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I liked this quote from the Netflix Technology blog. Very interesting approach to testing a large scale high availability system
One of the first systems our engineers built in AWS is called the Chaos Monkey. The Chaos Monkey’s job is to randomly kill instances and services within our architecture. If we aren’t constantly testing our ability [...]
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- Tags: SDET, Software testing
21Apr
ATL namespace not visible by default in Visual Studio 2010
Posted by admin as ATL, C#, MFC, Microsoft, Technology, VS 2010, VisualC, Windows
When you create a new ATL project in Visual Studio 2010, IDE generated StdAfx.h does not include the ATL namespace by default. Because of this behavior, when you try to use any ATL API (Like CComBstr for example) in your main cpp file, the build will fail with several “Undeclared Identifier” errors. Any existing project [...]
17Mar
Free .Net Framework 4 Beta Certification Exams
Posted by admin as .Net, Asp.Net, Microsoft, Technology, Training
I just got this email from Microsoft. Hope this helps some one waiting to get certified for .Net Framework 4 Development. It seems slots are very limit, register asap.
You are invited to take part in one or more beta exams for Visual Studio 2010 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.
If you pass one of the [...]
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- Tags: .Net, Asp.Net, Certification, Microsoft, WCF
18Dec
How to deploy an ASP.NET MVC application with out using the compiled dll?
Posted by admin as .Net, Asp.Net, Technology, Visual Studio, Web
On some occasions you might want to deploy the Asp.Net MVC application to avoid compiling it yourself etc. You can achieve this by following the below steps
Create an ASP.NET website project in Visual Studio
Add a reference to the System.Web.Mvc.dll (and any other DLLs that your application might need)
Copy the web.config from regular ASP.NET MVC project [...]
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- Tags: .Net, Asp.Net, Microsoft, MVC, Visual Studio, Web
17Sep
How to programmatically determine when Web.Config Changes?
Posted by admin as .Net, Asp.Net, Microsoft, Technology, Web
On some occasions you would want to run some code for every change in the configuration file, like reload the cache etc.. A change in web.config prompts the app domain to reload. So one should be able to look for application domain shutdown reason to verify a configuration change. Here is how you do can [...]
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- Tags: .Net, Asp.Net, Microsoft, Technology, Web, Windows
15Sep
How to initialize an Asp.Net application before it receives its “first hit”?
Posted by admin as .Net, Asp.Net, HTML, Microsoft, Technology, Web
On some occasions, you wish to initialize your Asp.net application even before it receives its first hit to get rid of any over heads like creating application domain, initializing the .net runtime environment etc.. To achieve this you can use aspnet_compiler to pre-compile ‘in-place’, so that in effect the application is primed. Compiling ‘in-place’ the [...]
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- Tags: .Net, Asp.Net, C#, Microsoft, Technology, Web
15Sep
How to prevent a Custom Control in Asp.Net from being adapted?
Posted by admin as .Net, Asp.Net, Microsoft, Technology, Web
For the starters, Adaptive control behavior is control behavior that is customized for target devices. ASP.NET provides an adaptive architecture that allows key life cycle stages of a control to be intercepted and substituted with custom behavior. A common example of adaptive control behavior is adaptive rendering where an ASP.NET Web page is rendered specific [...]
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- Tags: .Net, Asp.Net, C#, Microsoft, Technology, Web
14Jul
Fix Problem Installing Windows SDK for Windows 7
Posted by admin as Microsoft, Technology, Windows
Windows SDK installation fails with following error
A problem occurred while installing selected Windows SDK components.
Installation of the "Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7" product has reported the following error: Please refer to Samples\Setup\HTML\ConfigDetails.htm document for further information.
Please attempt to resolve the problem and then start Windows SDK setup again. If you continue to have problems [...]
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- Tags: Microsoft, MSI, Technology, Windows, Windows 7, Windows SDK
25Jun
How to Fix RSS Feeds Not Updating Properly in IE7 or IE8?
Posted by admin as Microsoft, Technology, Windows
If your RSS feeds re not updating properly in Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 8 (most probably in Windows Vista or Windows 7), there are couple of things you can try.
Problem Type1: Feed Synchronization Issue
Fir and fore most verify if the feed synchronization is corrupted. Here is how you do it.
Open a command prompt [...]
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- Tags: IE, Microsoft, RSS, Technology, Windows, Windows 7
16Jun
What are the AES Encryption Machine Key Specifications in ASP.NET 2.0?
Posted by admin as .Net, Asp.Net, Microsoft, Technology
AES encryption is supported for machine key encryption in ASP.NET 2.0 and later. For more info read MSDN article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w8h3skw9.aspx). Here are answers couple of common questions related to AES encryption in ASP.NET:
what is the supported key length? ASP.Net supports any valid AES key. (AES key length usually [...]
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- Tags: .Net, Asp.Net, Microsoft, Technology, Web
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