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Run Dropbox As a Windows Service on Windows Server 

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

Posted by Judy Alvarez Posted on February 28, 2022March 1, 2022
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New Relic and runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests flag in .net

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

Posted by Judy Alvarez Posted on February 28, 2022March 1, 2022
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Visual Studio Intellisense / “Go To Definition” issues

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

Posted by Judy Alvarez Posted on February 28, 2022March 3, 2022
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Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) becomes extremely slow after installing “Intel Smart Connect Technology” update

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

Posted by Judy Alvarez Posted on February 28, 2022March 1, 2022
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Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) becomes extremely slow after installing the “Intel Smart Connect Technology” update

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

Posted by Judy Alvarez Posted on February 28, 2022March 1, 2022
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MS10-024 and KB976323 will reset your IIS SMTP Settings

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

Posted by Judy Alvarez Posted on February 28, 2022March 3, 2022
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Create a comma separated list with LINQ in C#

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())

Posted by Judy Alvarez Posted on February 28, 2022March 3, 2022
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Metalscroll makes the scrollbar in Visual Studio awesome!

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

Posted by Judy Alvarez Posted on February 28, 2022March 3, 2022
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View JSON directly in Firefox

If you request a URL that returns an application/JSON result Firefox will give you a “Download this file” dialog by default. If you rather want the JSON data to show up just as a XML, RSS or HTML page would you could download this little extension called JsonView that will do this for you. Another nice little

Posted by Judy Alvarez Posted on February 28, 2022March 3, 2022
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Problems with MSBUILD tasks after playing with Visual Studio 

I use a custom MSBUILD XML file to build some of my projects so that I can run stuff to compress CSS/JS files and stuff like that. After installing Visual Studio 2010 and playing around a bit with suddenly my builds started to fail. C:Program Files (x86)MSBuildMicrosoftVisualStudiov10.0WebApplicationsMicrosoft.WebApplication.targets(132,11): error MSB4064: The “Retries” parameter is not supported

Posted by Judy Alvarez Posted on February 28, 2022March 3, 2022
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