Issues fixed in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.0.4

• Attach to iis prompt to attach multiple times.
• WPF applications broken after FW 4.8 update.
• installing typescript 3.3 disables version 2.2 compilation.
• Unable to attach debugger when attaching multiple startup projects on Visual Studio 2019.
• Known issue: Application tab of VB project property pages is broken when isntalling the .NET Framework 4.8 Developer Pack.
• Visual Studio extensions may fail to install attempting to overwrite core NuGet files.
• microsoft.diagnosticshub.dotnetobjectalloc.vsix missing from offline installer.

Security Advisory Notices

CVE-2019-0727 Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service improperly performs certain file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could delete files in arbitrary locations. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would require unprivileged access to a vulnerable system. The security update addresses the vulnerability by securing locations the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector performs file operations in. 

This report presents the combined results of the fourth annual Developer Ecosystem Survey conducted by JetBrains. Feedback from 19,696 developers whom we surveyed in the beginning of 2020 helped us identify the latest trends around tools, technologies, programming languages, and many other exciting facets of the development world.

Rust – the Ultimate Programming Language?

What makes a good programming language? Syntax? Compiler? Tools and ecosystem? It is tempting to say “all of that” but in that case, why there are so many different programming languages? All these components are very important but they alone can’t make the language “good”. One of essential things is the purpose — like languages for rapid development, or development of distributed algorithms, or general purpose for high-level and low-level applications, or easy to learn, or safe to use and so on.

This post is for people interested in setting up an instance of SQL Server 2022 Developer Edition for personal use.  

The Data Engineering Cookbook

I get asked super often how to become a Data Engineer. That's why I decided to start this cookbook with all the topics you need to look into. 

Sometimes, you need to send data between two processes. One traditional way to do this has been to use SendMessage with the message WM_COPYDATA passing a COPYDATASTRUCT as a parameter.

Visual Studio Code doesn't support solution files, whereas Visual Studio does. In Visual Studio we use solution files to link multiple projects together, and at first I thought that this was going to be a deal breaker for Visual Studio Code - but it's not at all. Many people aren't aware that Visual Studio Code, although lightweight, is a powerful editor that can do most of the things you need. 

How to move onto the new beta version of Android Studio for an improved developer workflow experience.  

• Which API are you using? – Google+ API
• Where will you be calling the API from? – Web server (e.g. node.js, Tomcat)
• What data will you be accessing? – User data

https://localhost:6001/signin-google

{
  "Authentication": {
    "Google": {
      "ClientId": "xxxx",
      "ClientSecret": "xxxx"
    }
  }
}

namespace DNT.IDP
{
    public class Startup
    {
        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
   // ... 

            services.AddAuthentication()
                .AddGoogle(authenticationScheme: "Google", configureOptions: options =>
                {
                    options.SignInScheme = IdentityServerConstants.ExternalCookieAuthenticationScheme;
                    options.ClientId = Configuration["Authentication:Google:ClientId"];
                    options.ClientSecret = Configuration["Authentication:Google:ClientSecret"];
                });
        }

 public const string ExternalCookieAuthenticationScheme = "idsrv.external";

namespace DNT.IDP.Controllers.Account
{
    [SecurityHeaders]
    [AllowAnonymous]
    public class ExternalController : Controller
    {
        public async Task<IActionResult> Callback()
        {
            var result = await HttpContext.AuthenticateAsync(IdentityServer4.IdentityServerConstants.ExternalCookieAuthenticationScheme);
            var returnUrl = result.Properties.Items["returnUrl"] ?? "~/";

            var (user, provider, providerUserId, claims) = await FindUserFromExternalProvider(result);
            if (user == null)
            {
                // user = AutoProvisionUser(provider, providerUserId, claims);
                
                var returnUrlAfterRegistration = Url.Action("Callback", new { returnUrl = returnUrl });
                var continueWithUrl = Url.Action("RegisterUser", "UserRegistration" ,
                    new { returnUrl = returnUrlAfterRegistration, provider = provider, providerUserId = providerUserId });
                return Redirect(continueWithUrl);
            }

var (user, provider, providerUserId, claims) = await FindUserFromExternalProvider(result);  
foreach (var claim in claims)
{
   _logger.LogInformation($"External provider[{provider}] info-> claim:{claim.Type}, value:{claim.Value}");
}

External provider[Google] info-> claim:http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/name, value:Vahid N.
External provider[Google] info-> claim:http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/givenname, value:Vahid
External provider[Google] info-> claim:http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/surname, value:N.
External provider[Google] info-> claim:urn:google:profile, value:https://plus.google.com/105013528531611201860
External provider[Google] info-> claim:http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress, value:my.name@gmail.com

        [HttpGet]
        public async Task<IActionResult> Callback()
        {
            // ...

            var (user, provider, providerUserId, claims) = await FindUserFromExternalProvider(result);
            if (user == null)
            {
                // user wasn't found by provider, but maybe one exists with the same email address?  
                if (provider == "Google")
                {
                    // email claim from Google
                    var email = claims.FirstOrDefault(c =>
                        c.Type == "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress");
                    if (email != null)
                    {
                        var userByEmail = await _usersService.GetUserByEmailAsync(email.Value);
                        if (userByEmail != null)
                        {
                            // add Google as a provider for this user
                            await _usersService.AddUserLoginAsync(userByEmail.SubjectId, provider, providerUserId);

                            // redirect to ExternalLoginCallback
                            var continueWithUrlAfterAddingUserLogin =
                                Url.Action("Callback", new {returnUrl = returnUrl});
                            return Redirect(continueWithUrlAfterAddingUserLogin);
                        }
                    }
                }


                var returnUrlAfterRegistration = Url.Action("Callback", new {returnUrl = returnUrl});
                var continueWithUrl = Url.Action("RegisterUser", "UserRegistration",
                    new {returnUrl = returnUrlAfterRegistration, provider = provider, providerUserId = providerUserId});
                return Redirect(continueWithUrl);
            }