I recently built some console apps to do some testing on my server. I wanted to be able to run the apps and get them to print info to the console. I also wanted it to log to a text file and to send e-mails to me. Log4net was the perfect tool to get this
You would guess that this would be a really easy task but it turns out this was pretty complicated. Basically, you need to create a scheduled task that gets triggered by an event and do some editing of that task in a notepad. I will just post my exported task here. Feel free to use
I know there is a lot of post about this already but I ran into some issues and had to collect some info from various places so I thought I might as well share my experience with the world. The goal is to be able to run Dropbox (or any other application that doesn’t have built-in support
I have been playing around with the awesome performance measuring tool New Relic lately and have been struggling with some performance issues that would have been hard to find without measuring the actual metrics from the real production server. Anyway, during the different changes, I made I changed the option runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests from “true” to “false” in Web. Config
I’m not sure how common this is but I had some issues with Intellisense and the “go-to definition”-feature in the new Visual Studio 2013, it just didn’t work. This was only happening in one of my projects/solutions (well, at least it didn’t happen in another project I tested). Everything worked fine except this, I could
I was running some optional Windows Updates this morning and after I was done I noticed that my remote desktop connections become extremely slow. Our internet at my office has always been a bit up and down so I assumed it was some temporary issue. But it stayed there and then I looked at Windows
I was running some optional Windows Updates this morning and after I was done I noticed that my remote desktop connections become extremely slow. Our internet at my office has always been a bit up and down so I assumed it was some temporary issue. But it stayed there and then I looked at Windows
A client called me this Monday morning and told me there were some issues with one of their sites. The problem turned out to be some issues with the SMTP server. After about 2-3 hours of debugging, I desperately try to do a search on Twitter for “IIS SMTP” and to my surprise, I could
For some reason I always forget that you do not do .Join on your actual string array. So i might as well write it down here so i never forget about this again. string mycommalist = string.Join(“,”, alternatives.Select(x=>x.Item.Name).ToArray())
Today i decided to look through tweets a favorited the last couple of months and one of the tweets I favorited was about a small add-on to Visual Studio called Metalscroll. Metal scroll basically makes your scrollbar a lot more interesting. It’s kind of hard to describe but a picture says more than 1000 words so have a