The Stupid Problem You are working on a database that you are not very familiar with as a developer – meaning that you are not […]
NuGet package references are not found after getting latest from a new branch in TFS
NuGet is incredibly fragile and brittle One of the reasons I don’t like using NuGet together with TFS is that it always manages to get […]
Using the WCF Test Client without Visual Studio
Introduction There are times when you need to use the WCF test client in places where Visual Studio is not installed, namely a production server […]
Toilet tank fill valve is hissing
Don’t change your toilet tank fill valve just yet Most of the posts I have seen about this automatically assume that you have to replace […]
Copy and zip up IIS Logs newer than a certain date
This script will actually work for anything of the form “Copy stuff from static location and zip it up using PowerShell”, however the focus for […]
Camtasia 8.6 throws C++ Runtime error when importing MOV files
The frustrating problem Upon creating a new project and attempting to import an MOV file you can get an error that reads: Microsoft Visual C++ […]
Migrated off of Blogger
This is the new home for the former dyslexicanaboko.blogspot.com blogger site I opened up initially. Please excuse me as I am still configuring this WordPress site […]
How to bake Jachnun
I’m not an expert on this I am not an expert on doing this, but I did it this weekend and it came out great. […]
MVC CSHTML partial view loses all syntax highlighting/color during rename operation; then copy, cut or paste operations cause Visual Studio errors to be thrown
Obscure problem This was a weird one and as weird problems go with Visual Studio – they always happen out of the blue and when […]
A very simplistic explanation of events in C#
Introduction If you just want to see the code involved, go to the end of this article. I am really writing this for myself because […]