Code Scraps: Send TeamCity the date and time during builds on Windows
Having the date and time available to you during a TeamCity build is very useful – but this information isn’t always available by default to TeamCity. Here is a Windows […]
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Run a C# or VB.NET Windows Service in debug mode inside Visual Studio
Here’s a quick tip for running a C#.NET or VB.NET Windows Service in debug mode inside Visual Studio. First – modify the Main() in your C# or VB project to […]
Remote Desktop Connections in Windows 10
Recently a Windows update was published by Microsoft that can cause errors connecting to hosts using the Remote Desktop Connection application. The error that displays actually explains the nature of […]
Deleting files in a directory older than a number of days
Here’s a quick Windows Powershell script to delete all files in a folder that are older than a certain number of days. # Delete all Files in <directory> older than […]
Code Scraps: GenerateApplicationManifest build error in Visual Studio
I got an unusual error in Visual Studio the other day that I hadn’t encountered before. The error was relating to an issue doing App.Config Transformations on a C# Windows […]
Code scraps: Get all files of a type in Windows
This extends upon my previous code scrap for listing all files in Windows. If you want to produce a list of just a certain type of files in a directory […]
Code scraps: MSSQL Configuration Manager
I’m working in MS SQL Server 2014. I needed to make some modifications to the connection information but discovered the SQL Server Configuration Manager was missing from the Windows Start […]
Code Scraps: Lookup an Active Directory user on the command line
I’ve worked in a few big organisations and I’ve found that using Outlook to look up colleagues can be difficult if you don’t know someone’s first name. So I’ve often […]
Boot loop issue on VirtualBox
Here’s a quick tip on a not so obvious bug you can have with VirtualBox. I took ownership of a Windows 7 virtual machine from a colleague. I copied the […]
Code Scraps: Symbolic Links on Windows; Junctions and Hard Links
Did you know Windows can do its own equivalent of Linux Symbolic Links? It’s been able to do them for quite a while, but it’s not something a lot of […]