Asynchronous Methods in WCF I have tested WCF asynchronous service methods on several occasions and I have come to a few conclusions. These of course […]
WCF Security: Requiring Authorization to lock down your Exposed Services
Introduction WCF Security is definitely not something that can be picked up easily. It isn’t plug and play or something that can simply be turned […]
How to get all files modified for a work item in TFS
Introduction Just like everything that requires coding with (or against?) TFS API – this was not a small task. This took a while for me […]
SSRS Windows Integrated Security: Login failed for user ‘NT AUTHORITYANONYMOUS LOGON’
The Overly Complicated Problem I spent about 2 days trying to figure this problem out, until we had some professional help step in to help […]
The attempt to connect to the report server failed. Check your connection information and that the report server is a compatible version. The request failed with HTTP status 404: Not Found.
Screenshot of Error in the Report Viewer This error reads: The attempt to connect to the report server failed. Check your connection information and that […]
How to Kill all Processes for a Specific Database
Usually you would just use the Activity Monitor like shown below… The mundane repetition of right click each process and selecting Kill Process becomes annoying […]
Easy Way to Start/Stop SQL Server on a Multipurpose Machine
I have been doing a lot of development on my gaming machine and as all gamers know, you want to have as much free RAM […]
How to get Filename and File Extension from a Column with tSQL
I have written this query like 100 times, but this time I am going to document it so I don’t lose it again. This query […]
SQL Server: String or binary data would be truncated.
Msg 8152, Level x, State x, Line x String or binary data would be truncated. What does this mean? This is the equivalent of SQL […]
WSE: Server unavailable, please try later
This is an amazing gotcha that had me almost throw my computer off the sixth floor of my building. First to narrow down the steps […]