Note to self - a blog by Lucas Canavan
Ramblings of a .NET web developer, IT generalist and advocate of the Windows Azure cloud platform
Storing database connection strings for Azure cloud services (including encypting the connection strings)
As my Surface didn't arrive on launch day, I had nothing better to do on a Friday night so...
Date: 10/26/2012
Here's a simple Powershell script I wrote to re-install the Nuget packages that are associated with...
Date: 11/23/2011
Did you know that, by default, IIS will shutdown your site upon the following events?a) After being...
Date: 09/30/2011
I've built a few machines for SharePoint 2010 development lately so I thought I'd make a note of my...
Date: 07/09/2010
“Inspired” by a pub discussion with a mate last night, I finally got around to doing a...
Date: 06/05/2010
Thought I’d share that I noticed that the videos from the sessions at MIX10 are freely available at:...
Date: 04/03/2010
I was recently working on a SharePoint Application Page and encountered an issue whereby button...
Date: 04/02/2010
After installing Win7 RC on my production Media Center box (ie the box I literally can't watch TV...
Date: 05/23/2009
A cool new feature in Windows7 & Server 2008 R2 is the ability to boot from a .vhd file! Having...
Date: 05/23/2009
I noticed SQL updates (KB960089 but also SQL SP3) were failing to apply on the WSS Developer VM....
Date: 05/15/2009
After installing all outstanding updates on the WSS Developer VM I started getting unexpected...
Date: 05/15/2009
It’s been far too long between blog posts so here’s a post and a promise to blog more frequently......
Date: 04/13/2009
It's often helpful to instrument your code to help with troubleshooting, etc. Instrumentation is...
Date: 04/13/2009
These tips are reasonably well-known and have been blogged by others. However, considering how often...
Date: 01/06/2008
.NET 2.0 WebException "The underlying connection was closed: A connection that was expected to be kept alive was closed by the server"
I've been working with a few customers lately that have been experiencing this WebException that has...
Date: 08/16/2007
This is a handy tip to reduce the file size of your Netmon traces. This is particularlly useful when...
Date: 08/15/2007
- Download and install Netmon from the following URL. Note, the password for the .zip is "trace"....
Date: 08/15/2007