There are times when you need to capture a W3WP memory dump when the process stops responding. However, the process might stop responding in the middle of the night or early morning which is not the best time to manually take a memory dump. You can configure Procdump to execute and capture a memory dump […]
Read More →If you recall in a previous article I created a treeview class with checkboxes here. I expanded on that later to include images here. I realized that I had set the IsExpanded property of the treeview within a setter for my treeview resources with a value of True. This meant that all nodes within the […]
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I was in a meeting where we had a discussion about keeping the modifications made to a database synchronized with the NHibernate mappings. Some said that there was a method called Validate() which just needed to be run and that all that was needed. I was right, it would turn out to be skeptical of […]
Read More →An important step which is often overlooked when beginning the process of mapping your database is to set the Build Action to Embedded Resource. (Buildvorgang – Eingebettete Resource). If you forget to do this you may receive a QuerySynataxException stating that the … is not mapped [from …]. It is also possible to store the […]
Read More →This is a pretty easy one to solve. This happens because the column attribute in the mapping file does not exist on the database being accessed. <property name=”SpelledWrong” column=”SPELLDWRONG” type=”string” /> More than likely there is a spelling mistake or the column doesn’t exist on the table being mapped.
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Web Deploy is a very powerful tool with lots of features, one of which is the ability to synchronize file between a source and 1-n destination servers. So, from web farm perspective, you can apply all of your code modifications to a single server and then use Web Deploy to move those files to other […]
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I attended TechReady15 and took part in a session from Mark Russinovich, the creator of Process Monitor and many if not all of the System Internals tools. He mentioned that there is no problem which Process Monitor cannot be used to help resolve. I put that to the test when I received the error message, […]
Read More →I am migrating all my articles to this site. I wrote this one long ago and posting here for historical reasons. I hope you enjoy it. After creating my Windows Phone application I wanted to test out how difficult or easy it would be to port that to a Windows 8 Store App. After some […]
Read More →Setting up Application Initialization is pretty straight forward. Instructions can be found here or here. After setting it up the Application Initialization module with these parameters: autoStart = True startMode = AlwaysRunning when IIS was restarted the W3WP worker process was started up and running just as expected. Figure 1 shows a Process Explorer Properties […]
Read More →503’s are challenging HTTP status codes to resolve. Sometimes they happen what appears to be random and other times they are shutting down your entire website. When you see a 503 in your HTTP Error log or IIS Logs randomly I like to recommend that the default setting of the application pool recycle be changed. […]
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