Troubleshooting Assembly Binding

Today I was testing something with third party assemblies in our web site and saw a familiar error: Could not load file or assembly ‘XXXX.DLL’ or one of its dependencies. The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for …

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Git Extensions for Visual Studio and .gitignore

I have been using Git extensions with Visual Studio 2015 for a while.  I started a new .NET Core sample project recently, set it up with Visual Studio and did a few checks ins.  Then I wanted to exclude wwwroot folder, so I added it to the .gitignore file.  However, the files from that folder …

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Elastic Search Stuck in Recovering Phase

We have been working with Elastic Search for a number of months now.  We noticed that sometimes CPU spikes to 100% for a single index and the only way to solve the issue is to delete and rebuild the index.  Last time this happens to me  I decided to dig deeper.  What I found that …

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