Scattered Notes
Stefano Mapelli's weblog
You can now download the May 2019 updated version of the "The Developer’s Guide to Azure" ebook from...
Date: 06/11/2019
Download free the over 300 pages long Apress ebook "Practical Microsoft Azure IaaS: Migrating and...
Date: 06/10/2019
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47 free training courses from LinkedIn Learning, Pluralsight and Microsoft on topics such as web...
Date: 02/19/2019
Want to quickly try your hand at a vast set of Microsoft Azure technologies? Download and read...
Date: 02/19/2019
You can register and download a copy of Patck's "Packt: Principles of Data Science, 2nd edition"...
Date: 02/07/2019
Go here and register to get you copy of Packt's Containerize Your Apps with Docker and Kubernetes...
Date: 02/07/2019
A few days ago an update to my Office 365 Pro Plus removed OneNote 2016 from my company laptop. If...
Date: 11/23/2018
Get your copy of the 5th edition of the C# Language Specification here.
Date: 11/23/2018
Download here your copy of the custom excerpt created especially for Microsoft of the "SQL Server...
Date: 11/21/2018
Download your PDF copy of Packt's "Guide to NoSQL with Azure Cosmos DB" book here.
Date: 11/20/2018
If you want to provide users without Visual Studio installed on their machines with the Excel add-in...
Date: 10/26/2018
I'm starting to put my own head into the vast world of DevOps myself and over the next few months...
Date: 07/23/2018
Download the 300-page Azure architecture e-book to explore best practices, and get access to design...
Date: 07/18/2018
If like me you often jump from a mail item to another mail item or to a calendar item and then you...
Date: 07/16/2018
Another interesting ebook that describes topics very much related to how you would develop a cloud...
Date: 06/28/2018
If Firefox won't work when Fiddler is running declaring that "Your connection is not secure", it is...
Date: 06/28/2018
Following a couple of very interesting ebooks from Packt free for you to download: Azure for...
Date: 06/27/2018
You might have seen that it is possible to customize the ADFS form-based authentication page to...
Date: 12/19/2017
Something that annoys me a lot is that once a wrong or mistyped recipient email address is provided...
Date: 11/01/2017
I recently ran into this problem with my Windows 10 company laptop and instead of doing as Microsoft...
Date: 08/28/2017
Today starting the Windows 10 Store app I discovered that it was failing with a 0x8000FFFF error...
Date: 04/07/2017
Currently there seems to be no offline installer for the newly released Visual Studio 2017 but...
Date: 03/13/2017
If when running Get-Help about_* you see missing helpfiles such as about_Automatic_Variables and all...
Date: 11/18/2016
At times when working with the MSOnline Azure AD powershell module it might useful to know that it...
Date: 11/17/2016
You are a developer and need to understand better the Azure platform? Start from this short pdf...
Date: 11/16/2016
Here is a quick link to download present and past Windows SDKs:...
Date: 11/05/2016
To place a shortcut to a store app (aka universal windows app) on the desktop of your Windows 10 pc...
Date: 09/13/2016
I recently found the tutorialspoint.com website, a technical site with a vast set of great trainings...
Date: 08/16/2016
I wanted to share the following PowerShell script (zipped script also available at the end of the...
Date: 08/10/2016
Following is a list of the latest free ebooks available to you from Microsoft press: Windows 10 IT...
Date: 07/12/2016
A couple of things to remember when releasing a VSTO add-in to production: The certificate used to...
Date: 03/08/2016
Once in a while I scratch and reinstall my laptop as I have done now to migrate to Windows 10 RTM...
Date: 08/05/2015
Out of the box Windows 10 has Trusted Windows Store apps as default programs for numerous file...
Date: 08/05/2015
If when using Fiddler to trace requests and responses to ADFS you keep getting prompted for...
Date: 07/09/2015
ADFS and "The SPN required for this Federation Service is already set on another Active Directory account" error
If while installing ADFS you are facing the "The SPN required for this Federation Service is already...
Date: 07/07/2015
If you are facing the situation where the ADFS 3.0 (Active Directory Federation Services) service...
Date: 07/07/2015
Want to write a Windows Store App or a Windows Phone App? Try out Windows App Studio! In 4 easy...
Date: 10/19/2014
If you are experiencing silent (exception-less) crashes of your application after having implemented...
Date: 05/18/2014
Rush here and get your own copies of a great set of free short PDF ebooks on a vast set of...
Date: 04/20/2014
There is a huge number ebooks that Microsoft is providing for free and that you might be interested...
Date: 11/07/2013
If executing an instruction such as Debugger.Launch() inside a Windows Service (session 0 process)...
Date: 11/07/2013
I believe no serious .NET developer has never faced a System.InvalidOperationException with an error...
Date: 04/27/2011
If you are interested in learning about software development on the new Microsoft Windows Phone 7...
Date: 02/24/2011
Keith Hill has turned a set of blog posts into an interesting 61 pages long PowerShell ebook....
Date: 12/20/2010
If you need to integrate Bing's searching capabilities or Bing Maps into your web site you should...
Date: 10/22/2010
If you are interested in quickly understanding more about Microsoft Expression Studio 4, on this...
Date: 10/22/2010
Are you interested in learning to develop using Microsoft SilverLight and aren't sure where to start...
Date: 10/22/2010
If you are interested in learning about Microsoft SketchFlow, the tool that was first provided as...
Date: 10/22/2010
I gathered a list of leaning resources on Microsoft products, solutions and technologies and then...
Date: 09/28/2010