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Remove the Mark of the Web: Visual Studio 2019 Build Error

I’m getting ready to start another semester of teaching Windows Form Application programming at Buffalo State College and over the summer our installation of Visual Studio has been upgraded to 2019 (I taught using 2015 last semester). While there’s not a lot of changes, one thing that threw me off is this “remove the mark of the web” build error:

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Turn Off IIS Client Certificates Dialog

IIS Client Certificates Dialog

This is a bit of a techie post, but hopefully it’ll help someone. Recently a system I was working on started prompting me to “select a certificate” when viewing the site over https in Chrome (in IE, the prompt was “confirm certificate“). Despite a lot of searching for things such as “letsencrypt iis certificate error” and “iis secure certificate do not require client match” I was getting nowhere.

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Starting an Accountability Group

Accountability Group

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At the end of 2018, as I was putting together my goals and plans for 2019, I wanted to put together an accountability group both to help myself and help others. Many people talk about joining mastermind and accountability groups but most sit around waiting to be invited. Here’s how to start your own:

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Planning Your Goals

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As we enter yet another new year, now is a great time to set some big goals. I recently formed a new Accountability Group and we met on this very topic.

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