Came across this recently: “ExecutionEngineException occurs during Garbage Collection“ and the subsequent KB article on support.microsoft.com. Last year I was finding some random crashes in a couple of .Net 4.0 Windows Service Applications, and this might have been part of the problem. Right, so what does this mean? Basically there’s […]
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Earlier in the week I spent some time trying to accomplish what I thought was going to be a trivial task – mapping from a sequence structure to a flat file structure using BizTalk Development Tools. The main idea is to take a looping structure on the left hand side […]
Ever wondered how to configure when you get prompted for user credentials when logging onto a remote system via Remote Desktop (Terminal Services)? Well, chances are that this might come in handy – especially fi you encounter issues which stem from an expired password (hence, the title of this article). […]
Introduction From time to time, it is natural for us to deploy BizTalk solutions with Assembly dependencies. Usually this is because we have created helper classes (for mapping, or querying) or perhaps it reuses some common logic shared between application suites. Whatever the reason, it can be very handy to […]
Introduction As I alluded to at the very end of 2011, I’ve been spending more and more time with BizTalk 2010. It’s been a little while since I’ve had to support/build/maintain BizTalk artefacts, but it doesn’t take long to reacquire “the groove”. To gently thrust you into the dark underbelly […]
There are times when you want to get a little creative about your investigative work when it comes to SQL Server. In this case, this is a very short article highlighting some efficiencies in locating information about specific programmatic resources within a database. If you haven’t used the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views […]
Introduction If you have a copy of Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Ultimate, you’ll likely have a menu in your Integrated Development Environment (IDE) called “Analyze”. Chances are, you might not have investigated the true potential of the profiling tools in VS 2010. This article will demonstrate usage of some […]
Recently I came across this little gem of a registry change – allowing a custom logon screen background, using OEM registry keys. Essentially, you simply have to set a specific key, then create a folder under the Windows directory, and then insert a JPG picture of your choosing. It’s pretty […]
Continuing on from Part 1, our objective in this article is to create a new Visual Studio solution, and then populate it with some existing projects. To facilitate this, it would be beneficial if you had a few projects already created. For this example, I have defined the following structure: […]
Not too long ago I wrote an article about Team Foundation Server licensing. Now that it is 2011, and after some recent access requests for TFS, I’ve decided it is time for an update. Does TFS cover SQL Server Licensing? One instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition or […]
Now for something completely different. Recently I had the desire to build a Visual Studio 2010 solution file for a number of project files under a directory. There were many projects, and each one linked to a solution file – but I wanted a “master” solution file.. one to rule […]
A permalink, or permanent link, is a URL that points to a specific blog or forum entry after it has passed from the front page to the archives. Gosh, those permalinks can be so important for search engine optimization. If you’ve taken WordPress out-of-the-box, you might find it curious that […]
If you have a Windows Server 2008 installation of the Server Core, you might run into a few nasty surprises when it comes time to administer the nuts and bolts of the configuration. The reliance on GUI tools causes some pain from an administration perspective, and when you come to […]
Sometimes, for various reasons, we come across projects or solutions we have to maintain to our chagrin. We have an application which runs on .NET 2.0 and can’t be upgraded to 3.5 or beyond. This application consumes web services published via the old ASMX services, and uses Web Service Extensions […]
For those who use a non-standard smartphone or PDA phone, it can be especially hard to determine the appropriate settings for your chosen carrier. In Australia, I have used Vodafone, Virgin Mobile (Optus) and SOUL/TPG (Optus) which varying levels of success. Recently, I managed to get my handset back onto […]