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The latest version of cache adapter has now been released and is available via Nuget or you can download the source code here.

This post is about some of the issues I had installing the latest docker toolbox and how I went about solving them to be able to finally get docker working on my windows system.

For those not familiar with docker and what it is/does, I suggest going here and reading up on it a bit.

For the record, I have a fairly standard Windows 10 laptop, which was upgraded from Windows 8.1. Gigabyte P34v2 with 16Gb of memory and a 256Gb SSD. Nothing special.

Installing docker

Twitter kindly informed me of a great blog post by Scott Hanselman around "Brainstorming development workflows with Docker, Kitematic, VirtualBox, Azure, ASP.NET, and Visual Studio" so I decided to follow the steps and give it a shot.

I started following the steps involved, although I initially missed the part about disabling Hyper-V. So disable Hyper-V and then reboot. If you are doing Cordova/Ionic development and using some of the emulators accompanying visual studio that require Hyper-V, this may be somewhat inconvenient for you.

Everything seemed to initially install fine. Docker installed all of its components including VirtualBox.

Next step is to double click the 'Docker Quickstart terminal' to ensure everything is installed as expected.

Problem 1: Docker virtual machine will not start.

Docker terminal starts up and begins setting up the environment (creating SSH keys etc), creating the virtual machine within VirtualBox and starting that machine. However, the virtual machine simply would not start and the docker terminal reported the error and stopped.

I loaded up KiteMatic which is the other utility application that the Docker toolbox installs to see if that could help. It has an option to delete and re-create the VM. So I went and did that, but to no avail. The VM gets deleted, recreated but will not start.

I tried uninstalling and re-installing the docker toolbox, realised the VM remains in VirtualBox, so deleted that VM manually (it was named ‘default’), then un-installed and re-installed again but unfortunately no go.

I loaded VirtualBox and tried to start the machine manually but no go. A dialog was shown with a 'Details' button which revealed the following error:

Failed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter' (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND).

Hmm, not that informative but plonking the error code into google/bing revealed many posts of others having similar issues.

My 'Glav.CacheAdapter' package has recently had a major release and is now at version 4.0. If you are not familiar with what this package does, you can look at previous posts on the subject here and here. In a nutshell, you can program against a cache interface, and via configuration, switch between ASP.Net web cache, memory cache, Windows Azure Appfabric, memcached and now redis.

I am pleased to announce that my 'Glav.CacheAdapter' package has recently been updated to 3.2 (we skipped 3.1 for a few reasons).

I am happy to announce that CacheAdapter Version 3.0 has been released. You can grab the nuget package from here or you can download the source code from here

This article describes an emerging open source specification, referred to as Owin – An Open Web Interface for .Net, what it is, and how this might be beneficial to the .Net technology stack. It will also provide a brief, concise look at how to get started with Owin and related technologies. In my initial investigations with Owin and how to play with it, I found lots of conflicting documentation and unclear ways of how to make it work and why. This article is an attempt to better articulate those steps so that you may save yourself lots of time and come to a clearer understanding in a much shorter time than I did.

We had an issue recently that caused us some time and quite a lot of head scratching. We had made some relatively minor changes to our product and performed a release into staging for testing. We released our main web application as well as our custom built support tool (also a web app).