One of my favorite and most underused features introduced in VS 2010 was Layer Diagrams. It’s a really simple tool to learn and use, but amazingly…

Profiling Code – The Microsoft Way A colleague of mine asked me how he can find out why his laptop does consume 30% CPU in the SYSTEM process after it did…

To optimize performance of visual studio build I've found multiple recommendations to change CopyLocal property for dependent dlls to false,

Frankly speaking, I’ve been out of touch with the Open source world for quite some time. Until recently, after I’ve joined the new government agency, I…

Connecting to Exchange powershell is, for normal operations, as simple as opening the shortcut on you start menu:). However, if you have the need to have…

This function will use the test-key function posted earlier. It will check which .NET frameworks are installed (currently only checking for .NET 4.0) but…

This function will download and install ,NET 4.0. It uses the Get-Framework-Versions function to determine if the installation is necessary or not.…

Disclaimer: This script is not of my own making. I found it on a share somewhere and it is so handy I started using in a bunch of scripts. To the writer:…

SELECT 'Checking Broker Service Status...' IF (select Top 1 is\broker\enabled from sys.databases where name = 'NWMESSAGE')=1 SELECT ' Broker Service IS…

So, you’re in charge of your company or team’s Team Foundation Server. Wish it was easier to manage, administer, extend? Well, here are a few utilities…

Profiling Startup Of VS2012 – SpeedTrace Profiler SpeedTrace is a relatively unknown profiler made a company called Ipcas. A single professional license…

Basic set up of Azure storage for local development and production. This is a somewhat completion of the following guide from…

\--------- UPDATE 12/06/2012--------- Note: this issue should now be fully resolved on Geeks with Blogs as of this morning (12/06/2012).

The folks over on the TFS / Visual Studio team have been working hard at releasing a steady stream of new features for their new hosted Team Foundation…

WatiN")'s DomContainer.WaitForComplete") method pauses test execution until the DOM has finished loading, but if your page has functions registered with…

Who could ask for more with LESS CSS? (Part 1 of 3–Features) It wasn’t very long ago that I first began to get into CSS precompilers such as SASS…

I recently did a course at the local university on Software Engineering. At the beginning of the course I looked over the outline of the subject and there…

ANTS CLR and Memory Profiler In Depth Review (Part 2 of 2 – Memory Profiler) One of the things that people might not know about me, is my obsession to…

Getting the balance right for when and how many team projects to create has always been a bit of a balance. On large initiatives, there are often teams…

I was trying to find my databse for local db under localhost etc but no luck. The following led me to just connect to it, kind of obvious really when you…