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Visual Studio 2022 not running unit tests I have projects with unit tests working properly using Visual Studio 2019. Installed Visual Studio 2022 on another machine to try it out, running Nunit unit tests does nothing. It does not say it failed nor indicate something is wrong. It was actuallying failing but I am not looking at the correct output log. As you observe from the above screen capture, the default log shows Build output. What you wanted is the log for Tests . See below for the correct view. The Tests output shows the issue front and center. The tests were failing because it was configured to use .Net Core 3.1.x but it was not avaiable on the machine. One way to fix it is to use Visual Studio Installer and select .NET Core 3.1 Runtime (LTS) .

How to properly delete Windows10Upgrade folder So you are running out of storage and you are staring at Windows10Upgrade and wondering how you can get rid of it correctly? Well, fear no more, it is easy. Open up Control Panel and navigate to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Programs and Features or appwiz.cpl . Then look for Windows 10 Upgrade Assistant and uninstall the application.See below for how it looks like.

Get hostname from an IP in Windows Method 1 - Using built-in ping. This only works if a working DNS server has reverse look-up configured. c:\>ping -a 8.8.8.8 The hostname for 8.8.8.8 was returned as dns.google , below shows the output details. Pinging dns.google [8.8.8.8] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=112 Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=112 Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=59ms TTL=112 Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=112 Ping statistics for 8.8.8.8: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 52ms, Maximum = 59ms, Average = 55ms Method 2 - Using nslookup c:\>nslookup 8.8.8.8 This is the same as method 1, it needs a working DNS to provide the information Server: somedc.com Address: some_ip_here Name: dns.google Address: 8.8.8.8 Method 3 - Using nbtstat c:\>nbtstat -a 192.168.1.101 With the added bonus that

PowerShell Quick Tips: In Linux/Unix, touching a file means to create, change or modify the timestamp of a file. Windows via cmd.exe nor PowerShell.exe does not have this tool by default. To create a file do the following in PowerShell PS C:\> echo $null > filename.txt

How to expand Ubuntu VM root partition In this post I have expanded the virtual disk of a Ubuntu VM via VirtualBox Media Manager. The OS inside the VM will not automatically use the additional space. In this post I will show how to expand the root partition to make use of the additional space. There are multiple ways to expand a partition in Linux, in this post I will document how to do it using GParted.  Change the VM configuration to boot using Ubuntu installer.  Boot the VM using the Ubuntu ISO installer Run GParted - in the warning dialog that says not all space is used, hit on the Fix button Select the partition to resize and click Resize/Move partition button Expand the partition to the desired size The hit on Apply All Operations Shutdown the VM, remove/detach ISO, then reboot the computer   .end.

How to expand virtual hard disk in VirtualBox To expand a virtual disk in VirtualBox open Oracle VM Virtual Manager then do File | Virtual Media Manager... (Ctrl+D) menu option. Then select the disk you wanted to expand. Note that VirtualBox does not support expanding a snapshot - you can expand but it will not work. You either have to delete all the snapshots or create a full clone of the snapshot. In the screen capture below I have created a full clone of Ubu2110 to Ubu2110-C1 and adjusted the size from 10GB to 12GB. In the next post , we will explore how to expand storage of a Ubuntu VM to make use of the additional space. Keywords: VirtualBox Ubuntu Expand

Resolve Windows NetBIOS name in Ubuntu 20.04 It is very common to have a mix of Windows and Ubuntu/Linux in an enterprise environment. There are scenarios where Ubuntu can get IP via DHCP but not enroll the machine to DNS. To resolve Windows NetBIOS machine name in Ubuntu in a workgroup environment do the following. Install nss-winbind like below $: sudo apt install libnss-winbind Then update /etc/nsswitch.conf . On Ubuntu 20.04, this will be line 12, which should look like below: hosts: files wins dns Refs: https://8thstring.blogspot.com/2010/05/resolve-netbios-name-in-ubuntu.html