Category Archives: microsoft

WAS crashes IIS 7 while searching for unexisting services for msmq endpoints

And now: a no thrills .NET WCF technology post in the hope of saving some developer’s time while trying to figure out wtf is going wrong. The problem looks like this: Your w3wp process crashes, or your IIS application pool gets stopped for no clear reason. Restarting it only causes it to stop again after [...]

how to safely run destructive sql statements

This tip is one of those “Why didn’t I think of that before” things when I saw it being used first. You see, sometimes you’re on this production database and you need to run some SQL statements in Microsoft SQL Management Studio. Statements that if you mess them up will end up ruining your customer’s [...]

WCF service throws an msmqBinding error on a http binding

So you have this WCF service with a typical HTTP binding on it. When you try to use it with a client, or when you simply open up the .svc file link in your browser, it throws an error message telling you your MSMQ binding is incorrect. MSMQ! Contract requires TwoWay (either request-reply or duplex), [...]

install multiple windows applications at once

Getting a new computer is awesome. Installing all your most frequently used and essential bits of Windows software on it isn’t. So I searched the web for something that could do this boring task for me. Computers are usually good at that. I remember using something called AppSnap in the past, but that hasn’t been [...]

visual studio 2010 becomes slow after saving on Windows 7

Ran into this annoying bugger of a problem with Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7 where every time I saved a file (any file, no matter how large or small it was) the GUI started reacting extremely slow on me. Menu’s didn’t react, keystrokes didn’t appear, scrolling didn’t work. It acted like a whole bunch [...]

cleaning up disk space on windows round-up

I installed my PC initially with a separate C drive dedicated for Windows and system specific files. Unfortunately it turned out that I picked that drive too small as I didn’t foresee that there is plenty of software out there that simply won’t allow you to install to a different location than C:\Program Files. To [...]

will windows phone 7 cut it?

A few weeks ago I was in the lion’s den at Schiphol watching a presentation of the new to come Microsoft Windows Phone 7. It was supposed to be Windows Phone development thing, but it turned out to be more of a marketing rant than a geeky app development preview. Bummer. But hey, since we [...]