This been bugging me for a few days now so I’m glad I found a fix and thought I’d publish that to the world-wide web. Recently my old external HD started making these really annoying clicking sounds after I accidentally dropped it on its head. Oops. A check-disk showed the clicking noises where indeed indicating [...]
Code Analysis in Visual Studio is great to have your .NET code checked automatically against the .NET framework design guidelines, coding standards and good practices. By activating CA, you’ll pick up some of these practices along the way and as a result you’ll be writing better code, aided by this automated tool. The downside is [...]
Have that thing where your square brackets (aka the [] thingies) don’t work any more when you want to access an indexer in Visual Studio 2010? It’s your shortcut keys that are messing with your keyboard I tell ya! So to fix this very annoying little side effect, you go to Tools > Options > [...]
I was looking into getting some ebooks so I googled around a bit and something came up that was offering a nice deal. In fact, it was so nice that a little warning indicator popped up in my brain. It was looking a bit too good to be true, you know, the typical signs of [...]
Easier said than done is one of those expressions that applies nicely to managing your online account passwords. The rules are, as said, rather simple: 1. Use a complex password. 2. Do not reuse your password for multiple sites or services. A password like “pqu9ijLrFcDvmiphXRGo” is super-secure, but it’s pretty damn hard to remember too. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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