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How to export user aliases from Microsoft Entra using PowerShell

by Gérald Barré

posted on: September 09, 2024

Microsoft Graph is a REST API that allows you to interact with Microsoft 365 services. You can use it to automate tasks such as creating users, updating their properties, or exporting data. In this post, I'll show you how to export user email addresses and aliases from Microsoft Entra using PowerSh

Why is F# code so robust and reliable?

by Vladimir Shchur

posted on: September 09, 2024

F# is not just for math and big data, it's a general purpose language that will greatly reduce the amount of bugs in your code.

Discover .NET at DEVintersection Las Vegas 2024

by Mehul Harry

posted on: September 04, 2024

Join us at DEVintersection Las Vegas from September 9-12, 2024, for an in-person event featuring the latest in .NET and Azure technologies. Connect with experts, dive into new advancements, and get your questions answered by the people who build the tools you use every day.

Working with tar files in .NET 8

by Andrew Lock

posted on: September 03, 2024

In this post I show how to create, extract, and list tar files using the built-in tar support introduced in .NET 7, and discuss some of the limitations…

Why do I write blog posts?

by Gérald Barré

posted on: September 02, 2024

Someone asked me why I write blog posts. So, let's write a blog post about why I write blog posts!#Reason 1: I forget thingsAs a developer, you learn lots of new things every day. But my memory has limited capacity, so I also forget a lot of things. One solution is to dump part of my knowledge into

Seeing the results of Corax in production

by Oren Eini

posted on: August 28, 2024

Corax was released just under a year ago, and we are seeing more customers deploying that to production. During a call with a customer, we noticed the following detail:Let me explain what we are seeing here. The two indexes are the same, operating on the same set of documents. The only difference between those indexes is the indexing engine.What is really amazing here is that Corax is able to index in 3:21 minutes what Lucene takes 17:15 minutes to index. In other words, Corax is more than 5 times faster than Lucene in a real world scenario.And these news make me very happy.

BinaryFormatter removed from .NET 9

by Immo Landwerth

posted on: August 28, 2024

Starting with .NET 9, we no longer include an implementation of BinaryFormatter in the runtime. This post covers what options you have to move forward.