Somewhat subconsciously, in a hurry, I wrote the below statement char command[MAX_QUERY_SIZE] = "select top 300 "     "log.InsertsType, log.Inserts, log.Id, log.ProcessId, "     "log.ThreadId...

Unzip file via java.util.zip package from .NET code This week I had to modify a legacy java application that does quite a bit of unpacking of various zip files. Actually the file extensions are .EAR, .WAR, .JAR; those are all zip files. The target...

Azure storage viewer (see http://blogs.msdn.com/sergeim for updates) Contents Introduction . 1 System requirements . 1 Sample screenshots: 1 Installation . 3 Step 1. Install and start the Viewer. 3 Step 2. Modify configuration file...

Accessing Azure storage with Raw REST API Sergei Meleshchuk - blog Contents Introduction . 1 Example . 2 Client code: read a message from a queue . 2 Missing parts . 3 QueueBase . 3 ServiceEndpoint . 3 BuildSignature . 3 ...

How to do ETW logging from .NET application Sergei Meleshchuk - blog Contents Introduction . 1 Sessions and providers . 1 Sample tracing application . 1 Starting tracing session . 2 Stopping and decoding tracing session . 3 ...

Request authorization in Azure SDK Sergei Meleshchuk - blog Introduction Azure storage requires all client REST requests be “signed”. The storage server validates the signature. The server will reject the request if it is not properly signed...

Prepare VM: Programmatically Add ISO. Hyper-V, C# version [Sergei Meleshchuk. http://blogs.msdn.com/sergeim/] Imagine I want prepare VM fully automatically (programmatically, via code). Say I need a fully functional VM. That is, OS and applications...

Create VM (Hyper-V) via code - .NET version Create VM programmatically [Sergei Meleshchuk. http://blogs.msdn.com/sergeim/] From code, you can create many VMs per second. Those will be “bare-metal” VMs of course – you still will need to load image...

[Sergei Meleshchuk. http://blogs.msdn.com/sergeim/] The trick is to use StackPanel (example below). The StackPanel contains image and text. One of many ways to implement this is: - Create folder with icons and deploy the folder to the same directory...