LogParser – Converting IIS logs to local date and time and filtering by date range
This is a note to myself to remember how to convert the UTC date/time to the local timezone.
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Fixed: The target “GetCopyToOutputDirectoryContentProjectItems” does not exist in the project.
If your building a Windows Phone app and get this error then a quick fix is to download the XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh (40 MB) and install it.
Configure the Belkin Play Max router for SLT ADSL Broadband
I’m on vacation back home in Sri Lanka and became the tech support guy for the in-laws. They were using an old D-Link router which supported just 802.11b and...
Generating a mock/stub WCF web service from a WSDL
When working on integration projects you sometimes need to build a stub or mock service to emulate the behavior of the targeted system in your dev environmen...
ULS Viewer stops working
If ULS Viewer suddenly stops reading from the ULS log, the quick fix is to move all the log files to another folder. Except for the last log file which Explo...
FBA Custom Sign In Page returns 401 Unauthorized error
If you’ve built a custom sign in page in SharePoint 2010 but keep getting a 401 Unauthorized error instead of the sign in page then you’ve most probably depl...
FBA Configuration Manager for SharePoint 2010
Setting up forms based authentication in SharePoint 2010 requires making changes in three web.config files. [FBA.ConfigureMembershipProvider]::Configure($we...
Updating Extended Properties of a Database using SQL Server SMO
Updating the extended properties on a database using SQL Server’s excellent Server Management Objects API is not as straightforward as setting the value and ...
Dynamically setting multiple activity destinations in K2 with ASP .NET
When building a typical workflow you usually know which user or group needs to perform an activity at design time. Sometimes though the workflow needs to be ...
Limit SQL Server memory usage on your workstation, laptop or VM
Here’s a neat tip I learnt over the weekend.