligatured font, whenever you type != it will become ≠. Aside from the arguments whether using a ligatured font is good or bad thing in your code, here's what you need to do when you want to enable it in Visual Studio Code. For this example, we'll use Cascadia Code (NOT … [Read more...]
Connect New SSRS Server to Old SQL Server with TLS
This was posted just to share an experience of tackling a problem we encountered when we needed to connect an SSRS Server 2016 to an older SQL Server database (Windows Server 2008 R2) and what steps we took to troubleshoot the issue. After all the reports were migrated to the new SSRS server, upon creating a new Data Source, I got an error message something along the line to enter the user id … [Read more...]