Category: Microsoft
Microsoft’s Web Application Stress tool
It’s a tool that provides you an easy way to simulate large numbers of users against your web app, which makes it possible for one to make intelligent decisions about hardware and software load incurred by your application and how much traffic a given machine or group of machines can handle. In case you need…
IntelliAdmin Network Administrator
Network Administrator is a nifty little tool for IT Administrators in small to medium-sized environments. So, what can it do you ask? Well, according to the publisher of this tool, it can: Validate installation of 2007 Daylight Saving Patch. It can detect ours, and Microsoft’s patch Push out and apply 2007 Daylight Saving patch to…
Run Linux apps on Windows or OS X with Lina
This month a California-based startup plans to release an application that will allow Windows, Mac, and Linux users to run Linux binaries without any modifications. Lina is a Linux virtual machine that allows users to run applications with the native look of their host operating system. It also lets you install applications with a mouse-click,…
Resetting Primary Key counter in SQL Server
To reseed/reset the IDENTITY column of an SQL Server table, run the following in Query Analyzer or SQL Server Management Studio: DBCC CHECKIDENT (Table_Name, RESEED, 1) Peace!
Outlook 2007 IMAP auto purge option
Just in case you encounter problems permanently deleting e-mails in Outlook 2007 on an IMAP server, make sure you have the Purge items when switching folders while online option checked (see screenshot below). What happened was when I tried deleting e-mails, the e-mails would just have a strikethrough line, but would still be present in…
Bind an XMLDataSource to a GridView control
On one of my ASP.NET 2.0 projects, I had to use an XML file as the data source for a GridView control. The problem was that I had never used this method before. But after doing some research, I found it to be very similar (and straightforward) to binding to a database – with the…