Error retrieving certificates from Azure Key Vault

When retrieving certificates from Azure Key Vault I get the following error in my .NET Core 3.1 app service.  The file is read from the Key Vault just fine, but throws an exception when converting the secret to a x509 certificate:

Internal.Cryptography.CryptoThrowHelper+WindowsCryptographicException at Internal.Cryptography.Pal.StorePal.FromBlobOrFile

VERY Slow Windows 10 Right Click

For a while now whenever I R-click in my Windows 10 File Explorer the system hangs for about 10 seconds and then finally responds.  I've cleaned out a few of the programs that show up in the context menu, but no luck.  I just found this article, which sounds promising.

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/fix-for-very-slow-or-hang-when-right-click-on-a-file-or-folder/

Awesome!! This worked.  Following these steps and running ShellXView to see the context menu programs was VERY eye opening.  There are about 40 programs using the context menu.  In my case it was TortoiseGit that was slowing me down.  Once I realized that it was the culprit, I uninstalled it (since I no longer need it) and now my life is 1000% times better.  R-click is lightning fast again. 

Azure ARM Template Error Deploying Certificate From Key Vault: The parameter certificateEnvelope.Properties.KeyVaultId has an invalid value.

I've been deploying an App Service along with an SSL certificate that's stored in a Key Vault.  After renaming the Key Vault, I've been getting the following error when deploying the SSL certificate to my App Service via an ARM Template.

"The parameter certificateEnvelope.Properties.KeyVaultId has an invalid value." 

"Message": "The parameter certificateEnvelope.Properties.KeyVaultId has an invalid value."

To get this fixed, I had to delete the App Service, which I think fixed the problem because it removed the certificate that was deployed from the original Key Vault altogether from Azure.

Here's the article that helped solve my issue:

https://peter.orneholm.com/post/155342103823/using-azure-key-vault-with-azure-web-apps-the

C# / .NET - The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document

I recently couldn't figure out why my breakpoints weren't working in a sample project that I downloaded from GitHub.  When I'd hover over my breakpoints, I'd see the following message:

The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document

Could not load file or assembly Microsoft.Data.Entity.Build.Tasks.dll or one of its dependencies

I created a new project in Visual Studio 2015 and when I attempted to build, received the following error:

The "EntityClean" task could not be loaded from the assembly c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Data.Entity.Build.Tasks.dll.
Could not load file or assembly 'file:///c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Data.Entity.Build.Tasks.dll' or one of its dependencies

Running Node.js (npm) behind a proxy

At work I've installed and used node.js (npm) several times.  Every time I use npm it generates the following errors when it's first run:

    
    npm ERR! network connect ETIMEOUT
    npm ERR! network This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
    npm ERR! network and is related to network connectivity.
    npm ERR! network In most cases you are behind a proxy or have bad networ settings.
    npm ERR! network
    npm ERR! network If you are behind a proxy, please make sure that the
    npm ERR! network 'proxy' config is set properly.  See: 'npm help config'

These errors indicate that you Here's how I fixed it. It turns out to be pretty basic. npm uses a series of configuration settings, which can be accessed by using npm config as follows:

• call npm config list to see all of the current configuration settings
• call npm config get to retrieve the value a specific configuration setting
• call npm config delete to remove a specific configuration setting
• call npm config set to set a value for a specific configuration setting

So to fix my problem behind the firewall, I just needed to run two commands to configure my proxy:

npm config set proxy http://proxy.mycompanyname.com:8080
npm config set https-proxy http://proxy.mycompanyname.com:8080

The type 'DbContextOptionsBuilder' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'EntityFramework.Core

I'm building my first ASP.NET 5 application.  I've added my references to my project.json file, but when I added the latest 7.0.0-rc1-final SQL references it broke my DbContextOptionsBuilder class.  I get the following error:

The type 'DbContextOptionsBuilder' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'EntityFramework.Core'

Here's what my project.json file originally looked like after I updated several of the SQL references to 7.0.0-rc1-final.  The EntityFramework.SqlServer didn't have a 7.0.0-rc1-final version:

  "dependencies": {
    "Microsoft.AspNet.IISPlatformHandler": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc": "6.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.StaticFiles": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.TagHelpers": "6.0.0-rc1-final",
    "EntityFramework.Core": "7.0.0-rc1-final",
    "EntityFramework.Commands": "7.0.0-rc1-final",
    "EntityFramework.SqlServer": "7.0.0-beta8"
  }

Fix:  It turned out that theEntityFramework.SqlServer got renamed to EntityFramework.MicrosoftSqlServer.  Once I referenced the new name, my errors went away.  Here's my updated dependency list.

  "dependencies": {
    "Microsoft.AspNet.IISPlatformHandler": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc": "6.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.StaticFiles": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.TagHelpers": "6.0.0-rc1-final",
    "EntityFramework.Core": "7.0.0-rc1-final",
    "EntityFramework.Commands": "7.0.0-rc1-final",
    "EntityFramework.MicrosoftSqlServer": "7.0.0-rc1-final"
  }