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When adding emoticons to your PowerPoint slides, sometimes the rendering might not be as expected. For example, PowerPoint renders the emoticon only in a textual, monochrome variant on the slide. So, how can we influence this behavior?

When adding emoticons to your PowerPoint slides, sometimes the rendering might not be as expected.

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Learn how to stack emoticons in PowerPoint to create engaging and visually appealing slide titles. Bring your presentations to life with this quick and easy tip!

Looking to make your PowerPoint slide titles more engaging and eye-catching? When a single emoticon doesn’t quite capture the message you want to convey, why not combine multiple emoticons?
In this quick guide, I will show you how to stack emoticons in PowerPoint to create compelling and meaningful slide titles.

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I recently joined the Advent of Code 2021. During the first 25 days of December, the challenges made me (re)discover many possibilities with C#, some that are long available but maybe not that well known. I share my code and list of concepts that might inspire you to discover a feature you were not aware of yet!

Although Eric Wastl has been organizing the Advent of Code since 2015. I only discovered it recently when some colleagues invited me to join the 2021 edition.

Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.

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During the first 25 days of December, the challenges made me (re)discover many possibilities with C#, some that are long available but maybe not that well known.

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In a previous article I described how to configure an Azure SQL database failover group for high availability across multiple regions. But what if you want to limit network traffic to a database in this failover group to only your private networks? In this article I show how to make a SQL database failover group reachable via the Private Link service and make sure the database stays reachable after a failover.

In a previous article I described how to configure an Azure SQL database failover group for high availability across multiple regions.

But what if you want to limit network traffic to a database in this failover group to only your private networks?

In this article I show how to make a SQL database failover group reachable via the Private Link service and make sure the database stays reachable after a failover.

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Last week I received an invitation for a social work meeting about "Pixel art in spreadsheets". I thought: "How hard can it be". Well, it is about 25 lines of C# 9.0 hard! 😁

Last week I received an invitation for a social work meeting about “Pixel art in spreadsheets”.

I thought: “How hard can it be?”.

Well, it is about 25 lines of C# 9.0 hard! 😀

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