Essential Tools to find bugs... before they get to production

Developers now have access to free and inexpensive developer tools that can help find and fix many common application problems. These new APM tools are now an essential part of every developer’s tool set. Show me the tools!

Getting SQL Server MetaData the EASY Way Using SSMS

So, you are asked to find out which table uses up the most index space in a database. Or how many rows are in a give table. Or any other question about the metadata of the server. Many people will immediately ...

Raspberry Pi Zero W - Media Streamer

So I’ve been wanting to update my media streamer for a while. In our kitchen I have an amp and speakers, and I have a Raspberry Pi One acting as a media streamer, primarily for use with Air Play. It sounds ...

Video Editing PC Build - Ryzen 8-Core Processor

Hello everyone! It's an exciting day. The first shipment of parts has arrived for the new AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Processor Video Editing PC Build! This fresh new shiny piece of technology grabbed my attention ...

MyGet Command Line Authentication for Windows NuGet

When using Windows and the NuGet package manager:

nuget.exe sources Add|Update -Name feedName -UserName user -Password secret

Adopt a SQL orphan

All DBAs have been asked to copy a database from one SQL instance to another. Even if the instances are identical, the relationship (SID) between the logins and table users are broken. Microsoft includes ...

Deleting old AZURE backups with Powershell

As companies begin migrating to AZURE, DBAs are tempted to save terrestrial (non-AZURE) backup files to “the cloud” to leverage the unlimited amount of space that is available. No more alarms in the middle ...

SQL server AlwaysOn Availability Group data latency issue on secondary replicas and synchronous state monitoring

This article explains how data synchronization works on SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group and some details about how to use sys.dm_hadr_database_replic... table to check replica states.I borrowed ...

So you want to go Causal Neo4j in Azure? Sure we can do that

So you might have noticed in the Azure market place you can install an HA instance of Neo4j – Awesomeballs! But what about if you want a Causal cluster? Hello Manual Operation! Let’s start with a clean ...

MS Dynamics CRM Adapter now available on Enzo Unified

I am proud to present our first third party adapter created by Aldo Garcia. With this adapter, you can communicate to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online directly from SQL Server Management Studio, and from ...

Redirect Standard Error to Output using PowerShell

We use LiquiBase for Database change control and Octopus for deployment to downstream environments in our CICD pipeline. Unfortunately, the version of LiquiBase we use writes information messages to standard ...

BizTalk Server best articles

To simplify navigation on the BizTalk articles, I've selected only the best articles. Study Big ThingsBizTalk Internals: Publishers and SubscribersPart 1: Zombie, Instance Subscription and Convoys: DetailsPart ...

Nested Enumerable::Any in C++/CLI (difficult++)

I frequently use the construct in C# (C-Sharp) to cross-reference the contents of two repositories simultaneously with one compound command: IEnumerable<string> arr_strSources = new string[]{"Alpha", ...

How to use Bower to install packages

In VS 2017, you have choice to install ui components by using bower. If you work previously in asp.net mvc project in visual studio you know all we use is nuget to install anything from jQuery to Newtonsoft.json. ...

SQL Database is in use and cannot restore

USE masterGOALTER DATABASE <mydatabase>SET SINGLE_USER--This rolls back all uncommitted transactions in the db.WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATEGORESTORE DATABASE <mydatabase> FILE = N'mydatabase' FROM ...

asp.net core as a windows service

Posting this to remind myself that nssm just doesn't suck.If you want to run a windows service and it's asp.net do this.Publish your app to a folder on windows. Make sure dotnet 1.1 > is installed on ...

Zoho: Is it possible to get GeoLocation of user?

Problem: Many times we want latitude and longitude information of user who is currently filling the Zoho forms. Zoho doesn't provide any such object by which we can get this information & it also doesn't ...

Integrating ASP.NET Core With Webforms Using IIS URL Rewrite

I'm currently updating a legacy ASP.NET WebForms application to ASP.NET Core. Because big rewrites (almost) never work, it's a case of migrating sections of the site one at a time, having WebForms pass ...

AppDynamics Disk Space Alert Extension: Windows support

I've added a Powershell port of this shell script to support Windows servers, and Derrek has merged the PR back into the trunk:https://github.com/Ap... port is pretty faithful ...

Custom Role Claim Based Authentication on SharePoint 2013

We had a requirement in a project to authenticate users in a site collection based on Country claim presented by a User.Below powershell sample is to add a US country claim value to a Visitors group of ...

Powershell to monitor Server Resource and make html report for a set number of iteration and intreval

While building a SharePoint farm for a project, i did load testing with VSTS.Since my SharePoint farm was in a different domain than that of my Load test controllers, I had to monitor few performance counters ...

SQL Server - Kill any live connections to the DB

Often you need to restore a DB or take oit offline only to find out the process aborts due to active connected sessions to the DB. Here is a quick sript that will kill all active sessions to the DB.USE ...

Distributed TensorFlow Pipeline using Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine

OverviewTensorFlow https://www.tensorflow.org/ is an open source software library for Machine Learning across a range of tasks, developed by Google. It is currently used for both research and production ...

Keras QuickRef

Keras QuickRefKeras is a high-level neural networks API, written in Python that runs on top of the Deep Learning framework TensorFlow. In fact, tf.keras will be integrated directly into TensorFlow 1.2 ...

ENZO UNIFIED - DEV CONTEST 2017

Compete for a chance to win $2,000! That’s right. We are offering a $2,000 first prize for the most innovative use of our technology. Within just a few hours you will be surprised how much you can accomplish ...

Using Measure-Object to sum file sizes in Powershell

Be aware that this line: gci -r "C:\temp\test" | measure-object -property length -sum will throw an error if it encounters a folder whose only contents is another (empty) folder; this is because measure-object ...

Writing your first adapter for Enzo Unified

This blog post shows you how to write your first adapter using the Enzo Unified SDK, so that you can extend the capabilities of SQL Server and/or create a light-weight HTTP proxy for applications, IoT ...

How To Suppress DHCP Popups In NETUI

Working on a CE device that presented a kiosk application I wanted to find a way to suppress the following Windows CE Networking DHCP popups:"DHCP was unable to obtain an IP address. If the netcard is ...

Counting pages in Confluence

We're currently migrating our Confluence installation, and I was looking around for resources to provide some basic metrics, eg. the total number of (non-private) pages we are currently hosting. It appears ...

SQL Server: How do I split a comma delimited column into multiple columns or rows?

-- converting column with commas to multiple columns --declare @col1 varchar(500)set @col1 = 'I,Hate,Broccoli'DECLARE @Tmp TABLE ( Id int, Element VARCHAR(20)) INSERT @Tmp SELECT 1,@col1 SELECT Id, PARSENAME(REPLACE(Element,'... ...

MonoGame – v3.6 now available

MonoGame 3.6 now available! Pardon the interruption of the regular MonoGame blog series, but this is important. There’s a new version of MonoGame now available!! Grab MonoGame 3.6 here: http://www.monogame.net/201... ...

Handling Exception in calling Web Service, In BizTalk

I have faced the issue of calling web service from BizTalk, where intermittently either service is not available or there is some problem in connecting the service. Service can return response error code ...

Capture HTTPS traffic from iOS devices using Charles

This article will show you how to set up Charles and iOS devices so that you can capture HTTPS traffic from iOS devices using Charles. Step 0: Download and install Charles from https://www.charlesproxy.co... ...

Execute AsyncTask like jquery’s $.ajax in Kotlin on Android

Last time I showed how to execute an AsyncTask in Jquery style. Now I will show how to do it in Kotlin. Kotlin has much better support for functional programming, functions/lambdas are first class member ...

Free Licenses for MVPs

I was interested to see a tweet from Liquid Technologies promoting free licenses of its XML products for Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). So this got me wondering what else is available for ...

Execute AsyncTask like jquery’s $.ajax in Java on Android

On Android, if you want to make an async call, AsyncTask is the way to go. Basically you will have to implement something like this:private class LongOperation extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> ...

angular it's just angular now

angular.io it's just angular man. using angular-cli with webpack is the way to go.Use gitter and the angular/angular channel if you have questions. They are friendly and responsive.rxjs of course rocks ...

Reasons for Automated Testing

So I gave a talk at the Edmonton .NET User Group on an introduction to automated testing. And of course in this introduction I gave a list of reasons why unit testing is a good idea. Although there are ...

How To Hire Top iOS App Developers For The Company?

Things have become so easy these day and all the credits go to the smartphones and mobile applications. People can just tap on smartphones and virtually do everything right from booking air tickets to ...

Multithreading with PowerShell using RunspacePool

If you are working with PowerShell, you may want to start running certain scripts in parallel for improved performance. While doing some research on the topic, I found excellent articles discussing Runspaces ...

7. MonoGame - Putting Text Onscreen With SpriteFonts

MonoGame – Putting Text Onscreen With SpriteFonts In MonoGame, text is displayed on the screen in much the same way as sprites, or 2D images. The difference is in how you prepare the font and how you work ...

Why Should iOS Developers Choose Swift Programming For Applications?

Whenever the developers decide to start new iOS app project, they might be pondered whether to chose Swift programming or Objective-C. Apple introduced Swift in the year 2014 after thorough research and ...

Migrating from NUnit to XUnit–SetupFixture fun

So I was limited to a specific version of NUnit for various reasons, and needed to start being able to run ‘core’ tests, so I migrated to XUnit. Generally not a problem until I hit ‘SetupFixture’. XUnit ...

Is Your Developer Team Designing for a Disaster?

Development teams work at top speed, and the environment in which they work is demanding and complex. Software is no longer considered done until it’s shipped, and there’s been a tendency to view shipped ...

Architecting a Developer Team Turnaround

A couple years ago, I accepted a position as the “director of digital” at a small marketing firm. And yes, there was still a divide between digital and traditional work there. I was mostly hired for my ...

Developer Teams Must Work Differently in the Future

As we inject more new technology into our everyday lives, software development continues to be one of the most popular and fastest growing job fields. But have you ever really thought about the core essence ...

Continuous Improvement is Critical for Developer Success

From the beginning, it became clear that Kanbanize would need more than just cool perks and a nice office to build a dream team equipped to deal with the challenges of a growing startup. A productive and ...

Changing the World with Agile and Lean Startup Methods

I can’t tell you how many companies I’ve seen, of all sizes, who start out with an innovative mission to change the world. They acquire a budget, rally a team together, and get to work for months or years ...

Past the Ping Pong Table for Better Dev Team Culture

here’s quite a bit of press paid to the quirky perks of startup offices. From ping pong tables to beer kegs to pet-friendly work spaces, sometimes it seems like offices are more into having fun than getting ...

Inspire Your Developer Team in 5 Simple Ways

We have a great developer team. We make software. We also invest a lot of time and energy in ensuring that the work we do is excellent. It goes without saying then that our development team is a crucial ...