Tuesday, 24 November 2020

Move To iOS - transfer interrupted problem

A common problem described on the reviews of the "Move to iOS" app is that people are being constantly disconnected when transferring files and settings.

FIXED THE TRANSFER INTERRUPTED PROBLEM

What is happening is your Android connects to a local hotspot created on the iPhone. You will notice that the Wifi indicator on the Android has an exclamation mark. This is because it detects it cannot reach the internet, so it disconnects and tries your home LAN again.


Go to Network Settings and FORGET YOUR EXISTING WIFI connections so it cannot reconnect to your home wifi. Then it is forced to stay on the iPhone hotspot.

Sunday, 8 November 2020

Git Settings

Git Difftool with Beyond Compare 3

git config --global diff.tool bc

git config --global difftool.bc.path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 3\BComp.exe"

git config --global difftool.prompt false

git config --global merge.tool bc

git config --global mergetool.bc.path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 3\BComp.exe"

git config --global alias.mydiff "difftool --dir-diff --tool=bc --no-prompt"

Git Difftool with Beyond Compare 3 - Linux

git config --global diff.tool bc

git config --global difftool.bc.path '/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Beyond Compare 3/BComp.exe'

git config --global difftool.prompt false

git config --global merge.tool bc

git config --global mergetool.bc.path '/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Beyond Compare 3/BComp.exe'

git config --global alias.mydiff "difftool --dir-diff --tool=bc --no-prompt"

Git Difftool with Beyond Compare 3 - WSL2

nano ~/.gitconfig

[difftool "bc"]
        cmd = '/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Beyond Compare 3/BComp.exe'   \"$(wslpath -aw $LOCAL)\" \"$(wslpath -aw $REMOTE)\"
        trustExitCode = true

Stack Overflow

Carriage return line feeds

Resolved: Git warning LF will be replaced by CRLF in file | vGeek - Tales from real IT system Administration environment (vcloud-lab.com)

Windows uses CRLF (\r\n) whereas Linux and MacOS just use line feed (\n).

You can turn off warnings with

git config core.autocrlf true


Wednesday, 28 October 2020

Search filters for Outlook Web

 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/learn-to-narrow-your-search-criteria-for-better-searches-in-outlook-d824d1e9-a255-4c8a-8553-276fb895a8da

Thursday, 22 October 2020

VSIX install location

 Custom VSIX extensions are saved to


%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\[Version]\Extensions

Saturday, 5 September 2020

The history of the Service Bus SDK

 An interesting article on the history of the Service Bus SDK:


https://weblogs.asp.net/sfeldman/the-future-of-asb-dotnet-sdk


Tuesday, 18 August 2020

VPN passthrough on Virgin Media Superhub 3.0

 I upgraded to the Virgin Media Superhub 3.0 and discovered VPN passthrough was not working.

The solution was to put it into cable modem mode.

Friday, 31 July 2020

.NET Core doesn't work on a Pi Zero

.NET Core doesn't work on a Pi Zero. The Pi Zero is armv6 whereas .NET core supports amrv7. The Pi Zero uses the Thumb instruction set (16 bits rather than the normal ARM 32 bit) which the Core CLR JIT compiler does not support.