Video Error TF298020: The assembly wmvcore.dll could not be found
If you start the Microsoft Feedback Client on a Server operating system and try to use any of the recording options you are likely to hit the error;“TF298020: The assembly wmvcore.dll could not be...
View ArticleTFS Build: Running Static Code Analysis for Specific Configuration
Running Static Code Analysis (SCA) is something that you should be doing regularly to verify your code base against a large set of rules that will check your code for potential problems and how it...
View ArticleHow to change Rating values in Microsoft Feedback Client
I had a customer request that they would like to change the value the Microsoft Feedback Client Rating gets translated to. Currently the stars in the Rating are mapped as follows,0 – Not Rated1 – Poor2...
View ArticleSCCM 2012 SP1 – Welcome PowerShell on board!
I don't know how about you, but for me PowerShell is the only reason to migrate from SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012. As an old-school SMS and SCCM admin I am not sure about user-centric distribution. Let's say...
View ArticleLearn A New Programming Language Every Year?
I heard someone mention the other day that they have forgotten more programming languages than most developers have learned and it made me remember all the suggestions to learn a new language every...
View ArticleA consolidated View of Broker Service Queues
USE [CatalogWithMessageBroker]GOselect q.name as QueueName, p.rows as MsgCount, case sq.is_receive_enabled when 0 then 'Disabled' else 'Enabled' end as QueueEnabled from sys.objects as o join...
View ArticleEntity Framework, Insert Fail
When you are inserting into a table using entity framework, on rare occasions you might get the following error: {System.Data.OptimisticConcurrencyException: Store update, insert, or delete statement...
View ArticleAccess BCS Data via C#
The below code snippet allows for access BCS data via C#SPFarm farm = SPFarm.Local;SPServiceProxyCollection spc = farm.ServiceProxies;BdcServiceApplicationProxy sap = (BdcServiceApplicationProxy)(...
View ArticleWindows Phone SDK Update for Windows Phone 7.8
For those who have been waiting to update their Windows Phone 7.x applications to take advantage of what Windows Phone 7.8 has to offer (New Live Tiles), the SDK including the new Emulators is now...
View ArticlePoor, confused C# compiler
The C# compiler is a pretty good thing, but it has limitations. One limitation that has given me a headache this evening is its inability to guard against cycles in structs. As I learn to think and...
View ArticleWPF: How to Find Control Location.
Hello everyone! Unfortunately I do not have enough time for blogging this winter. I hope the situation will change pretty soon, and I will find the time to write something here.Anyway. You know that...
View ArticleBiztalk Application Testing Life Cycle Part 2
In Biztalk Application Testing Life Cycle Part 2 we cover Non Fuctional Testing In Non Fuctional Testing we required test below areas as a part of Non Fuctional Testing 1 Acess Right - Filesahre, SQL,...
View ArticleDZone MVB Goody Box Arrives
There are small perks that go along with blogging. In this case it looks like it is cubical war time. I got home yesterday to find that DZone had sent a goody box including stickers, post cards, a...
View ArticleExtending DateTime adding the good stuff
The DateTime struct in DotNet is well thought out, but they missed a few critical things that I find myself often needing. Fortunately with extension methods, we can easily fill in the gaps.When doing...
View Article50 Ways to Avoid, Find and Fix ASP.NET Performance Issues
Red Gate has published a new eBook 50 Ways to Avoid, Find and Fix ASP.NET Performance Issues.You can download it for free. They created their list by asking developers to contribute some of their...
View ArticleBizTalk Message Archiving
Recently at the BizTalk Summit in London I was asked a question about Message Archiving from BizTalk and one of the most common solutions to this is the Message Archiving Pipeline Component which was...
View ArticleAPress Deal of the Day 23/Jan/2013 - Practical HTML5 Projects
Today's $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781430242758 is Practical HTML5 Projects"In Practical HTML5 Projects, previously undocumented web design techniques are revealed and...
View ArticleSharePoint Password Recovery
Below is the powershell Script to recover SharePoint passwords.&$env:windir\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe list apppool "SharePoint Central Administration v4" /text:ProcessModel.Password
View ArticleWindows Azure Media Services Now Generally Available
I’m pleased to announce that Windows Azure Media Encoding, Encoding Reserved Unit, and On-Demand Streaming Reserved Unit are now generally available with the support of service level agreements. Media...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2012 Set Default Target Framework to DotNET4
First time you create a new project in Visual Studio 2012 the target framework is set us .NET 4.5. A lot of the fellow developers end up creating the project in .NET4.5 in accident. Figure 1 – Default...
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