Dominic Batstone

Software Engineer with interests in security and business processes.

Azure DevOps : NETSDK1045: The current .NET SDK does not support targeting .NET Core 3.x

3 months ago 1 min read devops

I'm getting error 1045 from NuGet in my Azure Devops Pipeline. The issue was that my NuGet restore task was using an older version of the task. Task set to v1.* which is

Spell check not working in Firefox?

10 months ago 2 min read

Spell check not working in Firefox? Install a dictionary and language pack.

Why I'm moving back to Hargreaves Lansdown from AJ Bell

10 months ago 4 min read

Why I'm moving from AJBell back to Hargreaves Lansdown

Switch in C#8 is different

a year ago 1 min read

The Switch statement has changed in C#8 to make it more readable, shorter tro write and has a Discard for the Default case.

Discards in C#

a year ago 2 min read c#

Discards is a useful but obscure new feature of C#. It has some great uses, but also needs a little caution.