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A couple of days ago, I had to migrate from Visual Studio 2017 to Visual Studio 2019. During installation, I came across a very annoying error – vs_runtimeMinimum_x64.msi is missing. The bigger problem was that I had that error message even trying to reinstall Microsoft Visual C++ redistributables. Keep in mind that this fix would work for any application that requires “vc_runtimeMinimum_x64”, not only Visual Studio. Steps to get rid of “vc_runtimeMinimum_x64.msi is missing” error message 1. First cancel any running installation of the problematic software (in my case, that was Visual Studio 2019); 2. Download “Microsoft troubleshooter”. You can…

While ago while I was looking for some papers I found out an old sticky note. On the sticky note, there are only four lines. They are: No duplication;One thing;Expressiveness;Tiny abstractions. Of course, I am not the author of it. The same set and order of rules I got from a book. I can not recall right now, but It is a book by Uncle Bob or Martin Fowler (if you haven’t read any of theirs books, I highly recommend you to do it). I remember I wrote that sticky note back in the days, and it stayed stuck…