Chris Webb and Matt Mason have both blogged about formulas for generating a date table using PowerQuery, but both of these posts focus on the standard year-month-day calendar. I’ve been doing a lit…

Possible Cause:- When you install IIS AFTER .NET 2.0 framework, the rights of the ASPNET user had not been set correctly.

\[16th Dec 2009 – have spotted a small final missing } in the Office XML sample code. Will get that updated with any other changes \]

\[The official announcement is in this Wednesdays MSDN Flash – but why wait!\]

For those of you working with LINUX/UNIX and you’ve typed:

While working on a Data Form in an ASP.Net application you might want to get a value from the user that corresponds to the Enum you created in your Business Layer. Since Enum types are not strings …

This post gives a little info about how to repair an LCD projector that has a washed-out and yellowing image, which results from the blue LCD panel weakening over time. I would have to guess that a…

You are opening a solution made in Visual Studio 2010 with VS 2012. When you run Code Analysis you get a series of CA0053 errors, saying it is unable to load the rule sets from the Visual Studio 20…

One of the first things you will want to do after installing visual studio is to set it up to automatically pull down the correct symbols for system components when debugging. You do this by config…

I recently bought a bigger 80 gig hard drive for my laptop, and wanted to copy the contents of my existing 30 gig disk with an XP install over to it. I didn’t want to go buy any drive copying tools…

SQL Server has a built-in data type that automatically marks changes to rows. This data type is “rowversion”. Formerly this data type was named “timestamp”, and Microsoft recommends you start using…

To write object-oriented programs we need objects, and likely lots of them.

Kanban (pronounced kahn-bahn) is a Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing technique that minimizes inventory and increases throughput. This is done by signaling. A production station has a bin or loading…

If you are looking for a great introductory article on Log4Net, I would recommend reading the Log4Net tutorial by Tim Corey.

In the previous post I had described the steps to secure your Windows Azure tokens and get the necessary Visual Studio templates as well as making your web application Azure ready by adding the clo…

I wanted to use String.Format with parameters that can be null. Firstly i decided to put some conditional code like if(arg1!=null) but then desided to check, if it is handled automatically. And fro…

Over the past few months I’ve had 2 customers that have run into an scenario where the SharePoint 2013 web analytics usage reports have no data (all zeroes) in the reports. While working with some …

So I gave a talk at the Edmonton .NET User Group on an introduction to automated testing. And of course in this introduction I gave a list of reasons why unit testing is a good idea. Although there…

Updated: June 12, 2006 – I had some debug code in there, basically a sleep for a second statement – doh! – I’ve removed it and Zip file updated

Every now and then I find that it is necessary to apply self signed SSL certificates when implementing Exchange servers. Self Signed Subject Alternative Name (SAN) Certificates that is, because Exc…