Category Archives: General

Check if service bus topic/subscription/queue exists with SAS key not having Manage permission

Posted on 9th February 2017 by amoghnatu

Hi, Consider a scenario where you’ve developed an application health monitoring type system which validates your application at application startup/periodically. Now as part of that if your application uses Azure service bus queues, topics, subscriptions, then it would be good to … Continue reading →

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Cannot access a disposed object. ‘System.Net.Http.StringContent’ While having retry logic.

Posted on 12th January 2017 by amoghnatu

Hi, I faced this scenario today when I was trying to make an HttpPost call using a retry logic wherein I was getting an ObjectDisposedException while trying to retry for the first time. Exception Message: Cannot access a disposed object. … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged C#, cannot access a disposed object, Cannot access a disposed object httpclient, Cannot access a disposed object. 'System.Net.Http.StringContent', httpclient, httpclient dispose, HttpClient disposes the request content so the user doesn't have to. This also ensures that a HttpContent object is only sent once using HttpClient (similar to HttpRequestMessages that can also be sen, httpclient disposing content after post call, httpclient.Post dispose, httpclient.Put dispose, httpContent json getting disposed, reuse httpclient C#, When a request completes | 4 Comments

Resolving “Mapper not initialized. Call Initialize with appropriate configuration.”

Posted on 19th September 2016 by amoghnatu

Hi, In case you’re using AutoMapper to map entity objects; something like below line of code Mapper.Map<User, UserEntity>(user); and if you get the exception, “Mapper not initialized. Call Initialize with appropriate configuration.“, then it means, well, that you’ve not initialized … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, General | Tagged AutoMapper, AutoMapper initialize with configuration, AutoMapper not initialized, AutoMapper profiles, Automapper.Profile, Initialize AutoMapper, Initialize automapper with configuration, Mapper Configuration, Mapper not initialized, Mapper not initialized. Call Initialize with appropriate configuration. | Leave a comment

Recreate azure cloud service package with correct instance size from a package having incorrect VM size

Posted on 8th September 2016 by amoghnatu

Hi, Consider a scenario where you’re given azure cloud service packages for deployment and you don’t have access to the code base used to create that package. And in case one of the package’s ServiceDefinition.csdef file has an incorrect VM … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, General | Tagged Azure Cloud Service, update cspkg, Update Package, update VM size in CSPKG | Leave a comment

Show ADFS login page instead of windows authentication pop up

Posted on 23rd March 2015 by amoghnatu

Hi, I recently setup an ADFS website on a server and required the site to display the forms authentication page asking for log in credentials whenever the AD was accessed. But every time, I ended up getting the windows authentication … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, General, IIS | Tagged ADFS, adfs 2.0 sign in pages customization, adfs forms authentication, adfs forms authentication login page, adfs login page customization, authentication, enable forms authentication in adfs website, forms authentication login page in adfs website, Show ADFS login page instead of windows authentication pop up, show forms authentication page in ADFS authentication | Leave a comment

Get password for IIS Application Pool account

Posted on 15th January 2015 by amoghnatu

Use the appcmd.exe in cmd prompt to retrieve password of the app pool. Continue reading →

Posted in General, IIS | Tagged .NET, Get password for IIS Application Pool, IIS7.5, retrieve app pool identity password, Retrieve app pool password | 6 Comments

Installing Windows Identity Foundation Runtime. Resolving Windows Identity Foundation SDK Installation error.

Posted on 9th January 2015 by amoghnatu

Hi, I had to install Windows Identity Foundation SDK in a Windows 2012 R2 server for setting up Claims-based authentication. So I downloaded the SDK and started the installation. Immediately I was shown this error popup. The cause of the … Continue reading →

New year, new resolutions, new hopes. Happy New Year!!

Posted on 31st December 2014 by amoghnatu

Dear readers, Firstly, I would like to thank you for visiting my blog and encouraging me to write more posts. However, I’ve been very busy lately and have not been able to post much from the past few months. So … Continue reading →

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2014 in review

Posted on 30th December 2014 by amoghnatu

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 23,000 times in 2014. If it were a … Continue reading →

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[Resolved] – Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed.

Posted on 25th July 2014 by amoghnatu

Hi, So I was working on two laptops today and had to copy few files from one laptop to the other. As I always do, I tried to access the second laptop using the Run command \\hostname\shared_folder. It asked for … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Multiple connections to a server, Multiple connections to a server or shared resource, Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user using more than one user, Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user using more than one user name are not allowed | Leave a comment