When developing software, there are usually two types of requirements: functional requirements, which are what your application is supposed to do, such as solving a business need or providing business functionality, and non-functional requirements, which may include...
Does a small business company or an independent IT consultant need an accountant? It is a tough question when you just opened a business, and every dollar counts. In the beginning, you know nothing about bookkeeping, accounting or taxes, and at least some advice would...
On my current contract, I have to develop and support SSIS packages for multiple versions of SQL server and in order to work with multiple versions, I am running a virtual machine. The problem with virtual machines they are not connected to the active directory, and...
Windows Azure user management is a little bit complicated, and unfortunately, there is no way to add users to the existing database using the Microsoft Azure management portal. To add a new user to the existing database in windows azure you have to do the following:...
Local development for ASP.NET websites over HTTPS protocol is much easy with the IIS Express development certificate, which is pre-installed with IIS on Windows 8. But anyway when a web application runs the first time in any browser, a message similar to the...
I have used Micro ORM for one of my projects recently and want to share my experience with such micro ORM as Dapper or Peta Poco, as well as compare them with such ORM tools as EntityFramework or NHibernate. When talking about micro ORM it usually does not matter...
Window PowerShell provides a number of helpful CmdLets for managing windows services, such as New-ServiceGet-ServiceRestart-ServiceResume-ServiceSet-ServiceStart-ServiceStop-ServiceSuspend-Service And create a new Windows Service using PowerShell...
Over the years of working as a .NET software developer, I noticed that I use the same IIS rewrite rules over and over again on different projects to solve the same business problems. Below I share examples of the most useful IIS rewrite rules which I use. Keep all...
