How to get Windows Product Key from BIOS for VirtualBox, VMware or any other Virtual Machine

Windows Product Key tools

I come recently to install Windows 10 on VirtualBox 6.1 and VMware Workstation 16 player to make some tests, but have had the issues with some windows feature was locked and required activation. I have spend some time to find out, how I could solve this issue. I have made my founds and would like….

How to start using Azure PowerShell in Docker

Azure PowerShell

Recently I was reading that AzureRM PowerShell module is getting retried beginning of 2024. It sounds like long time, but nowadays, thing are going to fast and 2 years can fly so fast. I have chosen to install Azure PowerShell and play with it. Important Because Az PowerShell modules now have all the capabilities of….

How to make integration test for Azure Storage in C# – Part 3

Unit testing Azure Storage

So in the previous article part 2, we covered how to make a simple integration test of our Azure Blob Storage methods, and I assume the developers are as happy with the achievement as far as the office guys are. But, this integration test we made has 2 drawbacks: It requires fire-up Azurite docker and….

How to make integration test for Azure Storage in C# – Part 2

Unit testing Azure Storage

In the first part and previous article, we covered how to install Azurite, an Azure Storage Emulator. We have also learned how to fire up a local emulator for testing. Now we will build a small storage app that can do basic stuff like, read, write and delete, and then we will test it with….

How to make integration test for Azure Storage – Part Main

Unit testing Azure Storage

When I started programming, and before the age of moving solutions to Azure Cloud, I was not concerned about where to save my data. Because in most cases I used the same storage space where the code was hosted on. In most cases, the solution was on-premise within the same domain and there were no….

How to manage secrets in .NET locally and on GitHub?

Manage Secrets .NET

A lot of software development requires secrets to interact with other systems, database, api keys etc. It is ultimate important to secure these secrets, in a way that you are less concern who can access or se these secrets. IMO, a best practice is to have different secrets for each environments. For example for Local….