WCF Asynchronous Service Methods and Timeouts Gotcha
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 are just my opinions and I am open to conversation...
Service Unavailable: HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. – Your Application + SSRS + Reports folder = obscure mess
Introduction Wow… another error message that tells you NOTHING! This error message reads: Service Unavailable: HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. I need to start off by saying that 503 ...
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 on or off; and it most definitely is not easy to...
Windows Service Installer Error 1001: Cannot start service on computer %1 is not a valid Win32 application
Problem I was working on a windows service I haven’t looked at in ages. We recently updated some dlls that broke the windows service, so it needed to be re-tweaked. Every time I tried running th...
Setting Up WCF with Windows Authentication
Introduction Configuring WCF to do anything for the first time is very time consuming, frustrating and just generally a hassle. My coworker and I mucked through this wonderful WCF configuration experi...
HTTP Error 503. The Service is unavailable.
This error reads: Service Unavailable – HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. I’d like to open up by saying what we are all thinking when this happens, “YEAH NO SHIT!” Ok...
ASUS Com Service (atkexComSvc.exe) Memory Leak Work Around
The Problem So I have noticed after leaving my fairly new PC on (only about 6-9 months old now) for about a week, I was losing a tremendous amount of memory and I couldn’t account for where it w...
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 as humanly possible while playing games. I close all open applications, but what d...