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Library Manager: Client-side content manager for web apps | ASP.NET Blog

Introducing: Library Manager – Available in Visual Studio 2017 v15.7 Preview 3.0 in the Web Development and .NET Core workloads. Library Manager (“LibMan” for short) is Microsoft’s new static client-side library management system, specifically designed with web projects in mind. It provides a mechanism, similar to Bower or npm, that helps users find and fetch library files from an external source such as CDNJS or a local library catalog. Library configuration can be stored with the project and files can be downloaded during build, or with Visual Studio …
blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2018/04/17/library-manager-client-side-content-manager-for-web-apps/

Custom error pages in ASP.NET MVC

Excellent blog post by Ben Foster:
Custom error pages in ASP.NET MVC. Easy, right? – Ben Foster

My extra take on it was to create content in the static .html pages and use an iframe inside the aspx based pages (to reuse the content easily).

E.g: (my 500 error page is named Error500.aspx)

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Error500.aspx.cs" Inherits="Error500" %>
<% Response.StatusCode = 500; %>

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title>An error has occurred - 500</title>
    <style>iframe, html, body { height: 100%; width: 100%; margin: 0; border: 0; padding: 0; }</style>
</head>
<body>
    <iframe src="Error500.html"></iframe>
</body>
</html>

 

Azure VMs – Start/Stop during off-hours solution

Follow this link to setup daily start and stop of your Azure VMs (saves money for dev or test environments that only needs to be active during workhours for instance).

Start/Stop VMs during off-hours solution (preview) | Microsoft Docs
(Goto Marketplace and select Start/Stop VMs during off-hours [Preview] from the search results.)

When done, the above steps have created daily start and stops, to set monday-friday 07:00-19:00 (and off during holiday) go to Resource group -> Automation account -> Schedules.
Deactivate “Scheduled-StartVM” and “Scheduled-StopVM”. Edit “Sequenced-StartVM” and “SequencedStopVM” and set weekdays schedule using these.