Friday, March 31, 2017

Codeplex shutting down, moved the repos to GitHub

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The four simple projects I used to have on CodePlex have been migrated to GitHub. IFilter Extractor A text extracting COM component that us...
Tuesday, December 03, 2013

EntityFramework 6 breaks Backup/Restore of LocalDB.

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EntityFramework 6  has lots of  Resiliency enhancements , but one of the side effects is that doing a backup or restore of a LocalDB databas...
Friday, May 24, 2013

Getting the requestor's IP address.

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Getting the client's IP While it seems it should be straightforward to get the IP address of the client making a web request in the AS...
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Monday, December 10, 2012

Restoring a LocalDB within an MVC web application

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UPDATE: EntityFramework 6 has lots of Resiliency enhancements , but one of the side effects is that this needs a tweak to keep EF from spin...
Tuesday, December 04, 2012

How to create random readable strings for .Net application

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Why would I want to be random? If you need a random string, I assume you know why you're here. However there are some common uses for ...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

How to backup a LocalDB database under an MVC 4 sytem

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UPDATE:  EntityFramework 6  has lots of  Resiliency enhancements , but one of the side effects is that this needs a tweak to keep EF from sp...
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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Obligatory link

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Found this link
Monday, January 31, 2011

It's that time of year again... International Zebra Day is upon us.

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So, as in many years past, I once again am celebrating International Zebra Day. If you want ideas about how to celebrate, check here and he...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

MS10 - 070 Post Mortem analysis of the patch

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Now that Microsoft has patched the POET vulnerability , I thought it would be instructive to see what they changed. Now I'm not masochi...
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Thursday, September 17, 2009

And as for me? I've done nothing.

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My last post was 18 months ago... I deleted the two that followed it because they were time-sensitive. I've been sucked into twitter, St...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

And you, sir? What have you done lately?

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In Joel Spolsky's latest tirade , we learn that: Microsoft is an illegal monopoly Microsoft and Google are hiring people to pay foosball...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

SQL Server Data Services via cURL

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I just noticed a really cool article on using Microsoft's new SQL Server Data Services which explains how to use cURL at the command ...
Thursday, April 10, 2008

You can't hold onto nothing

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A while back, we were looking for an easy way to count "hits" against content in a CMS-like system. For the sake of discussion, pr...
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Sunday, March 09, 2008

Sometimes you make a hash of things.

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So, hash has been on my mind lately.  No, not that kind of hash, or that kind either.  First, there was last week, when I installed Intern...
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Random thoughts to start the year.

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Little bunny FoFo, hopping through the forest, s cooping up the field mice and bopping them on the heads. Down came the good fairy, "...
Sunday, November 18, 2007

Individual label RSS subscriptions now available

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It seems there are several not-very-overlapping audiences for this blog. There are people reading for the SQL stuff, especially the datetim...