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Diwali and Halloween are two great festivals and knocking our door. This October month, Microsoft lances bunch of new features and some great updates on Power BI. Let’s review them in real quick way. Under Reporting section , they introduce new Automatic page refresh for DirectQuery (preview) . This is really great! In Page refresh card, you can just put 1 and every seconds whatever updates made will reflect on your report. Awesome! Under Analytics section , they introduce new Q&A visual . Bringing natural language generation even more to the forefront of reporting in Power BI with this new Q&A visual. Just drag this visual to your report and play with keyword. It understands your query, it will suggest you the best possible result, it will point out which might be your spelling mistakes and recommend correct key word, allow me to save a keyword with meaningful value. Like a supercomputer running and standing for my key press only!!! Very useful for business users. ...

During build process of one ASP.NET web application in Azure DevOps environment, I face the error  CS0579 multiple times. Everything looks great to me, but continuous crappy error keep saying issues in AssemblyInfo.cs file. Below are few red error I have face during setup this project. "SharePointServicesWebApp\Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs(8,12): Error CS0579: Duplicate 'AssemblyTitle' attribute" ##[error]SharePointServicesWebApp\Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs(9,12): Error CS0579: Duplicate 'AssemblyDescription' attribute ##[error]SharePointServicesWebApp\Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs(10,12): Error CS0579: Duplicate 'AssemblyConfiguration' attribute ##[error]SharePointServicesWebApp\Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs(11,12): Error CS0579: Duplicate 'AssemblyCompany' attribute I was quite sure there is something coming up during build process and make this as duplicate. Because this build process also provides assembly information other way rou...

Setting up build and release pipeline always tedious and we face many build related issues. Here is one common error I face couple of times while setting app Web or windows apps in Azure DevOps After placing the code in repos, and creating the build pipeline and run it, you can face the following error ##[error]D:\a\8\s\<your solution file>.sln.metaproj(0,0): Error MSB4126: The specified solution configuration "release|$(BuildPlatform)" is invalid. Please specify a valid solution configuration using the Configuration and Platform properties (e.g. MSBuild.exe Solution.sln /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform="Any CPU") or leave those properties blank to use the default solution configuration. To understand what is target platform defined in your project you need to visit or open the solution(.sln) file and review the following sections. In my case, this has been defined as x86 as target platform.         ...