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Tidy up - Unused Project and Nuget package reference using Visual Studio 2019

If you are a Developer/Architect using Visual Studio as IDE for your development activities, this blog post will be of your interest. During the Ignite 2021 conference, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 and v16.10 Preview 1. As part of version 16.10 Preview 1, one of the cool features they introduced is to "Remove Unused References..." for any Projects and Nuget packages that are not in use. At the time of writing this blog post, we have Visual Studio Version 16.10.0 (official release) which includes this new feature.  As part of development, we generally get carried away and introduce new Nuget package references to your project and add new references to your Projects. By the end of development, you will not be 100% sure which are not being referenced and unused which means you will leave those unused project references in your application. Now you might be wondering what's the big deal in it since it doesn't harm. The advantage of removing unused project r
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Password Reset for Virtual Machine in Azure

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Reset password for Domain controller Virtual Machine The first thing you will likely try is the Reset Password option in the Azure portal. It does not work for Domain Controllers. In order to reset password for Domain controller below is the procedure Ø   Go to the VM in the azure portal Ø   Go into the extensions menu for that VM Ø   In the top menu pick “Add” Ø   Choose the Custom Script extension Ø   Click Create Ø   Pick your DCUser.ps1 script file, which is available below. Ø   Click OK. Ø   Wait for the extension to be deployed and run, once ran ensure you uninstall the extension as a best practice.   PowerShell script for Password Reset for DC. Replace user name and password based on your requirement. DCPasswordReset.ps1 You can reset normal Windows virtual machine (VM) credentials in a few different ways, depending on your needs: Reset password using Azure Portal           Ø   Select your Windows virtual machine, from your VM n
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Disable Azure function for v1 and v2

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Disabling an Azure function has a bug in v1, which is fixed in v2. Below I have made an attempt to explain with both version how it works. Azure function v2 Enable or disable Azure function bug is fixed in Azure Function v2. Now things are driven through portal using the below setting Azure function v1 Recently we had an issue in Production application, due to business reason we had to stop one of the Azure functions. We used Azure function app service running on App service plan and function is Time triggered. We tried with option available in Azure portal under functions where it lists all the functions available in the App service plan with status as shown below. For the Azure function we wanted to stop, we chose Disable option. However, immediately we noticed that the function was still running, and the function monitor showed those further executions. Solution: Below are the 3 options Approach 1 : Requires code change where we
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