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I recently found myself setting up push notifications for a .NET MAUI app on an Android emulator. All seemed to be going well until I hit an annoying roadblock:

Java.Lang.IllegalStateException: 'Default FirebaseApp is not initialized in this process com.companyname.maui. Make 

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After hearing about Azure File Shares supporting Active Directory security a little while back, I finally had a chance to give it a go! Only it didn’t go so well for what we needed 🙁

To give some backstory – …

Everyone knows this but at the same time, everything I have found on the topic involves a lot of hunting.

AVOID UpdatePanels and just go straight into ajax with JSON payloads – if you even must use WebForms.

I knew …

Here’s a fun one. A friend of my wife works at a school and one day her computer was acting up so she took it to the IT department. Their diagnosis was “can’t run applications and requires a fresh install…

Here’s an obscure one for 2019 that calls back to the 1990’s.

Did you know that database connections in VB6 had an obscure hard-limit of 100 simultaneous database connections through ADODB that literally could not be bypassed and was referenced …

It had to be done – here’s how we did it.

ASP.NET WebForms is an older technology now, designed to be written in a similar way to WinForms.

If you’ve inherited an old ASP Classic website (I did at a …

I’m a lazy programmer. I really am. Not lazy in the sense that I don’t do anything, but lazy in that I actively seek out ways I can make my life easier and get a kick out of making other …

Here’s a fun one that I’ve had ever since Visual Studio 2015 through to Visual Studio 2019. Occasionally when editing an aspx or ascx my entire file is updated by the IDE to include #EXTERNAL SOURCE directives throughout my file …

Hey everyone, I’ve managed to put up both the Version 2.0 rewrites of the OpenGL 2.x tutorials for Blending and Scaling. Still going strong!

With this though begs the question as to why I see OpenGL 2.x still being a …

You’ve probably noticed the site is looking a little different today. I’ve been putting some work into making the site look and act nicer than it has before.

For anyone viewing pages where code doesn’t fit in the left hand …