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Read System Properties like CPU Temperatures with .NET Core

Through a forum post I discovered the NuGet package OpenHardwareMonitorLibCore and wanted to test it.

Apparently this is a wrapper of a very popular tool (https://openhardwaremonitor.org/) , with whose help you can read out all kinds of system properties. This includes the CPU and its sensors.

Using ASP.NET Core 3 in .NET libraries

With the release of ASP.NET Core 3, Microsoft has also changed the way how to use and reference ASP.NET Core dependencies. In the past you could use NuGet to find the ASP.NET Core packages you needed.

Windows 10: disable app auto start

By default, Windows 10 starts all applications that were open before starting or restarting a system. I don’t know anyone who thinks this functionality is great, but at least you can turn it off.

Outlook: failed to add Office 365 account

For several months now there has been a bug(!?) in Outlook that often prevents Office 365 accounts from being added. The error message Outlook reveals at this point is a catastrophic one:

Microsoft MVP 2019 - .NET and Azure

It was this time again: the annual cycle of the Microsoft MVP re-nomination.

Thousands of MVPs sat in front of their computers on the first of July hoping that they would be another year of MVP and part of this special community - me too.

Azure IoT: send messages with C#

Requirements

• You must have created an IoT Hub in Azure.
• You must have created a device in your created Azure IoT Hub .
• You need the connection string your IoT Hub device (IoT Hub -> Devices -> Select Device -> Configurations)

NuGet

To use the DeviceClient , which opens the connection to your Azure IoT Hub , you need the NuGet package Microsoft.Azure.Devices.Client

Setting up an Azure IoT Hub

The Azure IoT Hub is a highly scalable, secure platform for the bidirectional communication of devices and software components in the sense of IoT - both in the area of industrial IoT (IIoT) and in the simple IoT for devices. In addition to device communication, the Azure IoT Hub can also provide device provisioning.

ASP.NET Core Serverless on AWS Lambda

Serverless

Serverless is on everyone’s lips; in the .NET area it means mainly Azure Functions. In principle Serverless is all about not having to worry about scaling yourself - and that is much more than just Azure Functions.

Resize Images with .NET Core

To resize images like PNG, JPEG, JPG and Co using .NET Core, there is no SDK support available today.

But the Microsoft Mono team has written a wrapper named SkiaSharp based on the Google library Skia , which works wonderfully and fast - but unfortunately a bit complex. The documentation can also be improved.

Add custom claims to token in Auth0

By default, the token of Auth0 does not contain any information about the user’s name. The default claim for the name would be: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/name.