Jack Ma, a developer's random stuff

Understanding the SynchronizationContext in ASP.NET http://vegetarianprogrammer.blogspot.com/2012/12/understanding-synchronizationcontext-in.html It's All About the SynchronizationContext http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg598924.aspx Don't Block...

I really wish I have known about these changes two years ago. So I can save some hours for resolving weird gacutil issue. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mjeelani/archive/2010/06/07/top-2-things-you-should-know-about-the-global-assembly-cache-gac-in-net-4-0.aspx...

I’m using Windows 8 system for my regular daily work. I’m using English as the display language and most time I type English since it is the work language in this company. However, I’m a Chinese and it is pretty reasonable that I sometimes need to type...

In one of my Azure projects, we use local storage to temporarily store some logging data files and then leverage the Windows Azure Diagnostic (WAD) to transfer/forward these files to a storage account. We encountered a weird problem when we tried to configure...

  Turning to the past to power Windows' future: An in-depth look at WinRT http://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/windows-8-and-winrt-everything-old-is-new-again/

So you have one or more SQL Azure databases that have data stored you treat really seriously and want to back them up on a regular basis like what you usually do for on-premises databases. However, the backup/restore story is different from on-premises...

My newly installed win 8 system failed to connect to my home Wi-Fi without any useful information provided. I tried many times, and it always failed. Then I tried to re-configure my router to change the security type to WPA2-Personal and used AES algorithm...

Surrounded by the Crazy to be Normal “I wrote an article on Weibo “ They Said… ” (Chinese) by Lu Chunqing. A very nice article. She mentioned the pressure from “They said…” in mainland China. People tell you to be stable, to get a good job, and to marry...

And it is from a post of Patrick Smacchia on simple-talk . Patrick wrote an essay about writing unit testing code in c#, in which I personally found a lot of good points that I could not agree more. For example: Not all classes need to be 100% covered...

Today, Windows 8 Consumer Preview and VS 11 Beta are announced. This makes a special day for Microsoft in terms of 2012 is a release year. Following are the quick links for you to get started to try out these goodies. Visual Studio 11 Beta & .NET...

Recently, one application I work on encountered an interesting issue. We have configured WAD to forward the Windows event logs to a storage account before and it used to work very well. However, after a recent new deployment, all Windows event logs on...

Due to an unidentified problematic reserved build, one of our build engine stops to function properly. Although build agent is obviously with a Ready state and not running any workflows (aka builds), it simply doesn’t give any responses to the build service...

The Reliable Sessions feature of WCF has bothered me for a while because I thought I have never really understood it before I read this great post written by the original feature owner for it. Go read it if you are also interested in this stuff. “TCP...

MSDN has articles about these two compiler switches. However, people have been always confused by the statements in this article. What does that exactly mean? Following are some experiment results for your references. BTW, here is a great post cover more...

Here we go .

Here is a link to the most straightforward explanation around these concepts I have seen. In case you don’t want to drill down to the link above, following is a excerpt. I’ve tried answering this question so many times and in so many ways: “What’s the...

Here is what I just got by using this command . Microsoft (R) TfsBuild Version 10.0.0.0 for Microsoft Visual Studio v10.0 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved. Destroy build record for 258141 permanently? (Yes/No/All) all Destroying...

Database.ExecuteSqlCommand is very useful when leveraging Entity Framework 4.1/4.2 Code First model to do the data access or object relational mapping. To make sure your code is bullet proof for SQL injection attacks, you must use the parameterized SQL...

It’s been a while since I quit my dedicated co-located web server and even my personal Live blog was moved to wordpress (meaning dead, because of the GFW ). It’s also been a while that I have told myself countless times that it is time to record this...