NullifyNetwork

Are you having issues with loading the designer and getting InvalidOperationException and a NamedPipeTimeout trying to connect?

Open a PowerShell in Admin mode and run this to set an exclusion in Defender for the design server:-

Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess 'DesignToolsServer.exe'

I just upgraded this site to .NET 6, I thought it was over due with the release of Visual Studio 2022 having happened a while ago now.  Great to see it was a quick and easy upgrade, the performance has improved even more on the new version too.  I just updated the build version, compiled, then fixed some warnings caused by RenderPartial, I'm pleased to see they sorted that deadlock!

I also took the time to switch to Alpine Linux as the docker container hosting it as it's my preferred Linux distribution, however found I needed to solve the ICU issue (the MS SQL Server client expecting to have localisation libraries) by getting the packages during the container build:-

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:6.0-alpine AS base
WORKDIR /app
EXPOSE 80
EXPOSE 443
RUN apk add --no-cache icu-libs
ENV DOTNET_SYSTEM_GLOBALIZATION_INVARIANT=false

Oddly when building the ARM64 containers for the dev version of the site that runs on a pair of Raspberry PI's I also encountered a problem with the cross-compilation of docker containers, but that was easily fixed by running the below on the host building the containers as part of the pipeline:-

docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static --reset -p yes