Windows

Occasionally it is necessary to access services running on the host machine from a container. You may be inclined to use localhost to reach the host, but this will not work as the container itself is localhost. Here is how to access host services from a container running on Windows Server 2016. This applies to containers running with NAT networking mode. This is the default, so unless you explicitly use something else, this should work for you. ...

Occasionally it can be useful to access a running container. On Linux it is possible to open a bash session with a new instance of the container’s shell with docker exec -it [containername] bash. Because the Docker interface works the same way on Windows it is surprisingly easy to open a command prompt for a running container. Simply execute docker exec -it [containername] cmd. When you want to exit again, just use the exit command. ...

With Windows Server 2016 available it’s time to find out all the little details when using Docker to administrate containers. A common scenario is accessing a private/internal hosted Docker Registry protected with a self-signed certificate (Details). Here is how you enable the Docker daemon and CLI on Windows Server 2016 to use your certificate when talking to the registry. Have your certificate (.crt) file available on the server Copy it to C:\ProgramData\docker\certs.d\[hostname][port]\ca.crt Example with internal registry on DNS and port myinternalregistry:5000: ...

While the Bing Maps SDK is out of Release Preview and made final along with the release of Windows 8, i find that the documentation is still lacking quite a bit. Here is a couple of examples of how you can customize the pushpin control by changing the displayed image overlay, without having to implement a seperate Control. Custom icon for pushpin using XAML and C# Add the following to the resources (e.g. in your XAML for the Page containing the Bing Maps Control): ...