Could Not Load Assembly msshrtmi.dll? Members Public

While migrating a few Azure Cloud Services to Web Jobs, we started facing the error, Could not load assembly ... /msshrtmi.dll,for just one of the projects. The error provides the exact path from where it is trying to load the DLL and is the same path from which the

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Dotnet

Life Learnings After Being a Parent Members Public

His father asked Ethan in a raspy voice, "You spend time with your son?" "Much as I can," he’d answered, but his father had caught the lie in his eyes. "It’ll be your loss, Ethan. Day'll come, when he’s grown

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Life

Managing Azure Key Vault using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates Members Public

Creating and managing Azure Key Vault was mostly supported through PowerShell cmdlets initially, but there are multiple ways of achieving this now - REST API, PowerShell, CLI or ARM templates. In this post, we will look into how we can use Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to create and manage

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Azure

Managing Azure Key Vault over the REST API Members Public

Creating and managing Azure Key Vault was mostly supported through PowerShell cmdlets initially, but there are multiple ways of achieving this now - REST API, PowerShell, CLI or ARM templates. In this post, we will look into how we can use the REST API to create and manage a Key

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Azure

Make it Easy for the New Person Joining the Team - Have a Project Ramp up Plan Members Public

Recently I was in a discussion with my friend/colleague on conducting a few ramp up sessions for the new hires in our team. The discussion went as below, Me: We should hold a few sessions to make the new guys in team more comfortable Friend: It's too

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Thoughts

ReactJS: Setting up the Environment Members Public

This post helps setting up the development environment for React on VS Code using Browserify and Gulp I have been playing around with React for the past few days and liking the one way binding and immutability concept that it puts forward. The component-based approach and having all related code

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Programming

Disable NuGet Package Restore for a .Net Poject Members Public

If you have decided on Checking in Package Dependencies into Source Control for an existing project that uses Nuget Packages then this post is for you When using NuGet package references that are not included in the source control, these packages gets restored during build time. There are multiple ways

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Programming

Checking in Package Dependencies into Source Control Members Public

This post looks into why we should include packages in the source control and not resolve it via configuration files at build time. Over the past few years, Package Managers have gained an important role in the way software gets developed. There is an increasing number of package managers catering

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Programming