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InvalidProgramException / Common Language Runtime detected an invalid program
Experienced this issue when carrying out a live deployment. There’s various StackOverflow topics on the subject but it appears to be an issue with Azure deployment. Re-deploy and all should be fine.
Azure DevOps – Installed Task unable for selection in pipeline
The Problem A current annoying quirk it seems. Adding a task through the marketplace and installing to the correct organisation. Going into the pipeline and then attempting to add this task shows the task as “installed” but little else – I’m unable to add…
Azure App Service Deployment Slots
With the Standard App Service service plan upwards you get 5 Deployment slots to play with. These are essentially staging slots that can be used to progress from Dev to Pre-Prod to Live. There’s lots of guidance online about deployment slots but here’s…
Using Deploy Keys with TeamCity and Git
Had a number of TeamCity projects connecting to the Git repo using my user account. Was thinking I should really request for service accounts to do the connection. This becomes a pain when I change my user password as I have to remember to…
Gacutil fails to register a dll and fails silently
I hit a bit of an issue the other day. Me and the DBA were rolling out quite a sizeable deployment into production. We were about half way through our deployment checklist (also known as the runbook). It was going well, too well in fact….