Find homepage on Internet Explorer

When I visit google.com in Internet Explorer, Google is able to detect my homepage. I thought this was not possible but seems like it is as google is doing it. … Continue Reading →

Run Visual Studio 2012 as administrator every time

As a developer I spend my life inside Visual Studio. Since I installed Windows 8, I was having trouble opening web projects. Turns out that I need to run Visual … Continue Reading →

Unable to access IIS Metabase on Windows 8

After installing Windows 8, I found that my ASP.NET MVC projects won’t open in Visual Studio. This is the error thrown by Visual Studio 2012. My first reaction was to … Continue Reading →

WAT080: Failed to locate the Windows Azure SDK. Please make sure the Windows Azure SDK v1.5 is installed.

After installing Windows Azure SDK and Visual Studio tools November 2011, I got this error when compiling an existing Cloud project. WAT080: Failed to locate the Windows Azure SDK. Please … Continue Reading →

Google Shortener API For .NET Written In C#

Google Shortener is a service provided by Google to create short URLs. Google Shortener has been available for some time now but only recently Google released a public API to … Continue Reading →

Failed To Load The JNI Shared Library On Windows 7

When starting Eclipse on Windows 7 I came across this error “Failed to load the JNI shared library”. After many trials and errors the solution revealed itself. The problem was … Continue Reading →

Visual Studio 2005 2008 2010 Put Curly Braces On Same Line

I have been looking at some code from Microsoft and I found that in C# they keep curly braces on the same line. This is also the preferred style in … Continue Reading →

Binary Attachments In WCF With MTOM

MTOM which stands for Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism is a W3C Recommendation which is mostly about reducing the size of binary data when transferred through SOAP web services. Binary data … Continue Reading →

Search Within SQL Server Database Objects with Red-Gate SQL Search

SQL Search by Red-Gate is a great tool for searching within database objects. It is invaluable on brown field projects where you work with existing databases. My recent experience was … Continue Reading →

Working With SQL Server HierarchyId Data Type In .NET Application

Recently I was working with some hierarchical data stored in SQL Server. The data was related to products where each product is a package which includes other packages which in … Continue Reading →

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