When you publish an ASP.NET website using Visual Studio it will give you a pre-compiled site. This process of pre-compilation does various actions on the ASPX pages. Files are treated differently. There are various reasons why you would want to pre-compile your ASP.NET site. If you need more details on that you could go here or here.   Now when you have a pre-compiled site, there are a few problems you run up against. For example you run into issues with Global.asax and I have read s... [More]

Scenario: You have a SQL Server, and plenty of databases. Time progresses, and you started using another Disk OR Partition. Let's say you want to know how much space is being taken by all the Databases put together. OR better still, you want to get the details of all the Databases at one shot and not via that Right-Click->Properties thingy... Here is what could help you...     Go to SQL Query Analyzer window and ensure that Results to Text (CTRL + T) option is selected.  ... [More]

To keep your Hard Drive in shape, you need to delete unnecessary files and defragment it at regular intervals. The challenge is, how to find out which folders are taking the major chunk (without going into each of the folder manually and looking at the file sizes)? I wrote this very basic utility to show exactly this information... Download the EXE...   To do download the code (and modify it if you wish ) hit the Download button below...   This is how it looks like...     U... [More]

I was pretty surprised to see that WLW was NOT getting setup on Windows Server 2008. While trying to set it up on my Win 2k8, which I am using as my desktop I was getting the following error... --------------------------- Windows Live Installer --------------------------- Sorry, Windows Live programs cannot be installed on Windows Server, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, or Windows operating systems earlier than Windows XP Service Pack 2. --------------------------- OK
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