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I recently came across a problem with Visual Studio 2026 and the Wispr Flow voice dictation program, to wit – Whispr Flow stops working with any part of Visual Studio 2026, or any version of Visual Studio actually.

I recently migrated this blog from its prior position in a subdirectory off of digitaltoolfactory.net to it’s own domain name of blog.digitaltoolfactory.net.

The Setup I was running painfully low on disk space on my C drive and was working with a Visual Studio solution containing 12 projects.

How can you fix the problem of the application pool refusing to start and throwing the error message of “The service cannot accept control messages at this time”?

I recently had to start moving my various WordPress sites from the standard App Service to a standard app service on Linux, using NGINX.

I’ve recently fallen madly in love with the PlayWright web testing platform.

After much sturm and drang I finally found that if you change your build arguements to msbuildArgs: ‘/p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:WebPublishMethod=Package /p:PackageAsSingleFile=true /p:SkipInvalidConfigurations=true /p:PackageLocation=”$(build.artifactStagin…

So – you want a step by step guide to deploying web apps to azure web apps from azure devops and changing config files in the release pipelines?

After much googling, and evening Bing-ing revealed nothing I discovered that for some reason I had the line config.SuppressDefaultHostAuthentication(); In my WebAPIConfig.cs file – I removed that and everything magically worked and I could use User.Identi…

So – you need to redirect to a dynamic page in TestCafe you say?