When a TeamCity configuration is created there are requirements the TeamCity Agent has to meet. The creator of the build configuration can specify Explicit Requirements on the Agent Requirements page of the Build Configuration Settings. When the build configuration is created, TeamCity automatically adds Build Step Requirements. The bottom of the same page shows the list …
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Create a Splunk HTTP Event Collector token
To receive HTTP post messages in Splunk, we need to create a Splunk HTTP Collector token. To create an index for this token see Create a Splunk index In the Settings menu select Data Inputs Select the HTTP Event Collector link Click the New Token button Enter a name and description for the token and click …
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Create a Splunk index
Splunk stores the events in separate databases based on index names. It is faster to search for events if the event types are separated into multiple indexes. To create an index for the event type you want to send to Splunk In the Settings menu select Indexes Click the New Index button Enter the name of the …
Enable the HTTP Event Collector in Splunk
To send events to Splunk via HTTP posts, enable the HTTP Event Collector functionality on the Splunk Enterprise server. If you operate your own Splunk server Log into the Splunk web interface as an administrator In the Settings menu select Data inputs Select the HTTP Event Collector link In the upper right corner click the …
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How to send an event to the Splunk HTTP Event Collector
The Splunk HTTP Event Collector is the preferred way to send events to Splunk. The Splunk HTTP Event Collector closes the connection if you don’t use HTTPS when you are sending a POST message. Recv failure: Connection reset by peer To send the event from the Macintosh Bash terminal curl -k https://MY_SPLUNK_SERVER_IP:8088/services/collector -H ‘Authorization: Splunk MY_TOKEN’ …
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The given assembly name or codebase was invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131047)
When I made changes to the web.config file of an ASP.Net C# application, I have accidentally deleted a comma, and I started to get the runtime error message: The given assembly name or codebase was invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131047) Make sure all necessary commas are there in the config files, Visual Studio does not …
Send Alt-Control-Delete to a Windows server via Remote Desktop
When you log into a Windows server via the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in some cases you need to send the Alt-Control-Delete ( in other notations Alt-Ctrl-Del, Control-Alt-Delete, Ctrl-Alt-Del ) key combination to the remote server. From a Macintosh laptop On a Macintosh laptop press the fn+control+option+delete keys to send Alt-Control-Delete to the server. From a Windows …
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Connect to a MySQL database from Visual Studio 2017
As of today weI can connect to a MySQL database, but cannot generate the Entity Data Model from a MySQL database in Visual Studio 2017 To access a MySQL database from Visual Studio 2017 IMPORTANT: First install MySQL for Visual Studio, and after that install MySQL Connector/Net. If MySQL Connector/Net is already installed on your workstation, uninstall …
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Generate Entity Framework Entity Data Model in Visual Studio 2017
Visual Studio 2017 has many project type options, and not all of them support the Entity Framework user interface to generate the Entity Framework Data Model (EDMX) file. If you create an ASP.NET Web Application(.NET Framework) you can add the EDMX file to it. The .NET Core projects do not support the Entity Framework Data Model …
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{“error”:”Entity type ‘AspNetUserRoles’ has composite primary key defined with data annotations. To set composite primary key, use fluent API.”}
When a database table has composite keys (multiple columns are in the key) you cannot use the usual key definition [Key] [Display(Name = “UserId”)] public string UserId { get; set; } [Key] [Display(Name = “RoleId”)] public string RoleId { get; set; } When you run the application you get the error message: {“error”:”Entity type ‘AspNetUserRoles’ has composite …