copilot_here: December 2025 Updates - Native CLI, Stability & More
December updates move copilot_here orchestration into a .NET 10 Native AOT CLI, fix PowerShell 5.1 compatibility issues, and add cross-shell installation and session information.
copilot_here: November 2025 Updates - ARM64, .NET 10, Airlock & More
November updates add native ARM64 images, .NET 10, PowerShell Core integration, Airlock network controls, host path mapping, and configurable directory mounts.
The Mysterious Case of the Failing Azure SQL Deployment
A perfectly stable GitHub Actions deployment to Azure SQL suddenly fails with a misleading 'Identity not found' error. Follow the debugging journey to uncover the real culprit that has nothing to do with the identity.
Moving Application Insights resources between subscriptions in Azure
There is documentation available for Move resources to new resource group or subscription but things are easier to do with exact sample code so here it goes . The steps below will work for moving between Resource Groups as well, you'll just skip some steps that would be obvious.
Opening apps from the directory you in as Administrator
The other day I saw a post that Greg Duncan shared about opening CMD and PowerShell from the directory you in.
Using Azure Resource Manager
In the new Azure Portal you create all your resources in Resource Groups, there is also as part of the Azure SDK's a module called AzureResourceManager by default the module loaded for the Azure SDK is AzureServiceManagement. A blurb from one of the Azure documentation page reads
Configuring a Chocolatey Install
So yesterday I posted Pushing a new project to Chocolatey and I said I would create another post showing how to configure how the Chocolatey install runs and this is that post .
Pushing a new project to Chocolatey
Today my DotNet Pretty articles were featured on @coding4fun by Greg Duncan and one of the comments by Niner bc3tech (@bc3tech) requested that I share this solution on Chocolatey. I decided that this was a good idea and decided to share my experience .
Upgrade/Publish TFS 2013 Process Templates with PowerShell
I use to make a lot of TFS customizations and had to apply the template changes to multiple team projects which took a bit of time. Depending on the method you use it could be a quick or loooong process . When I first started doing customizations I used the TFS Power Tools to upload changes which is a lot of effort because you are uploading one work item definition at a time into one team project.
Organize your Music Collection
I was looking for a PowerShell script that would remove all media tags (post coming) from a folder of music that I have and along the way I came across a blog post called PowerShell - Automatically organizing your mp3-collection. Although this wasn't exactly what I was looking for right now I gave it a try and then thought to share it after I made a couple of changes to make it work on my machine and categorize a bit more . You can grab the script off GitHub Gist organise-music.ps1.
Easily download Ch9 videos
I watch and download a lot of videos from Channel 9 and because I'm a developer and always looking for ways to speed up anything I do I searched for a PowerShell script. I eventually found one (can't remember where) and immediately set it up to download This Week on Channel 9 and Ping Show. Over time I have added many other shows, events and series. The initial script I was found with some modifications was
Download #MVA Content with PowerShell
So I'm starting to go through some of the content on Microsoft Virtual Academy but I don't have time to do this when I'm by a good internet connection and at the same time don't have time when by the good internet connection to run though all the content I need to download it to watch in my spare time.
Download Brian Keller's VM with PowerShell
So yesterday and update for Brian Keller's VM (Visual Studio 2013 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts) was release
Start-BitsTransfer : Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Today I find myself with yet another bit of functionality that only works when you are running in Administrator Mode. A while back I had Full Admin Mode always enabled, downside of this is the store apps don't work at all. Up side is your PC works as expected . I created a PowerShell script to download Channel 9 videos as described in my post Easily download Ch9 videos, this script worked perfectly but recently started breaking with the error