Damir Arh@DamirArh

Microsoft MVP. Software architect and polyglot developer. Mobile apps. Development process optimization. Climbing and hiking with my dog in spare time.

 Jesenice, Slovenia
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Joined June 2009
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How I fixed failing Teams login for users without a license in their primary organization damirscorner.com/blog/posts/… #teams #azure

Logging into Teams without a license

In the company I work for, we're not using Teams internally and our users don't have a license for it. But some of our customers do use Teams and pay for it. They also add users from our Entra ID...

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A simple feature flag to disable all endpoint in Quarkus damirscorner.com/blog/posts/… #quarkus #java

Disable Quarkus endpoints with a request filter

I needed a simple way to disable all endpoints in a Quarkus application based on a configuration property. A request filter was the right tool for the job, but some care had to be taken to not also...

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I use PowerShell scripts to switch between JDKs in Windows damirscorner.com/blog/posts/… #intellijidea #java

Switching between JDKs in Windows

IntelliJ IDEA does a great at managing multiple different JDK versions and using the right one for each project. However, a different solution is needed for the command line. I tried vfox, but I...

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How I configured a Git repository on a shared remote directory damirscorner.com/blog/posts/… #git #visualstudiocode

Git repository on a network share

I recently played around with having some version-controlled files on a remote Linux server with SSH access. I still wanted to edit them locally in Visual Studio Code, so the Remote - SSH extension...

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I use conditional includes to configure my email for all repositories in a folder damirscorner.com/blog/posts/… #git

Per-folder git configuration

My work consists of writing code for multiple clients and for some of them I need to use a different email in my git commits. I recently learned that there is a better approach for handling this than...

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I added another network interface to a Linux virtual machine I use for hosting Docker containers damirscorner.com/blog/posts/… #linux #proxmox #docker

Adding a second NIC to Proxmox VM

As I'm adding more services to my home lab server, I reached a point at which I want to expose some of them to the internet but keep others available only in the internal network. To securely do so...

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Oh My Posh can be configured to automatically change tab titles in Windows Terminal damirscorner.com/blog/posts/… #powershell

PowerShell Tab Title in Windows Terminal

I often have several tabs open in my Windows Terminal. And I like how I can easily identify the right one by its title if it's a tab for WSL or an SSH connection. Fortunately, PowerShell can also...

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I wrote about the process of getting my old Xerox printer to work in Linux damirscorner.com/blog/posts/… #xerox #printer #linux

Installing 32-bit Xerox printer in Linux

With Windows 10 support officially ending, I decided to install Linux Mint on one of my older machines which isn't supported by Windows 11. The transition was really smooth for the most part with the...

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I updated my NuGet package publishing GitHub Actions workflow to use trusted publishing damirscorner.com/blog/posts/… #nuget #dotnet #github

Switching to NuGet trusted publishing

When the support for trusted publishing on NuGet was announced, I decided to try switching to it for my side project as soon as possible. The process ended up being very smooth.

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I created a PowerShell script to simplify adding new network routes damirscorner.com/blog/posts/… #powershell #networking #windows

Selective VPN routing in Windows

I mostly work remotely and to gain access to many work resources, I need a VPN connection to my office. When you connect, all of your network traffic is routed through the VPN connection by default....

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Slides and demo from my C# 14 talk at NT konferenca 2025 damirscorner.com/sessions/20… #csharp14 #csharp #dotnet #ntk25

What's new in C# 14

Since a new version of .NET is being released every autumn, C# has also adopted the same cadence. So, this November C# 14 is going to be released alongside with .NET 10. In this talk, we will take a...

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New options for overloading operators in C# 14 damirscorner.com/blog/posts/… #csharp14 #csharp #dotnet

User defined compound operators in C# 14

Operator overloading has been a part of C# since its very first version. The functionality has remained the same until the introduction of generic math in C# 11 when some changes were made to shift...

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Multiple extension members with the same signature can cause ambiguity when they are all in scope damirscorner.com/blog/posts/… #csharp #dotnet

Disambiguation of extension members in C# 14

In my previous two blog posts, I wrote about extension members in general and generic extension members. But there's one more topic related to extension members I'd like to cover: how ambiguous...

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As you would expect, the extension everything in C# 14 works with generics as well damirscorner.com/blog/posts/… #csharp #dotnet

Generic extension members in C# 14

I already wrote about extension members in C# 14 in my previous blog post, but I only covered the non-generic members. Since generics were fully supported in extension methods, they are of course...

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The long awaited extension everything feature is finally here with C# 14 damirscorner.com/blog/posts/… #csharp #dotnet

Extension members in C# 14

Extension members are the largest new feature of C# 14. We have been hearing about it for quite a while, also under the name of extension everything and extension types. It was expected to be...

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There's a bug in .NET 8 version of Created() method damirscorner.com/blog/posts/… #aspnetcore #dotnet

Buggy Created response in ASP.NET Core 8

After getting a bug report that an ASP.NET Core Web API endpoint is returning 204 (No content) instead of 201 (Created), it turned out that the bug wasn't in the application code but in .NET.

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The new field keyword in C# 14 can simplify your properties and improve their encapsulation damirscorner.com/blog/posts/… #csharp #dotnet

Field keyword in C# 14

The next C# 14 feature I took a closer look at was the field keyword. Similarly to the null-conditional assignment, it can reduce some of the boilerplate code you need to write. But it's not just...

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Pros and cons of null-conditional assignment in C# 14 damirscorner.com/blog/posts/… #csharp #dotnet

Null-conditional assignment in C# 14

As the release of C# 14 is coming closer and most of the features are already available in preview, I decided to try them out myself. I started with null-conditional assignment, a syntactic sugar...

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The OpenTelemetry plugin for Rider looks promising damirscorner.com/blog/posts/… #opentelemetry #rider #dotnet

OpenTelemetry collection in Rider

When JetBrains announced the availability of an OpenTelemetry plugin for Rider, I decided to give it a try. I've examined the options for OpenTelemetry collection during development in the past and...

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.NET provides various tools to ensure a timely response from a REST endpoint damirscorner.com/blog/posts/… #dotnet #aspnetcore

Limit web API response time

When an ASP.NET Core Web API REST service endpoint makes further calls to upstream REST services or interacts with other potentially slow resources, its response time strongly depends on the response...

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