MySQL has a really useful command called SHOW TABLES. It lists you all the tables available in the connected database. Unfortunately Microsoft SQL Server doesn’t have such a useful shorthand […]
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 […]
JetBrain’s TeamCity is a pretty decent Continuous Integration Server. It’s my go-to CI Server of choice. I’ve set it up in a number of workplaces and convinced a few companies […]
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 […]
Databases are often a critical part of most applications today. But how do you go about storing them for Source Control purposes? There are a number of approaches – the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]