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In one of my previous posts , I mentioned about how to troubleshoot some issues with the use of a module. In this post, I will show you how a similar module could be of use when you want to log all the errors in a text file for troubleshooting purposes.
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This blog entry is a continuation of the KB Article http://support.microsoft.com/?id=910447 Scenario 9:Find out what is the peak time for your IIS Server How can you find out what is the peak time (peak hour) for your Website using Logparser? Answer:
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...well first of all, I am NOT recommending it, but sometimes it could be necessary! Now, let's proceed to the code... 1. Create a page called RunBatchFile.vb and paste the following... Imports System.Diagnostics Imports System.IO Partial Class RunBatchFile
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If you work with a lot of samples, the chances are quite likely that you will end up in a rather dirty list of Recent Projects List in Visual Studio. I'm personally quite nit-picky and I really hate it when I find something like this... Now... I don't
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There are times when you want to incorporate a picture, a large piece of code in a limited web space... ex. a blog post which has a lot of <DIV> tags. Now, to crop or resize the picture may not be the option always. I still see a lot posts where
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Or... what exactly is this "Compatibility Files" folder icon doing in my Windows Explorer?? Jerry's Blog explains this stuff beautifully! So, why am I blogging about this? Well... to cut the long story short, I have lost almost 3 hours yesterday searching
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I am sure many of you will be aware of this F7 and F8 keyboard shortcut while working with the plain old command prompt. For those who are not... try this out! F7 - Basically, this would just list the history of commands you have already typed in. You
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Background: If you have multiple Main methods in your C# console application, you will be able to compile the application only if you provide the /main:ClassName on your command prompt. For ex. create a file called SampleMSIL.cs and paste the following...
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Problem description> You have a Listbox where you have a lot of items which are quite large and won't fit inside the width of your listbox. You don't want to enable Horizontal Scroll bar, since you have don't want your users to keep scrolling left
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You know that by default you don't have too many options to change the Border Color/Style of a normal PictureBox control. I wanted to customize this control a little bit, so that you can at least change the border color and style when you click on any
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I was working on a pretty tricky issue a while ago. It was related to the Visual Studio IDE high memory consumption and slowness and I found that there are a lot of files in the Source Folder. So much so, that my gut feeling was saying that it is the
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I created a Windows Live Writer plug-in for inserting Smileys a while ago. It depends on a TXT file which was initially present under Application Folder + "\Plugin" folder. Recently, due to design changes in the beta version of WLW, the plug-in started
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Who doesn't like things for free? Recently, after upgrading to Office 2007, I found that I was no longer able to access my Hotmail account from my Microsoft Outlook 2007 client. I was getting error messages like the following... That was sad, and I was
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Sometimes, while troubleshooting I am interested to find out all the details about certain collections in ASP.NET, like Forms, QueryStrings, Headers, ServerVariables, Cookies, Sessions and Params... I created a very simple aspx page which would show you
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In one of my previous posts I mentioned about how you can Open command prompt and navigate directly to the path from explorer's right click menu... and I got a comment that it is missing from Vista. Thankfully, it is not missing... the sad part is that
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